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i don't vote and couldn't care less about ideas of left or right. what i do care about is humanity. and for anyone who cares about people there is only one place to stand on this. there is no such thing as transition. you can re draw the map but it doesn't change the land.

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Mar 10, 2023Liked by Katrina Biggs

I do think we need to be able to name our differences without arguing about them and without trying to convince each other we are right. I'm a bit over being told the 'a' word can't be mentioned. Forty years campaigning for abortion rights and now I'm never to mention abortion? I'm not in the business of attempting to convince women opposed to abortion that they are wrong - but I don't like the way some groups ban any mention of abortion.

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I agree. In the face of the level of irrational opposition from the left around all the safeguarding issues that women's and children's rights bring up, I'll use whatever sources of support I can find. It is important to separate out what you are trying to do and to stay focused on this. Holly Lawford-Smith in her book "Gender-Critical Feminism" makes the very valid point that so called "intersectionality" means that women's issues never make it to the top of the to-do list; that by the time everyone else's interests are served, women are left behind to pick up the pieces (again) and our needs are not met because we are never important enough on our own. That is one of the things I admire about Kellie-Jay Keen; she is not an apologist for putting women first and foremost in the work she is doing.

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Wonderful Katrina - and I LOVE yours and Di's video, it's fantastic.

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