Allison Bailey
9 posts todayRT @womensart1: Camila Pinheiro, contemporary Brazilian illustrator born in São Paulo, known for her colourful compositions and highlighting of female figures #WomensArt https://t.co/0necHC...
Allison Bailey
9 posts todayRT @womensart1: 'Snow starlings' by contemporary UK printmaker Niki Bowers #WomensArt https://t.co/blKLdS...
Allison Bailey
9 posts todayRT @jo_bartosch: Someone just reminded me of this, which I wrote a couple of years ago, about the move towards medicalising kids to make the 'normal.' Prob the most personal piece I've ever written, and I'm still pleased with it ...
Allison Bailey
9 posts todayRT @jo_bartosch: Being a very short woman has many downsides, but it’s given me a strong sense of solidarity with others whose bodies mark them out as different. We are constantly policed. Really interesting thread from a tall woman. ...
Allison Bailey
9 posts todayRT @hankakulikowska: 🧵Female Masculinity🧵 1/ Average person would consider me masculine. Not in a radical feminist understanding of masculinity being a set of behaviours and ways that uphold male supremacy; but in the common understanding of it. ...
Allison Bailey
9 posts todayThe former head of education at Stonewall @wesstreeting started out speaking some sense on trans issues & defended JKR - but then he got spooked & said something very silly & wholly inaccurate: 'prominent feminists' are being abusive too. ...
Allison Bailey
9 posts todayRT @Docstockk: This is not the progressive organisation you think it is. Nor is it the safe pair of hands you imagine, looking after the interests of all the LGBT family. It thinks males can be lesbians, and its leader tells women that wanting to ...
Allison Bailey
9 posts today1/ The furore surrounding the number of women prosecuted for rape in 2012-18 illustrates why we need sex specific data. In 2011, of the 2,663 people proceeded against for rape of a female in England & Wales, EIGHT of the accused were female. http ...
Allison Bailey
9 posts today1/ There has been no sudden explosion in the number of females prosecuted for committing rape, as co-conspirators to men. 2012-18 recorded 436 'women' prosecuted for rape. In 2011, MoJ figures recorded ZERO women prosecuted for rape. https://t.co/Ms ...