Feminist activist academic, ex co-chair of EVAW, football fan, current passions VAWG, older lesbian co-housing, movement building
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Liz Kelly retweeted
- Eight members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet referred firms to VIP lane, four of these ministers haven't been named before - Dominic Raab, Robert Buckland, Simon Hart, and Robert Jenrick
Firms in the VIP lane were 10 times more likely to win contracts
Liz Kelly retweeted
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
Liz Kelly retweeted
Real radical feminism is pro-women and anti-racist, as Redstockings stated in 1969: "We identify with all women. We define our best interest as that of the poorest, most brutally exploited woman. We repudiate all economic, racial, educational or status privileges that divide us from other women."
And we detest apartheid, religious or racialized, and ethno-nationalist supremacism, whether by Hamas or by the far-better-armed IDF, and exterminationist rhetoric.
Liz Kelly retweeted
🧵 𝗔 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗞 𝗳𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀/𝗚𝗖𝘀, take your eyes off of JCJ and watch your context. She’s actually trying to get you to pull your heads up and look around at what is coming for you. She and all the other left-wing feminists.
Liz Kelly retweeted
I worked the Brazilian elections for France 24.
For what it's worth (and armed with a degree in History and Politics!!), here's my take on what happened.
Liz Kelly retweeted
Threats, largely on social media, against “high office holders” have been ramping up. Women in politics are particularly scared.
Just this month, a research report identified 138 women parliamentarians from 22 European countries who were depicted in, or associated with, deepfake pornography, compared with only nine men. You can find the same pattern in Pakistan, the US and Bolivia. Where women speak, online abuse follows.
fullerproject.org/the-cost-o…
Liz Kelly retweeted
BREAKING: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson unleashes a SCORCHING attack on Trump and his disgusting cozying up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that gets under Trump's skin...
"I thought I’d never have to say this in my lifetime, but this is 2026, and sadly nothing is what it used to be," Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, wrote on LinkedIn. "The Trump administration has become an appeaser to autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims before the best interests of the American people and those of the free world. What is it about Putin that President Trump fawns over?"
"How will America’s allies ever be able to trust this administration again when they are now turning against them at a time of war and suffering?" he asked.
Trump has repeatedly betrayed our Ukrainian allies in recent days. First, he announced a stunning deal with Putin to allow millions of barrels of diesel into the global markets, a move that will directly pump money into the Russian war machine. Then, he began a concerted smear campaign against President Zelenskyy and said that Putin is easier to deal with.
The backstabbing escalated when Washington failed to provide its usual early warning to Kyiv of an incoming Russian ballistic missile attack. Now, it appears that the White House ordered a temporary disruption of Starshield, a military version of Elon Musk's Starlink that the Ukrainian armed forces rely upon.
"The slowdown of Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable lack of advance warning of Russian missile launches have already caused Ukrainian civilians to die unnecessarily," wrote Branson. "How much worse can it get?"
"If one thing is clear it’s that European leaders must overcome the initial shock about Trump’s recent actions and step up to the plate. It’s as much about Europe’s freedom as it is about Ukraine’s sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for," he continued. "All options should be on the table now, from the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to the delivery of advanced weapons systems such as Germany’s Taurus."
"Why oh why is this happening? We cannot let the free world be dismantled before our very eyes," Branson concluded.
We couldn't agree more. Trump is an enemy to Ukraine, an enemy to democracy, and an enemy to the American people. When Democrats retake power, we have our work cut out for us. Every last trace of this monstrous man's legacy must be erased.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is Putin's puppet!
Liz Kelly retweeted
"Consenting to snort white powder is not consenting to be gang raped for seven hours." The law is not on women's side, surprise. "Basically, the law says if a victim took drugs or alcohol willingly, they’re not legally incapacitated so consent is assumed. Basically, it makes rape legal. That’s so screwed up it’s sickening. Laws should not make rape legal.
"That is why New York lawmakers and organizations like RAINN are pushing for bills like Senate Bill S10632 to change the law to focus on whether the victim was too impaired to consent, instead of whether they agreed to take the drugs."
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Liz Kelly retweeted
Substantial proportions of men engage in violent and abusive behaviour towards women, including acts that meet legal definitions of crime.
E.g., 29.3% of male college students in North America have perpetrated sexual assault.
Yet very few receive any kind of formal sanction.
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Liz Kelly retweeted
Acaban de actualizar 2.2200.000 personas . Record absoluto de la historia de Madrid . Ni la selección. La derecha está muerta . Madrid dice se acabó 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
Hi @openreach and @EE I stayed in for 6 hours waiting for an engineer, no show, no message and and an AI response. Computer says no is not customer service
Liz Kelly retweeted
This is 17 yr old Jeremiah Carnegie from London. He realised that local families couldn't afford swimming lessons for their kids. So, he went to the bosses of the pool and proposed the idea of running a free, two-week swimming course.
The result: 780 kids signed up!
Liz Kelly retweeted
They took memory cards from us and made us pay for storage. They took CDs and DVDs and made us pay for streaming. They took software you could buy once and turned it into a monthly subscription. They took ownership, convenience, and basically everything that used to be a one-time purchase… then somehow made us pay for it every month.
Liz Kelly retweeted
I knew I had A GOOD reason, apart from her superb acting career, to admire Jody_you go girl!
Liz Kelly retweeted
What strikes me about this letter is that the writer isn’t demanding Nigel Farage agree with her politics. She isn’t even attacking him for being Reform.
She simply wants access to the person elected to represent her.
That’s the part of politics we sometimes lose sight of. Being an MP isn’t primarily a media job. You represent everyone in your constituency, including the people who voted against you.
Four unanswered emails just to ask about a constituency clinic is a poor look.
Liz Kelly retweeted
"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
Liz Kelly retweeted
Long post, sorry. But I swear, one of the disorders of this island is that whenever we do something well, we destroy it to appease an imagined reactionary swing voter in about 20 constituencies.
We do universities well. Genuinely, world-beatingly as a sector.
So naturally we're dismantling them — because "migrants," "foreigners," and "Mickey Mouse degrees."
While ignoring entirely that the sector:
1. Redistributes wealth around the country as students move between regions.
2. Delivers a massive net benefit through R&D
3. Anchors local economies — in half our towns, the university is the economy
3. Is one of our biggest export industries, with international students bringing in billions
5. Trains the doctors, nurses, and teachers as well as producing an educated population, in general.
6. Remains one of the few engines of social mobility we have left
7. Generates the spin-outs and startups every government has claimed it wants more of
8. Is among the last sources of British soft power that still commands global respect
9. And is a GOOD in and of itself, builds lifelong friendships, improves social cohesion, exposes young people to different ways of life and living. The most formative experience in many peoples' lives.
And they're not being destroyed, for the most part, by the sector itself, but by stupid decision after stupid decision by the government around how to run and fund them.
It is a genuine catastrophe, tanking our last stellar industry.
But instead of even reporting on the broader impacts this will all have, the university is just castigated as some fortress in the culture war.
Liz Kelly retweeted
Calm, judicious, bold, brave theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Liz Kelly retweeted
No matter who wins the continuing front page PR battle as to who is the most discriminated against group on the planet, globally "Misogyny-driven lethal violence against women and girls results in a significantly higher absolute number of annual deaths than racism, antisemitism, homophobia, or ableism". The lethal War Against Women continues. The clearly intentional refusal to focus on that detail continues.
Claims that it's mainly in other countries with other religions is just another example of us, men, globally letting ourselves off the hook. The evidence is hidden in plain sight. The in our faces fact conveniently never makes it to the front page.
Fact check or just shrug and walk on by. Ask in your browser, "Is it true that misogyny results in a significantly higher absolute number of annual deaths than racism, antisemitism, homophobia, or ableism?" It's easy to do and then check on how that is reflected in the media (overwhelmingly owned by men).
And who is responsible for this deadly war against The Female? Clearly: The Male.
But we guys don't have to worry. We have a get-out. Collective responsibility is vehemently rejected, globally. So we don't have to worry. We can continue with, "None of us individually can be blamed, and "I don't personally behave like that". Don't worry, those self-serving mantras will never die.
On the other hand we could demand those figures take their rightful place on the daily front pages and news-casts and social media outlets and as a result, rightly, in all our minds.
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