The Ninja Suffragette

UK focussed feminism, politics, and news. This blog stands with transgender and queer people, people of colour, immigrants, and refugees.      

[zonky420]

i think one of the main issues with britain rn, is that we as a society are so obsessed, with "catching out" people who, "arent really disabled" or, "arent really trans" or, "dont really need benefits", that weve constructed the entire system around those things, to actively harm people who really do need help, just to get at a vanishingly small percentage of people who dont.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay

[fashion-runways]

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[mathematical-cheese]

Remember everyone in the UK who is eligible and who hasn't done so already, register to vote by the end of the 20th of April to be able to vote in the local elections in May!

[skipppppy]

So can non-disabled people stop doing that thing where they act like it’s morally righteous to force yourself to work while you’re sick and assume taking sick days automatically equates to laziness. Any time now. That’d be great

[skipppppy]

The leader of the scout group I help out at approached me out of hours while I was walking to work to tell me that people have been talking behind my back because I missed more sessions than I attended this term (on account of having Covid twice) and was like “We all show up when we’re sick because we take responsibility” and I felt really shitty and guilty and cried the whole workday then I got home and told my mum and she was like “So they want you to throw up on the kids? That’s dodgy. They don’t even pay you. Stop going” and a wave of serenity hit me like a bus

[bsaka7]

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

However much you despise Reform UK, trust me when I say it's not nearly enough.

[ceevee5]

This screenshot is from the Independent. This story was so far down the Mirror’s splash page, on mobile at least, the 36th story. I can’t find it at all on BBC News. The Guardian’s headline downplays attendance, saying “Thousands march against far right in London.”

[stuckinapril]

Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

[stuckinapril]

She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

[mintedwitcher]

read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

[arielseaworth]

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”

- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré

[mysharona1987]

[o-blivia]

If you're wondering why there's so much resistance to the idea of a 4-day work week, or why automation hasn't actually led to people working less like it was supposed to...

[medvedlet]

this is probably also why theres such a huge push against ppl still doing wfh a lot. the poor shouldnt be able to have a moment if leasure between their working day, shouldnt be able to do a laundry during their workday, freeing up some free time later. they also shouldnt be allowed to skip the commute and have more time off, no that time also belongs to the boss.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

[lightandfireandsunhavegone]

Peer Reviewed your tags, OP.

[memesforfiends]

ok bro bye

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!

[multishipperpirateking]

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..

[the-fallen-blue]

can you imagine how often you would use sign language if everyone knew it

[depsidase]

[probablymoons]

ngl some of these posts sound shortsighted so i’m pulling out the Marjane Satrapi quote:

"You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

[espanolbot2]

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former pri

Also, notable that the Palace only cut ties and the cops were called seemingly only after it became clear that Andrew had shared state secrets with Epstein (who had ties to the Russian secret service or something), not, y'know, the stuff involving Epstein was more infamously involved in.