VP Student Success at CQUni. Regions, arts, humanities, learning, inclusion, technology. Musician. Astronomer. Dad. He/him @jonpowles@mastodon.scot
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Ok, question:
TERFs insist that banning trans women from women’s loos will stop predatory cis men coming in pretending to be trans women.
But-trans men now HAVE to use the women’s loos.
So how do we now stop those same predatory cis men coming in pretending to be trans men?
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To everyone celebrating that awful image of women cheering what they see as a “win” over a vulnerable minority group: We see you. It’s abhorrent. History will not look kindly on this ❌
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No we don’t all agree on the fact we are not “biological women” Femi. I am absolutely a biological woman. As is Katy Montgomery and everyone else who has medically transitioned. Hormones change your biological sex. Bones, body chemisty etc. Having a baby or period is not a pre-requisite. Hormones have infinitely more influence than chromos. That’s not me being stubborn, or obtuse - it’s true. There is NO definition of “biological woman” because every woman (trans or not) is different.
The UK #SupremeCpurt ruling is ethically, legally and medically indefensible. It will provide women of any kind with no additional rights or protection, or access to no more health care. Its sole effect will be to remove protection from from trans people. goodlaw.social/qoo2
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And we’re off!!
@acsesedu Access, Achievement, Accord 2024
The Australian Student Equity Symposium
Welcome to Country by Uncle Harry Allie AO
Opening
@prof_saggar @prof_ianli
Keynote address
@JasonClareMP
2 days talking #EquityMatters!
Lot at stake😊
#AAAEQUITY
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Next up is a panel discussion on #EquityTargets and how we can get there, with Q&A.
Panel members include @MarciaDevlin, Dr Matthew Brown @GroupOfEight, @ColettaFrank, Paul Harris @IRUAustralia, @renee_hindmarsh, Alec Webb @RegUniNet
#AAAEQUITY #studentequity
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Damiel Radcliffe is a decent person.
That's it.
theguardian.com/film/2024/ma…
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Annabel Crabb at her very, very best. abc.net.au/news/2024-05-01/a…
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We will never make real progress on ending male violence against women until #AllMen:
1. Condemn male violence against women
2. Challenge rigid gender roles
3. Examine & q. our own male peer networks/cultures
4. Share control equally in decision - making with women in our lives
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Why are they pictured getting their messages? If they're writers, should they not be sitting at their laptops?
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Doğduğum ve doyduğum yerlerin cesur adamları, Johnny'ler ve Mehmet'leri saygıyla anıyorum💐
#25Nisan1915
#AnzacDay2024
Since #ANZACDay last year, I have visited the Gallipoli battlefields and memorials to the Allied troops and those of Türkiye. I read @Peter_Fitz excellent book.
I have been struggling this morning to articulate how I feel. But then I logged on to find that he’d already said it.
My column.
The missing emotion that needs to be articulated on Anzac Day: rage. smh.com.au/national/the-miss…
Of all the military idiocies in the Gallipoli campaign, the most egregious was probably the four futile charges against the enemy positions ordered of the 8th and 10th light horse regiments at The Nek on 7 August 1915. 600 Australians charged; 372 were killed or wounded.
The Nek is now a lovely place. You can’t visit it without your spine tingling. You can almost hear the echoes of the frantic efforts of men like Lt Col Noel Brazier to persuade the allied commanders to call off the pointless slaughter.
Rage is right. #LestWeForget
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Got asked by a member of the teaching team to justify how it was fair to offer a student a chance to resubmit when they'd clearly not addressed the task, in a pass-fail unit, since there might be other students who could resubmit to achieve higher on the rubric...
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For my UK friends, what happened in Sydney was not terror-related. Julia Hartley-Brewer should be ashamed of herself for spewing this BS.
Another day. Another terror attack by another Islamist terrorist. Six dead, others seriously injured, including a baby.
Today it's Australia's turn, the other day it was France's. It'll be our turn again next.
How long do our governments think we're going to put up with this?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Bondi Junction attack is not an Islamic terrorist attack. No link to Islam has been reported.
The Police Commissioner of NSW said police will investigate if the attacker was targeting women.
"That will be an obvious line of inquiry," she said.
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…