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5th March is paperback publication day for Unkind - on how #BeKind might not, in fact, be making everyone more kind. Order it here! geni.us/UnkindOrder
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“I’d like us, as a sex class, instead of being taught to feel alienated not just from one another, but our own life stages, to feel that connection, that real sense of pride of belonging to the human-making class.”
Victoria Smith brings her insight to the panel discussion Has Feminism Made Women More Free?
Come and join the discussion at Feminism: What’s the Point? 2026.
Tickets available via the pinned post on our profile.
See you there…
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Just like every friend group is full of unique personalities, every physical body is wonderfully different!
My Body is Me! celebrates those differences and helps children build a healthy foundation for self-acceptance alongside their peers. mybodyisme.com/product/my-bo…
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Jun 12
It’s not ‘anti-hijab’ - they were wearing the hijab correctly and still arrested.
The point of the protests is that the Taliban’s chokehold on women (despite adhering to their rules) is unbearable. They don’t want women to exist in the public sphere.
That’s why they protest.
Jun 11
The Taliban are hunting down women who took part in rare anti-hijab protests in Afghanistan, The Telegraph can reveal.
Read more about the methods they're employing ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Jun 12
Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.
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Jun 12
[Greggs - one sausage roll remaining]
"... And a sausage roll, please"
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I wrote about 'Believe in Magic', mothers who induce or exaggerate illness in children and how hard it is to actually do anything about it glosswitch.substack.com/p/fa…
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Introducing the speakers for the panel discussion: ‘Has feminism made women more free?’
Joining us at our first national conference on 5th July are…
- Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1
- Susanna Rustin @SusannaRustin
- Victoria Smith @glosswitch
- Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan
The legal and social barriers that once limited our lives have largely been dismantled. We have the right to work, own property, start businesses, borrow money, participate in public life without male approval.
But what has that freedom delivered in practice? For younger women, is life more free than it was for their mothers, or have new pressures and constraints emerged?
Come and listen to the panel discuss women’s freedom and whether contemporary feminism is delivering on its promises.
Link to ticket sales in the next post:
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Jun 11
"Back at my hotel, a middle-aged German man tells me he’s here to visit the Banksy museum, and the red light area. “I’ve given up on women,” he says. When I point out that he’s travelled across a border to be with one, he says: “That’s different. They don’t argue with you, the ones you pay.”"
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Jun 10
Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles
Jun 10
JUST IN: Redditor claims he can now “use ChatGPT” in his head & accurately predict what it would say.
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RT @FiLiA_charity: Thank you to @glosswitch for writing such a fantastic piece for @TheCriticMag about our research: Life near Strip Clubs…
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Jun 10
A short thread of truth bombs dropped by Mary Ann Stephenson of the EHRC to MPs yesterday.
"It is not us making the law, it is us explaining what the law requires"
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"It's better to define all women by gender stereotypes than by sex because if you do the latter, some of them might briefly, accidentally be defined by gender stereotypes"
Yesterday, I questioned the Chair of the EHRC about the new Code of Practice, and the harm it poses to trans people and others who do not conform to gender stereotypes.
The Code suggests employees of a business or a service should enforce restrictions based on evidence such as “the individual’s physique or physical appearance, behaviour or concerns raised by other service users.” When asked to specify what these would be, the Chair couldn't answer and instead spoke about “common sense”.
The truth is that people would be relying on gender stereotypes, which are harmful not only for trans people but for others as well.
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Jun 9
Throughout all this Mary-Ann Stephenson remained a class act: on top of her brief, unflappable and clear.
The law is the law, everyone knows what sex they are, and other people can usually tell too. People can be expected to follow rules, and women's rights matters.
1/ I went to Parliament to watch the Women and Equalities Committee. The chair of the EHRC Mary-Ann Stephenson (MAS) and CEO John Kirkpatrick were giving evidence, the other adults in the room were Rosie Duffield and Rebecca Paul MP. Other than that it was the slow kid's table.
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Watch this if you have yet to find your spirit animal. She speaks for many of us:
Scientists discovered that octopuses sometimes punch fish for seemingly no reason at all
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A mother’s work has enormous value | Letter - agree with every word of this theguardian.com/society/2026…
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Jun 9
🚨 Family courts are failing women and children. The evidence is undeniable.
New @RighttoEquality report finds 72.5% of judgments in domestic abuse cases contain judicial victim-blaming. 530 instances — mostly from judges. Mothers discredited, their trauma trivialised, rape myths repeated, abusers excused while their behaviour is minimised.
This isn’t “neutrality”. It’s institutional misogyny that puts kids at risk and re-traumatises survivors.
The report lands in Parliament TODAY.
Enough secrecy. Enough bias. Enough judges marking their own homework.
Read the full Guardian exposé:
theguardian.com/law/2026/jun…
The book for those who've lived it: The System Is The Weapon amzn.eu/d/02oGEAlh
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Over a decade ago I wrote about universities not being a safe space for feminism. Students (and academics) who don't want their misogynistic and homophobic beliefs challenged aren't following in some great tradition of standing up to the Man newstatesman.com/politics/20…
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It's like pretending the male students who threw endless mantrums about women entering higher education were the same as students protesting the Vietnam war.
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Jun 8
“If ending misogyny is a serious political priority, politicians cannot keep pretending that objectification for fun … is no big deal”
🦊|✒️| @glosswitch
thecritic.co.uk/stop-selling…
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Jun 8
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic, writes @glosswitch, but it is the right thing to do
thecritic.co.uk/stop-selling…
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