Jeni Harvey
@gappytales.bsky.social
Woman, feminist, writer. "Like a meth addicted Mary Poppins".
https://jeniharveymindthegap.substack.com/
https://jeniharveymindthegap.substack.com/
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Jeni Harvey
@gappytales.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Well, here I am. I'll begin on a positive note: a message to Elon.
I abhor political violence. It destroys democracy, it favours the powerful.
But as the radical right makes hay, I would beg people to inform themselves. It is right wing extremism that kills. The radical right are more politically violent than any other group. Such is well documented.
But as the radical right makes hay, I would beg people to inform themselves. It is right wing extremism that kills. The radical right are more politically violent than any other group. Such is well documented.
September 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I abhor political violence. It destroys democracy, it favours the powerful.
But as the radical right makes hay, I would beg people to inform themselves. It is right wing extremism that kills. The radical right are more politically violent than any other group. Such is well documented.
But as the radical right makes hay, I would beg people to inform themselves. It is right wing extremism that kills. The radical right are more politically violent than any other group. Such is well documented.
Glastonbury 2025 I am in you 😍
June 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Glastonbury 2025 I am in you 😍
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
We are liaising with the police and understand that a criminal investigation is ongoing.
We will continue to hold space for women, raise awareness about the inequalities we face as women & take action to improve our lives.
#SistersSalon #Brighton
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/statement-on...
We will continue to hold space for women, raise awareness about the inequalities we face as women & take action to improve our lives.
#SistersSalon #Brighton
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/statement-on...
Statement on the malicious disruption of Women’s Health Event run by Sisters Salon
We are dismayed that our Women’s Health event at Brighton’s Jubilee Library on Saturday 17th May was targeted by a nuisance protestor. We are delighted to report that the event did eventually go ah…
brightonsisters.wordpress.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We are liaising with the police and understand that a criminal investigation is ongoing.
We will continue to hold space for women, raise awareness about the inequalities we face as women & take action to improve our lives.
#SistersSalon #Brighton
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/statement-on...
We will continue to hold space for women, raise awareness about the inequalities we face as women & take action to improve our lives.
#SistersSalon #Brighton
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/statement-on...
Do you know who always seems nice? Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
As Nigel's go, he seems alright.
As you were.
As Nigel's go, he seems alright.
As you were.
May 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Do you know who always seems nice? Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
As Nigel's go, he seems alright.
As you were.
As Nigel's go, he seems alright.
As you were.
This is, I think, transactivisms biggest coup. Persuading young women that towing the line and putting all their political energy into caping for men's rights is the radical thing to do.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nadi...
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nadi...
MP Nadia Whittome: "The attack on trans women harms all women”
The UK's Supreme Court ruling is a dangerous step in a global campaign to divide marginalised groups and roll back hard-won rights, argues the Labour MP.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is, I think, transactivisms biggest coup. Persuading young women that towing the line and putting all their political energy into caping for men's rights is the radical thing to do.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nadi...
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nadi...
Open letter to umbrella bodies in the MVAWG sector written by @shonaghdillon.bsky.social and @kareningalasmith.bsky.social
These women have been pivotal in defending women's single sex support services and the fight is not over.
open.substack.com/pub/shonaghd...
These women have been pivotal in defending women's single sex support services and the fight is not over.
open.substack.com/pub/shonaghd...
Supreme Court Ruling - Open Letter to national organisations in the men's violence against women sector
The Supreme Court Ruling, For Women Scotland v.
open.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Open letter to umbrella bodies in the MVAWG sector written by @shonaghdillon.bsky.social and @kareningalasmith.bsky.social
These women have been pivotal in defending women's single sex support services and the fight is not over.
open.substack.com/pub/shonaghd...
These women have been pivotal in defending women's single sex support services and the fight is not over.
open.substack.com/pub/shonaghd...
Nobody read Sylvia Plath if they're in a bad mood.
"Like a terrible fish" 😂😂
"Like a terrible fish" 😂😂
April 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Nobody read Sylvia Plath if they're in a bad mood.
"Like a terrible fish" 😂😂
"Like a terrible fish" 😂😂
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
Inspiring stuff here.
"Women find themselves caught in a pincer move between misogynists on the right and left, who threaten either to shunt us back into the kitchen with attacks on our reproductive rights and freedoms, or to deny that we have any specific rights at all."
"Women find themselves caught in a pincer move between misogynists on the right and left, who threaten either to shunt us back into the kitchen with attacks on our reproductive rights and freedoms, or to deny that we have any specific rights at all."
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling
open.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Inspiring stuff here.
"Women find themselves caught in a pincer move between misogynists on the right and left, who threaten either to shunt us back into the kitchen with attacks on our reproductive rights and freedoms, or to deny that we have any specific rights at all."
"Women find themselves caught in a pincer move between misogynists on the right and left, who threaten either to shunt us back into the kitchen with attacks on our reproductive rights and freedoms, or to deny that we have any specific rights at all."
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
Jeni speaks for very many of us 🙏💜🔥
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jeni speaks for very many of us 🙏💜🔥
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
“Those provisions were always there, but the Supreme
Court has set that out beyond a doubt.”
Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister
for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment.
Great to hear! 🙏
Court has set that out beyond a doubt.”
Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister
for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment.
Great to hear! 🙏
April 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“Those provisions were always there, but the Supreme
Court has set that out beyond a doubt.”
Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister
for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment.
Great to hear! 🙏
Court has set that out beyond a doubt.”
Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister
for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment.
Great to hear! 🙏
Gender, not sex. Gender, not sex. She is talking about gender, not sex.
She is not saying that female people are a figment of sexist imaginations, she is saying that gender is a figment of sexist imaginations.
Like the oft quoted de Beauvoir, she will be turning in her grave.
She is not saying that female people are a figment of sexist imaginations, she is saying that gender is a figment of sexist imaginations.
Like the oft quoted de Beauvoir, she will be turning in her grave.
April 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Gender, not sex. Gender, not sex. She is talking about gender, not sex.
She is not saying that female people are a figment of sexist imaginations, she is saying that gender is a figment of sexist imaginations.
Like the oft quoted de Beauvoir, she will be turning in her grave.
She is not saying that female people are a figment of sexist imaginations, she is saying that gender is a figment of sexist imaginations.
Like the oft quoted de Beauvoir, she will be turning in her grave.
A really informative blog for anyone with questions as to how the Supreme Court ruling may affect women, girls, and trans men.
"We urge everyone to read the judgement before leaping to any conclusions about it's effects".
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/blog-sex-in-...
"We urge everyone to read the judgement before leaping to any conclusions about it's effects".
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/blog-sex-in-...
BLOG: Sex in the Equality Act
What the Supreme Court judgment means for women & girls and trans men Jump to: Lesbians in the Equality Act Pregnancy and maternity protections for trans men Trans men and equal pay claims Wome…
brightonsisters.wordpress.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A really informative blog for anyone with questions as to how the Supreme Court ruling may affect women, girls, and trans men.
"We urge everyone to read the judgement before leaping to any conclusions about it's effects".
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/blog-sex-in-...
"We urge everyone to read the judgement before leaping to any conclusions about it's effects".
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/blog-sex-in-...
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
Opinion of @ObserverUK that @ForWomenScot ruling was necessary & protects everyone
"Right across society..the law has in effect been rewritten by leaders & HR managers in response to activist demands..in a way that unlawfully discriminates against women"
"Right across society..the law has in effect been rewritten by leaders & HR managers in response to activist demands..in a way that unlawfully discriminates against women"
The reaction to women celebrating the For Women Scotland legal victory only serves as a reminder that while the law is the law our culture remains dead-set against women who say no.
My final column for the Observer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My final column for the Observer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted | Sonia Sodha
Last week’s ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Opinion of @ObserverUK that @ForWomenScot ruling was necessary & protects everyone
"Right across society..the law has in effect been rewritten by leaders & HR managers in response to activist demands..in a way that unlawfully discriminates against women"
"Right across society..the law has in effect been rewritten by leaders & HR managers in response to activist demands..in a way that unlawfully discriminates against women"
Today transactivists pissed all over the Millicent Fawcett statue and held placards issuing death threats.
Honestly, what is it going to take for people to see this for the explicitly antifeminist, misogynistic movement it is.
Honestly, what is it going to take for people to see this for the explicitly antifeminist, misogynistic movement it is.
April 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today transactivists pissed all over the Millicent Fawcett statue and held placards issuing death threats.
Honestly, what is it going to take for people to see this for the explicitly antifeminist, misogynistic movement it is.
Honestly, what is it going to take for people to see this for the explicitly antifeminist, misogynistic movement it is.
Cannot bear it, can you. To be thwarted by a bunch of middle aged women who are supposed to be invisible; who men have decided are now past it, irrelevant, good only for domestic duties.
We came together to tell you no. That we were keeping some space for ourselves.
And you are apoplectic.
We came together to tell you no. That we were keeping some space for ourselves.
And you are apoplectic.
You do, indeed, turn my stomach
April 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Cannot bear it, can you. To be thwarted by a bunch of middle aged women who are supposed to be invisible; who men have decided are now past it, irrelevant, good only for domestic duties.
We came together to tell you no. That we were keeping some space for ourselves.
And you are apoplectic.
We came together to tell you no. That we were keeping some space for ourselves.
And you are apoplectic.
I thought the consensus was that no man would ever pretend to be something he wasn't in order to invade women's spaces?
Also, Jolyon, mate. Keep your private thoughts to yourself.
Also, Jolyon, mate. Keep your private thoughts to yourself.
April 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I thought the consensus was that no man would ever pretend to be something he wasn't in order to invade women's spaces?
Also, Jolyon, mate. Keep your private thoughts to yourself.
Also, Jolyon, mate. Keep your private thoughts to yourself.
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
'“I am so relieved and so pleased by the Supreme Court judgment” ... As one of the three directors of For Women Scotland, the grassroots campaign group who took their argument all the way to the UK’s highest court, she had every reason to be happy.'
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
UK Supreme Court gender ruling is huge victory for women dismissed as 'bigots' by Sturgeon and co
Feminist campaigners lost their livelihoods as they fought for the right to speak the truth about the definition of a woman, writes Susan Dalgety
www.scotsman.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
'“I am so relieved and so pleased by the Supreme Court judgment” ... As one of the three directors of For Women Scotland, the grassroots campaign group who took their argument all the way to the UK’s highest court, she had every reason to be happy.'
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
'Five judges from the UK supreme court ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).'
💃🍸💃
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Gender critical campaigners win at UK supreme court over definition of woman
Judges rule that Equality Act definition excludes transgender women holding gender recognition certificates
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
'Five judges from the UK supreme court ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).'
💃🍸💃
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
💃🍸💃
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Jeni Harvey
The court ruling makes clear to all what ordinary women across the UK have been saying for years: the law protects single-sex spaces & services.
A significant moment in the fight to protect women's, especially lesbians, rights.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
A significant moment in the fight to protect women's, especially lesbians, rights.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
For Women Scotland Supreme Court Victory — FiLiA
On Wednesday morning, in a packed courtroom at the Supreme Court in London, the judgment in the For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers (FWS2) case was handed down. The Supreme Court unanimously a...
www.filia.org.uk
April 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The court ruling makes clear to all what ordinary women across the UK have been saying for years: the law protects single-sex spaces & services.
A significant moment in the fight to protect women's, especially lesbians, rights.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
A significant moment in the fight to protect women's, especially lesbians, rights.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
Well it's not as though you haven't made a career out of getting things wrong.
April 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Well it's not as though you haven't made a career out of getting things wrong.
OH MY GOD YESSSS!!!!
April 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
OH MY GOD YESSSS!!!!
Male people are not female people, no matter if they have a special pass. This is the truth we have been fighting for, that matters to women's lives and freedom.
My stomach is turning with anxiety this morning but whatever the outcome we fight on.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
My stomach is turning with anxiety this morning but whatever the outcome we fight on.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
April 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Male people are not female people, no matter if they have a special pass. This is the truth we have been fighting for, that matters to women's lives and freedom.
My stomach is turning with anxiety this morning but whatever the outcome we fight on.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
My stomach is turning with anxiety this morning but whatever the outcome we fight on.
#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs