Losing Janey is a heartbreaking one, but thereโs no time to fuck about. Itโs now our job to call Trump a c*nt at any given opportunity.
A little tribute from me, some random idiot that was shocked to find she was following me when I first started making video content during lockdown.
For some reason Scottish comics seem to like me, I think itโs all the fucking swearing. Janey was always very supportive of my content, I was amazed when I discovered her following me in my early days of Twitter because her videos were comedy gold. As a proud independence supporter she fucking hated the Tories too, she knew what it was like to grow up poor, she was also open about the adversity sheโd faced. I admired and respected her very much.
Janey was hilarious, her voiceovers of the pandemic briefings brought people a bit of hope at a truly miserable time. She was kind and always stuck up for those being treated terribly, especially the trans community and consequently faced vile trolling from vicious transphobes online even as she lay dying in a hospice because there is no low those people wonโt stoop to.
She clearly had a strong disdain of injustice evident in how open and vulnerable she was about things sheโd faced in her life including abuse. Sheโd go on to find the unbelievable courage to fight to get her abuser jailed only for the judge to give him a paltry two years. She was also open about the awful murder of her mother. Her material actually even left her homeless when she poked fun at her in laws. Her book and documentary is a story of survival and overcoming unimaginable horrors.
Undeterred she joked about abuse, her in laws allegedly being connected to criminals, her mum being murdered, her chaotic upbringing. Even when other comics told her she shouldnโt.
She was fearless to the end. She lived life on her own terms until the end. She refused to be silenced until the end, like a fucking legend.
Now if youโll excuse me Iโm off to have a big ugly cry.
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