Language Is Important

'The Dementia Darnings' a series of large scale embroidered portraits of the mother of artist Jenni Dutton, creating an intimate insight into the perspective of a carer, the aging process and the #mother-daughter relationship #WomensArt

Apparently, forcing unmarried mothers to give up their babies reached its peak in 1968 with 16000 women losing their babies to adoption - overseen by the church. I was born in 1968 after a ‘shotgun’ wedding to someone unsuitable - a no-win situation for many women.

An Easter read...

It's time that the ONS admits it screwed up the sex and gender questions on the census. Garbage in; garbage out.

In just two days @Riley_Gaines_ followers on twitter have gone from 80k to over 330k & growing, because people want to hear what she has to say whilst standing up & talking about her first hand experience. She wants female rights to safe spaces & fair sport based on actual quantifiable biology not a feeling which can’t be proved & can be changed over night. Sex discrimination is very real & sadly growing. We must fight back. Be heard, be seen, say no! There must be room for all (we can add/change classifications) but safe & fair must come first. And females deserve as many rights as males get. Trans identifying males don’t get to trump female rights. And abuse must not be tolerated, ever.

“It remains extraordinary that in a context where campaigners have tried to intimidate people into adopting their worldview on pain of being tarred a bigot, women have been vilified for the moderate opinion shared by many that sex remains relevant…” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Jo Phoenix touched on the tragedies and indignities that have befallen pregnant and birthing women in prison in recent years.

The inevitable consequence of the ONS’s policy capture by the trans lobby - a silly census question that elicits meaningless answers.

Men cannot tell us who we are

The strongest predictor of the transgender population across 331 local authorities, as measured by the census, is the proportion of people whose main language is not English.

So male amateurs get well paid to advertise sports bras, and female professionals get dropped when they get pregnant.

Remember girls, you are disgusting and virulently transphobic if you don't want to undress in front of the opposite sex or be exposed to male genitalia without giving consent. Oh, you want fair competition? Transphobe! Now the question is, would he ever say this to my face?

Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed in a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #WomensArt One of the many true stories in the @womensart1 book

Medics are coming under increasing pressure to monitor “gender” rather than sex in their research, despite the obvious medical importance of sex.

God some of these people are thick. Marx was a materialist. When I left the Guardian I described my view as materialism. Marx said ‘social being determines consciousness’. Engels also says ideas don’t determine reality. This is why gender ideology is inherently right wing.

''I am in the world to change the world'' Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) #WomensArt