Helen (Sweary Nana)

🇮🇪 Lesbian. Great-grandmother. Donegal. Every sort of atheist. LGB✂️TQ+ 💜🤍💚 Can't believe we are having to fight for this shit all over again 🤬

[Helen (Sweary Nana) @justdontstartme]

6 years later, still 👌

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[Ronni Nicole #KPSS @RonniNicole1]

Ireland

"Norma Foley launches gender equality plan with a whimper, not a bang

Minister’s decision to launch her report during the peak of summer doesn’t inspire confidence in government’s determination to help Irish women and girls"

Times
https://t.co/pxJjtwUzOf

[Helen (Sweary Nana) @justdontstartme]

@SeeRedWoman1 My Gracie ❤️

[Labi Siffre @labisiffre]

No matter who wins the continuing front page PR battle as to who is the most discriminated against group on the planet, globally "Misogyny-driven lethal violence against women and girls results in a significantly higher absolute number of annual deaths than racism, antisemitism, homophobia, or ableism". The lethal War Against Women continues. The clearly intentional refusal to focus on that detail continues.
Claims that it's mainly in other countries with other religions is just another example of us, men, globally letting ourselves off the hook. The evidence is hidden in plain sight. The in our faces fact conveniently never makes it to the front page.
Fact check or just shrug and walk on by. Ask in your browser, "Is it true that misogyny results in a significantly higher absolute number of annual deaths than racism, antisemitism, homophobia, or ableism?" It's easy to do and then check on how that is reflected in the media (overwhelmingly owned by men).
And who is responsible for this deadly war against The Female? Clearly: The Male.
But we guys don't have to worry. We have a get-out. Collective responsibility is vehemently rejected, globally. So we don't have to worry. We can continue with, "None of us individually can be blamed, and "I don't personally behave like that". Don't worry, those self-serving mantras will never die.
On the other hand we could demand those figures take their rightful place on the daily front pages and news-casts and social media outlets and as a result, rightly, in all our minds.
#TheWarAgainstWomen #misogyny #murder #racism #antisemitism #homophobia #ableism #Public Relations

[Paddy O'Gorman @paddyjogorman]

I can’t praise @RoisinMichaux enough for her courage here and her political savvy. Awesome political activism.

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

"Did you consider coming out in defence of those women, at all?"

I asked Mary Lou McDonald and the Lord Mayor of Belfast (both of @sinnfeinireland) about the exclusion of Women's Rights Network Northern Ireland from this year's Féile festival in West Belfast. @ni_wrn

[Helen (Sweary Nana) @justdontstartme]

@prof_curiosity1 Can't wait! ❤️

[WRN NI @ni_wrn]

🎟️ Tickets Are Now On Sale! 🎟️

Join us for Respect, Rights & Reality on Tuesday 4th August.

🕚 11:00am - 12:30pm
📍 Belfast City Centre (exact venue details will be shared with ticket holders closer to the event)

Bringing together speakers from across the north and south of Ireland and Europe, this event will explore women’s rights, free speech and democracy.

Tickets are £5, helping us cover the additional costs of hosting the event.

Tickets are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.

🎟️ Book your place here:
https://t.co/akkEBMViLg

We look forward to seeing you on 4th August. 💜🤍💚

[WRN NI @ni_wrn]

We welcome this view from Chief Commissioner Geraldine McGahey and the @EqualityCommNI

It firmly supports our perspective that no one should be silenced or discriminated against because they have sex realist views.

It clarifies some very important points:

1. The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (‘FETO’) "prohibits discrimination and harassment against employees" and "service users on the grounds of the protected religious beliefs or political opinions that they hold, do not hold, or express."

2. It is "misleading and wrong" to suggest that "people who hold protected ‘gender critical beliefs'...are not entitled to hold those beliefs or should not be able to express them...".

3. It has been recognised in NI that "...‘gender critical beliefs’ were a protected ‘political opinion’ for the purposes of an employment-related claim under FETO." Thanks to Sara's case @SeeRedWoman1

4. "Employers and service providers should be...supported to ensure that their policies...are operating in a way that affords everyone dignity while at work or accessing services."

Should you feel you are being discriminated against in work or by a service provider for your legally protected sex realist views please do reach out to ECNI for support. We are here to support as well, please reach out.

https://t.co/sqJtbYktTx

[Iseult @iseult]

The NI equality commissioner has spoken. Calling women who believe sex is material “far right” encourages harassment.

“Commentary that encourages harassment of people because of such beliefs is especially dangerous and must be condemned”
https://t.co/kFuapT5P07

[Helen (Sweary Nana) @justdontstartme]

@SeeRedWoman1 Love this thread. The perfect pillow is one of my obsessions. I'll have to bookmark 😂

[Helen (Sweary Nana) @justdontstartme]

@jk_rowling @miroirdufou @AmnestyUK Love it "unimpeachable rectitude"! The rest is spot on too! ❤️ HB Queen ❤️

[WRN Heather Binning #RespectMySex 💚🤍💜 @HeatherB_WRN]

I am disappointed but not surprised that the men of the Feile team took to social media to gloat and crow about their intransigence. There was no win for them and representing it that way is disingenuous.

WRN wished for Feile to WANT to reinstate our panel discussion rather than be FORCED to.

However despite cancelling our event, Feile provided us with a platform far bigger than merely west Belfast to get our message heard across Northern Ireland and further afield. Conversations about whether women have the right to speak openly and honestly, about whether a publicly funded organisation - regardless of its origins - should ensure it represents ALL lawful viewpoints and experiences, and demonstrate for the world to see just exactly who is trying to marginalise who here.

Who knew women were such a threat!

Respect, rights and reality - I’ll buy you a dictionary.

[Helen (Sweary Nana) @justdontstartme]

@iseult Jesus christ, when will all this nonsense end?

[Granny Mary @GrannyMary59]

Another book recommended by children's books ireland is this one, more imported American gender ideology. Given the vulnerability of autistic youth when exposed to gender Ideology, I don't find this book appropriate. Tragic back story attached. Mom author had 2/3 non binary kids.

[WRN NI @ni_wrn]

Statement:

[Helen (Sweary Nana) @justdontstartme]

@RoisinMichaux EWWWW NOOO!

[GaelsForFairPlay @GaelsFairPlay]

The fact that Féile an Phobail was successful in censoring women confirms only that Féile an Phobail was successful in censoring women.
The fact that the inclusion of males in female sport denies women and girls fairness, safety, dignity and privacy remains - unchanged and irrefutable.
Na Mná Abú ❤️

[Ronni Nicole #KPSS @RonniNicole1]

"Granddaughter of Amnesty founder: I wouldn’t donate a single penny

Iseult White, whose grandfather co-founded the human rights campaign group , says he would be appalled with its stance on gender-critical organisations"

Times
https://t.co/GIzGAXpHRX

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

In light of newly discovered information showing that Amnesty International UK had already defamed Beira's Place before its recent hastily withdrawn report, lawyers for Beira's Place have written to Amnesty again.

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[Laoise de Brún | Barrister | Seanad Candidate @laoisedebrun]

We pay Scandi-style taxes for Somali-style services. The squandering of our money is unconscionable. No one is held accountable because no one is accountable. There is no named person whose job it is to delivered universal healthcare or a metro or train to the airport, the children’s or maternity hospital. So much money wasted on consultants and nothing ever delivered. People are happy to pay high taxes if they can see where their money goes. In modern Ireland it feels like it goes into a black hole.