Tashmia Owen
@tashmiaowen.bsky.social
Campaigner, Artist, Film, things that go bump, VAWG. Words @sisterhood @anotherlenz @WritersOfColour @galdemzine @womensrepublic AuDHD Cancer Survivor
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Did anyone on the production team pause to consider the narrative consequences of that? Did they think, "Hey! Wasn't a big part of the original debate here about whether a privileged white author was persistently centering herself and aggressively adopting a victim pose in response to criticism?" 3/
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Did anyone on the production team pause to consider the narrative consequences of that? Did they think, "Hey! Wasn't a big part of the original debate here about whether a privileged white author was persistently centering herself and aggressively adopting a victim pose in response to criticism?" 3/
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God, the whole article is so deeply dishonest. Clanchy's book was "suddenly derided" - no mention that the "sudden" trigger was Clanchy loudly demanding an obscure Goodreads review be taken down b/c of racist quotes she claimed were made up, prompting everyone to check and find out they were genuine
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
God, the whole article is so deeply dishonest. Clanchy's book was "suddenly derided" - no mention that the "sudden" trigger was Clanchy loudly demanding an obscure Goodreads review be taken down b/c of racist quotes she claimed were made up, prompting everyone to check and find out they were genuine
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Whenever I see the tide turning against a popular actress I wonder which powerful man she turned down
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Whenever I see the tide turning against a popular actress I wonder which powerful man she turned down
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Emily Maitlis seems unable to apply the same standard to her (or the media's, more generally) coverage of "trans issues" 🤔
In fact, it's worse than that. Her starting point is simply that healthcare experts are wrong, for #reasons, and she and her fellow GC journos are brave for pointing it out.
In fact, it's worse than that. Her starting point is simply that healthcare experts are wrong, for #reasons, and she and her fellow GC journos are brave for pointing it out.
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Emily Maitlis seems unable to apply the same standard to her (or the media's, more generally) coverage of "trans issues" 🤔
In fact, it's worse than that. Her starting point is simply that healthcare experts are wrong, for #reasons, and she and her fellow GC journos are brave for pointing it out.
In fact, it's worse than that. Her starting point is simply that healthcare experts are wrong, for #reasons, and she and her fellow GC journos are brave for pointing it out.
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please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures
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When you think other people are your “growth opportunities” or “lessons you lose all concept of it”
what happened to the concept of shame
When I was 37 I was dating a woman who was 19. The thing that inspired me to break things off was hearing Pearl Jam's "Alive" on the radio - a song released 9 years before her birth she had never heard . In that moment I realized things would never work.
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
When you think other people are your “growth opportunities” or “lessons you lose all concept of it”
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SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
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Listen. We all need to agree to block any user who makes or shares memes about Epstein.
The last thing we need is to be surrounded by rape jokes with a visual component.
The last thing we need is to be surrounded by rape jokes with a visual component.
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Listen. We all need to agree to block any user who makes or shares memes about Epstein.
The last thing we need is to be surrounded by rape jokes with a visual component.
The last thing we need is to be surrounded by rape jokes with a visual component.
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Fatma is trying to take care of the older parents of her and her husband and her grandfather- they all have significant health concerns. They are all living in a tent with her extended family.
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Fatma. Fatma and her husband had a small grocery store before the war which was destroyed along with their home. She is taking care of her daughter Lolo, 4 as well as their parents and Fatma’s grandfather all of whom have health challenges
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Fatma is trying to take care of the older parents of her and her husband and her grandfather- they all have significant health concerns. They are all living in a tent with her extended family.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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Take all the shareholders and the execs as well
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Take all the shareholders and the execs as well
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Holy shit Mamdani has been winning since he was a little kid
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Holy shit Mamdani has been winning since he was a little kid
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As part of the Warm Winter campaign,🙏😔🌹 $50 was donated to clothe four children. We still need $2000. Whoever can donate, I swear we've lost everything we own. Share, spread the word, donate. I'll leave the link here.🙏🫂
@mommunism.bsky.social
@lillywachowski.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/144545
@mommunism.bsky.social
@lillywachowski.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/144545
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
As part of the Warm Winter campaign,🙏😔🌹 $50 was donated to clothe four children. We still need $2000. Whoever can donate, I swear we've lost everything we own. Share, spread the word, donate. I'll leave the link here.🙏🫂
@mommunism.bsky.social
@lillywachowski.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/144545
@mommunism.bsky.social
@lillywachowski.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/144545
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We’re going back to where our home once stood, trying to rebuild life with a small tent to shelter us from the cold and wind.
We need $600 to set up this tent and cover our most basic needs.
Your kindness — even the smallest gift — means everything to us 🙏💔
gofund.me/35fdca7d
@mommunism.bsky.social
We need $600 to set up this tent and cover our most basic needs.
Your kindness — even the smallest gift — means everything to us 🙏💔
gofund.me/35fdca7d
@mommunism.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We’re going back to where our home once stood, trying to rebuild life with a small tent to shelter us from the cold and wind.
We need $600 to set up this tent and cover our most basic needs.
Your kindness — even the smallest gift — means everything to us 🙏💔
gofund.me/35fdca7d
@mommunism.bsky.social
We need $600 to set up this tent and cover our most basic needs.
Your kindness — even the smallest gift — means everything to us 🙏💔
gofund.me/35fdca7d
@mommunism.bsky.social
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It's wild to me that Kate Clanchy felt like she could make a living being a keen tutor to and observer of other people and yet, she seems totally unprepared to grow as a human being. Who hasn't had their unconscious prejudices challenged over their career?
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's wild to me that Kate Clanchy felt like she could make a living being a keen tutor to and observer of other people and yet, she seems totally unprepared to grow as a human being. Who hasn't had their unconscious prejudices challenged over their career?
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Glad I'm not the only one who hasn't forgotten about Kate Clanchy.
If she were teaching in Ontario she would have at the very least been suspended by the provincial regulatory body for teachers, for her harmful and racist writing.
If she were teaching in Ontario she would have at the very least been suspended by the provincial regulatory body for teachers, for her harmful and racist writing.
April 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Glad I'm not the only one who hasn't forgotten about Kate Clanchy.
If she were teaching in Ontario she would have at the very least been suspended by the provincial regulatory body for teachers, for her harmful and racist writing.
If she were teaching in Ontario she would have at the very least been suspended by the provincial regulatory body for teachers, for her harmful and racist writing.
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kate clanchy is a racist and no amount of british media whitewashing will change that.
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
kate clanchy is a racist and no amount of british media whitewashing will change that.
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This is an excellent piece on why critique-- especially of racism-- is not "cancellation": https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/13/pointing-out-racism-in-books-is-not-an-attack-kate-clanchy
Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a ...
I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate ...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:54 PM
This is an excellent piece on why critique-- especially of racism-- is not "cancellation": https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/13/pointing-out-racism-in-books-is-not-an-attack-kate-clanchy
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Ahh, the pitiful anonymous Clanchy apologists have slunk over from X, I’m sure the tube73 family are terribly proud of you for spending your time sticking up for her, Bob.
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Ahh, the pitiful anonymous Clanchy apologists have slunk over from X, I’m sure the tube73 family are terribly proud of you for spending your time sticking up for her, Bob.
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Another of Clanchy's defenders was Philip Pullman. Ignoring the clearly bigoted and discriminatory content of her book, which was accurately reported, he thought it appropriate to brand her critics the Taliban.
November 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Another of Clanchy's defenders was Philip Pullman. Ignoring the clearly bigoted and discriminatory content of her book, which was accurately reported, he thought it appropriate to brand her critics the Taliban.
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Solidarity with the true victims of this. Because Kate Clanchy and her pals are in no way the victims.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Solidarity with the true victims of this. Because Kate Clanchy and her pals are in no way the victims.
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Katie Razzal's bizarre decision to attempt to rehabilitate racist, sexist, ableist creep Kate Clanchy should haunt her.
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Katie Razzal's bizarre decision to attempt to rehabilitate racist, sexist, ableist creep Kate Clanchy should haunt her.
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Kate Clanchy is back in the news, with a multi-part series on BBC radio to sympathetically explore her 'cancellation'
this is what will be covered up again, and the racist pile-on which followed
this is what will be covered up again, and the racist pile-on which followed
I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Kate Clanchy is back in the news, with a multi-part series on BBC radio to sympathetically explore her 'cancellation'
this is what will be covered up again, and the racist pile-on which followed
this is what will be covered up again, and the racist pile-on which followed
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What happened to Kate Clanchy? She attacked an amateur book reviewer for accurately quoting her work. Then when it was proven to be accurate, set her publishing pals on people who politely critiqued her work.
It is genuinely bonkers that Clanchy has been reframed as some sort of victim.
It is genuinely bonkers that Clanchy has been reframed as some sort of victim.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What happened to Kate Clanchy? She attacked an amateur book reviewer for accurately quoting her work. Then when it was proven to be accurate, set her publishing pals on people who politely critiqued her work.
It is genuinely bonkers that Clanchy has been reframed as some sort of victim.
It is genuinely bonkers that Clanchy has been reframed as some sort of victim.
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And, the BBC have managed to wangle an actual apology (???) out of Kate Clanchy's former publisher, whom she parted ways with not long after this controversy for the "hurt" it caused her.
You'd think a journalist might follow up and ask them what about the hurt that Clanchy caused people?
You'd think a journalist might follow up and ask them what about the hurt that Clanchy caused people?
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
And, the BBC have managed to wangle an actual apology (???) out of Kate Clanchy's former publisher, whom she parted ways with not long after this controversy for the "hurt" it caused her.
You'd think a journalist might follow up and ask them what about the hurt that Clanchy caused people?
You'd think a journalist might follow up and ask them what about the hurt that Clanchy caused people?