Following the anti feminist thread…
September 12, 2021
On 10th September – Rose Duffield MP wrote a brilliant and brave thread and in it she defended single sex spaces for female victims of male violence. The usual misogyny
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Transphobe – We found the witch, burn her!
A contextual constructionist account of the silencing of feminist discourse on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and the policy capture of transgender ideology, focusing on the potential impacts and consequences for female-only spaces for victims of male violence.
Woman on a mission
Dr Shonagh Dillon has nearly 3 decades of experience working in the MVAW (Male Violence Against Women) sector, she is the founder and CEO at Aurora New Dawn working with victims and survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking.
Events and talks
I was privileged to speak at A Women’s Place – Fighting For Women’s Services alongside Nicola Benge, Catia Freitas and Vivienne Hayes MBE. The webinar was chaired by Karen Ingala Smith.
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Recent posts
Rapists are male
September 6, 2021
(Credit to Karen Ingala Smith for the title) The wonderful Murray Blackburn Mackenzie lodged a petition with the Scottish Parliament on June 2nd 2021 to accurately record the sex of
An Open Letter to Sadiq Khan
August 20, 2021
Figure 15 Silencing Node – Consequences of Speaking Out Word Cloud (Dillon, 2021) 20/08/2021 Dear Mr Khan, I write to you in respect of yesterday’s news in both The Times and
An interview with Dr Jagbir Jhutti-Johal, OBE
August 15, 2021
Dr Jhutti-Johal is a Reader in Sikh Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. Dr Jhutti-Johal is a board member and trustee on a number of organisations and
Sex offenders in single sex spaces – where’s my movement?
August 3, 2021
On the 2nd and 3rd August 2021 respectively The Telegraph and The Times published articles on policies that allow trans identified men into women’s single sex spaces in hospitals, including
A Scottish Sister Speaks
July 24, 2021
I was lucky enough to catch up with Jessie* over Zoom, here is our conversation (obviously edited because we can both have a chat and a laugh), I hope you