TW: racism
My partner has just witnessed in Elys Wimbledon (a store) a white couple use a racial slur against a brown family, telling them their child is "disgusting" & telling them to "go back where you came from".
The white family were not asked to leave.
@REISS@KurtGeiger
Sophie, I really like your videos & admire your activism but as a brown woman I am incredibly uncomfortable with you as a white person casually doing political analysis of brown suffering.
What makes you an expert in the region? Seems like you read a tweet & are now an expert?
Boris Johnson, who called black Africans “picanninies,” Muslim women “letterboxes” and said the problem with Africa is that "we are not in charge any more,” releases report saying institutional racism doesn’t exist in the UK.
Folks if your workplace actively has a culture of learning pronouns, not assuming gender & taking responsibility for everyone's well-being it's literally like you stopped running a marathon and can rest. It's such a blessing. Hold your workplaces to this standard!
@CentreCourtShop my transgender girlfriend was accused of shoplifting and attacked by security in your boots today.
She was verbally assaulted by a shop manager and physicaly pushed against a wall by a security guard.
This happened while she was browsing make up.
Was physically assaulted by staff in @BootsUK in @CentreCourtShop after being wrongly accused of stealing purely on the basis of wearing a hoody and using a non-Boots carrier bag to carry my items within the store. I was yelled at, attacked and detained. I went to buy makeup...
@BootsUK my transgender girlfriend was accused of shoplifting and attacked by security in your Wimbledon branch this morning.
Was she percieved as male and seen as suspicious while browsing make up?
Why was she verbally assaulted by a manager and physicaly by security?
A security guard pushed her against a wall and then shoved her into a small room where she was held against her will while staff shouted at her continuously.
She was not trying to leave the shop and she was not trying to steal. Why was this use of force necessary?
@BootsUK my transgender girlfriend was accused of shoplifting and attacked by security in your Wimbledon branch this morning.
Was she percieved as male and seen as suspicious while browsing make up?
Why was she verbally assaulted by a manager and physicaly by security?
Why was my girlfriend pushed against a wall and shoved into a room?
Why was she yelled at by staff who were not wearing face masks?
Why was force necessary against my girlfriend?
@CentreCourtShop can you explain yourself?
Was she was percieved as male and seen as suspicious while looking at make up?
Was she percieved as younger than she is and suspected?
She is a very petite person, she was not trying to leave the shop, she certainly was not trying to steal anything, why was force necessary?