Pearl Lucia Barcoe

Photographer // Creative Humanoid//
Baile Átha Cliath // San Francisco //Swindon //

Admin @hubswindon

[Stephen Robert-Walters @imstephenrobert]

Instant legend
#LateLateToyShow

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

@AOC your "pick me" sexist response is so disappointing. This will exist forever. Men are the emotional problems since the beginning of time and you just threw women under a bus with that comment. #thegirlsarefighting

[🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🇮🇷🇨🇺Hollaria Briden, Esq. @HollyBriden]

@gtconway3d She owes all women an apology. Her internalized misogyny is disgusting!

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

@magicmadhouse can someone respond to my email about receiving a fake pokémon ETB ordered for Christmas?

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

#latelatetoyshow 3rd place trending in the UK!!!

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Sleighhh Queeeen! #LateLateToyShow

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Brian Óg is trending in the UK
Twitter!!! This is our chance lads! #LateLateToyShow

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Ok, Kneecap after that parade surely? #LateLateToyShow

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Waiting for The Kabin Crew all evening? Where's The Spark? #LateLateToyShow

[jambon jovi @ciarareddy]

The 32 counties of Ireland parade #latelatetoyshow

[Paul O’Kane @pmokane]

Paddy Kielty and his 32 county parade. Using his soft power for a United Ireland. #LateLateToyShow

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Zara watching the trolley dash girl #LateLateToyShow

[Jo🏡💚 @joannedunne_x]

Irish people on route to twitter for that one night a year 🎅🏼🎄 #LateLateToyShow

[Politically motivated graphic designer @Bennett_AWOL]

This bespoke machine has powered the rte player for the last decade

#latelatetoyshow

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Leo 🎩#latelatetoyshow

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Two Crofties on the cover 😍
@TheCroftPrimary
At last weekends fantastic first Circus Festival 🎪

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

Henry and our beautiful blossom trees are in the Spring edition of @nationaltrust magazine 🌸
@TheCroftPrimary

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

@TheCroftPrimary Henry is featured in this Springs @nationaltrust magazine about our love of the beautiful Cherry Blossoms in the Town Gardens 🌸
#blossomwatch #Springwatch

[Pearl Lucia Barcoe @OhSoOBoHo]

The Croft Primary School did a great job bringing some festive cheer to the Enchanted Gardens Light Trail yesterday evening ✨ the rain didn't dampen anyone's spirits!
@TheCroftPrimary

#swindon #whatsoninswindon #christmasmagic #southswindonparishcouncil