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Dr Rachel Broady

@drrachelbroady.bsky.social

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Working class feminist academic. Research focus: epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism & representations of poverty in journalism. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer long before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · Nov 15

A thread of my work researching how the media, particularly journalism, talks about people in poverty. First up, why I'm frustrated at how poverty is reported. www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

"Why I'm frustrated at how poverty is reported in the media"

Media, Journalism, Reporting, Society, Poverty, Social Justice, Research

www.ljmu.ac.uk

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 44m

Stewart Lee's description of X as 'an algorithmically amplified digital dogfighting pit presided over by a ketamine-cranked egomaniac' is perfect.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 47m

Interesting. "The Nerve is a fearless, female-founded media title set up by a collective of five former Guardian and Observer journalists who believe that the UK needs more truly independent journalism."
www.thenerve.news/about-us

About Us | The Nerve

Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech

www.thenerve.news

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1h

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2h

If that's cheating then I'm a cheat too. My cat loves the heater.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2h

The temptation to put the heating on is strong.

a cartoon scene from finding nemo with a purple octopus and a purple fish .

ALT: a cartoon scene from finding nemo with a purple octopus and a purple fish .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 3h

Prioritising the rights of men who wish they were the opposite sex is misogyny.

The lack of imagination in prioritising men over women, socially, legislatively, politically, is misogyny.

There are other ways to protect trans identifying people without destroying women's rights!

I'm so sick of it.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 3h

Road now much less travelled socially, legislatively, politically ...

Women are pushed into an intermediate zone if single sex facilities abolished. One we fought for centuries to escape.

Women's human rights are breached by redefining our sex class.

Women are entitled to Equality Act protections

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 4h

I'm wary of some accounts online. There is evidence of utter contempt and violence, or threats of, outside social nedua but I think some anonymous online accounts deliberately create hostility.

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 8h

A quick (incomplete) list of reasons I challenge "trans rights activism" as it currently manifests ...

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 9h

I'm bored of the argument that women defending single-sex spaces for privacy, dignity, safety is 'segregation': what a sexist, racist, ahistorical assumption! I'm bored of the conflation of trans people and people with sex development disorders: more theft & arrogance!

All this and male violence!

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 9h

I'm so bored of their self-pity, of their rewriting women's history, their embracing of sexist stereotypes, the arrogant claims men can extend the meaning of womanhood, the assumption women have to make space for men, that women must be human shields, their failure to demand anything from other men.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 22h

Clear evidence that Supreme Court clarification on sex in Equality Act did not stop trans people challenging experiences of harassment & discrimination. Trans identifying men can actually be protected under sex category *and* gender reassignment category.

Women *needed* sex category clarification!

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

Is Trump asleep at Knesset?

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

"Anger is a natural response to injustice ..." but we'll not condemn violence against women who met to find solidarity and to challenge their own injustice.

Women's experience of injustice is because of our sex, since time immemorial. Bash Back and Trans Pride are misogynists.

Piss off.

Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 4d

Statement from Trans Pride Brighton.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

They couldn't care less, not even about Jewish women. Jane Clare Jones is right: they're 'whipped up outrage merchants'.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

Vile.

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Red and green-ish @redandgreenish.bsky.social · 2d

I am *shocked* to read that the Male Allies Challenging Sexism event wasn't targeted by TRAs, even though they make the same arguments when it comes to gender ID ideology.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

Their determination to undermine the conference is the same as the TRAs they hate.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

Moonlighting is streaming on STV.

a person is pressing a button that says ' blade mode ' on it

ALT: a person is pressing a button that says ' blade mode ' on it

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

For 'the flag of Hamas' he means the flag of Palestine. I wonder if he thinks the St George Cross is the flag of Labour? Anyway, who's he to judge women and comment on women's meetings?!

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

There are right wing "GC Ultras," who claim to defend women's rights, all over X today, ganging up on and insulting the looks of women they dismiss as "socfem". It's all so pathetic ... and really misogynistic.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 3d

Nelson's friend needed support for addiction; such support defunded in UK over decades.

Denying addicts benefits - money! - will create hungry, homeless addicts. Threatening hunger and homelessness unless they get help will create stressed addicts.

Stop burdening individuals with societal issues.

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 3d

Why should we? Even she didn't manage that! 😄

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 3d

Mariam Elsayeh, a freelance journalist and elected member of NUJ Ethics Council, has been subjected to a two-year campaign of intimidation for her professional work covering pro-Palestine protests and her public advocacy for Palestinian journalists in London.
skylineforhuman.org/en/news/deta...

Journalist Mariam Elsayeh faces escalating offline and digital threats

SIHR has documented an alarming campaign of of physical attacks, incitement to violence and onlie hate speech targeting journalist Mariam Elsayeh due to her coverage of pro-Palestine protests in Londo...

skylineforhuman.org

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not interested in brownie points. I’m interested in defending women’s rights.

The only bullshit is from people defending male violence against women.

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