Helen Woolf
@feduphelen.bsky.social
Feminist, tired of protesting the same shit, but never backing down.
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Project Resist has united with Sharon Holland & bereaved families to campaign for justice for victims of domestic abuse related suicides. Our aim is to raise awareness and expose the systemic failures of the police and criminal justice system to treat these deaths as homicides.
June 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Project Resist has united with Sharon Holland & bereaved families to campaign for justice for victims of domestic abuse related suicides. Our aim is to raise awareness and expose the systemic failures of the police and criminal justice system to treat these deaths as homicides.
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It's #Saturday #FiLiA2025 speaker news!
PRAGNA PATEL, co-founder & co-director of @projectresist.bsky.social & former Director & founding member of @sbsisters.bsky.social will be speaking at #FiLiA
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#FeministsAgainstRacism #HumanRights #Resist
PRAGNA PATEL, co-founder & co-director of @projectresist.bsky.social & former Director & founding member of @sbsisters.bsky.social will be speaking at #FiLiA
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#FeministsAgainstRacism #HumanRights #Resist
June 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's #Saturday #FiLiA2025 speaker news!
PRAGNA PATEL, co-founder & co-director of @projectresist.bsky.social & former Director & founding member of @sbsisters.bsky.social will be speaking at #FiLiA
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
#FeministsAgainstRacism #HumanRights #Resist
PRAGNA PATEL, co-founder & co-director of @projectresist.bsky.social & former Director & founding member of @sbsisters.bsky.social will be speaking at #FiLiA
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
#FeministsAgainstRacism #HumanRights #Resist
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NEW: Trans people must accept what will feel like a reduction in their rights after the supreme court ruling because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights are, one of the commissioners drawing up the post-ruling guidance has said.
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EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept perceived reduced rights
Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’
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June 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
NEW: Trans people must accept what will feel like a reduction in their rights after the supreme court ruling because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights are, one of the commissioners drawing up the post-ruling guidance has said.
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Women’s rights are not a moral imperative — they’re a marketing strategy. Enough. Women are not props for diplomacy or branding tools for Vision 2030. They are not to be used, covered, and uncovered on command. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/used...
June 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Women’s rights are not a moral imperative — they’re a marketing strategy. Enough. Women are not props for diplomacy or branding tools for Vision 2030. They are not to be used, covered, and uncovered on command. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/used...
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'With their case heading to the courts, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has intervened, ordering Darlington Memorial Hospital to give the women their own room.'
What a disgrace it has been that this NHS Trust has flauted the law for so long.
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What a disgrace it has been that this NHS Trust has flauted the law for so long.
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Darlington nurses win right to a female-only changing room
The Darlington nurses launched a legal action saying transgender policies put them at risk, deprived them of dignity and breached their human rights.
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June 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
'With their case heading to the courts, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has intervened, ordering Darlington Memorial Hospital to give the women their own room.'
What a disgrace it has been that this NHS Trust has flauted the law for so long.
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What a disgrace it has been that this NHS Trust has flauted the law for so long.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Jade is a survivor of a grooming & rape gang
None of her perpetrators have been convicted, let alone charged
But Jade has - convicted of a grooming offence when *she* was a teenager being sexually abused herself
Her petition to overturn her conviction is here 👇
t.co/S18AbQOQUV
None of her perpetrators have been convicted, let alone charged
But Jade has - convicted of a grooming offence when *she* was a teenager being sexually abused herself
Her petition to overturn her conviction is here 👇
t.co/S18AbQOQUV
https://chng.it/YsXCDMZwnk
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June 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Jade is a survivor of a grooming & rape gang
None of her perpetrators have been convicted, let alone charged
But Jade has - convicted of a grooming offence when *she* was a teenager being sexually abused herself
Her petition to overturn her conviction is here 👇
t.co/S18AbQOQUV
None of her perpetrators have been convicted, let alone charged
But Jade has - convicted of a grooming offence when *she* was a teenager being sexually abused herself
Her petition to overturn her conviction is here 👇
t.co/S18AbQOQUV
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All our support is free to access for breastfeeding mothers, but not free to provide. All donations will help fund our local meetings and breastfeeding support and the background costs that make them possible.
June 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All our support is free to access for breastfeeding mothers, but not free to provide. All donations will help fund our local meetings and breastfeeding support and the background costs that make them possible.
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'This is the first time Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Nicole Jacobs and Victims Commissioner for England and Wales Baroness Newlove have written jointly to Sir Keir Starmer.'
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PM warned more funding needed to tackle violence against women
Two senior government watchdogs say victim support services are being
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June 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
'This is the first time Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Nicole Jacobs and Victims Commissioner for England and Wales Baroness Newlove have written jointly to Sir Keir Starmer.'
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#TimeToAct #AbortionIsHealthcare
Please write your MP & ask them to protect women's access to reproductive health care & remove abortion from criminal law.
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#TimeToAct #AbortionIsHealthcare
Please write your MP & ask them to protect women's access to reproductive health care & remove abortion from criminal law.
Please sign the petition ♥️
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June 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Please share ♥️
#TimeToAct #AbortionIsHealthcare
Please write your MP & ask them to protect women's access to reproductive health care & remove abortion from criminal law.
Please sign the petition ♥️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Email template ♥️
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/abortion-rep...
#TimeToAct #AbortionIsHealthcare
Please write your MP & ask them to protect women's access to reproductive health care & remove abortion from criminal law.
Please sign the petition ♥️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Email template ♥️
brightonsisters.wordpress.com/abortion-rep...
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Providing single sex services with confidence: a template for clear guidance
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A template for clear guidance - Sex Matters
It is simple What about enforcement? The single-sex and separate-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act should be straightforward and easy to apply. But they have become entangled in misundersta...
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May 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Providing single sex services with confidence: a template for clear guidance
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It's #Saturday #FiLiA2025 speaker time!
MARYAM ALDOSSARI, @maryamaldossari.bsky.social #Saudi feminist academic who critiques how authoritarian regimes weaponise women’s rights to silence dissent and whitewash repression is coming to #FiLiA2025
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#Feminist #Activist
MARYAM ALDOSSARI, @maryamaldossari.bsky.social #Saudi feminist academic who critiques how authoritarian regimes weaponise women’s rights to silence dissent and whitewash repression is coming to #FiLiA2025
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
#Feminist #Activist
May 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's #Saturday #FiLiA2025 speaker time!
MARYAM ALDOSSARI, @maryamaldossari.bsky.social #Saudi feminist academic who critiques how authoritarian regimes weaponise women’s rights to silence dissent and whitewash repression is coming to #FiLiA2025
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
#Feminist #Activist
MARYAM ALDOSSARI, @maryamaldossari.bsky.social #Saudi feminist academic who critiques how authoritarian regimes weaponise women’s rights to silence dissent and whitewash repression is coming to #FiLiA2025
🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets
#Feminist #Activist
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I welcome the decision by World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing, which is in line with the recommendation I made in my thematic report to #UNGA79 (A/79/325)
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World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing for all boxers - World Boxing
World Boxing will introduce mandatory sex testing, to determine the eligibility of male and female athletes that want to take part in its competitions. The introduction of mandatory testing will be pa...
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May 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I welcome the decision by World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing, which is in line with the recommendation I made in my thematic report to #UNGA79 (A/79/325)
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Well done EHRC.
'A top UK human rights body has written to “remind” an NHS board at the centre of a single-sex spaces row that changing rooms must include separate facilities for men and women.'
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Watchdog tells NHS Fife to provide single-sex changing rooms
The EHRC has written to the health board and Scottish ministers after the employment tribunal involving Sandy Peggie and a transgender doctor, Beth Upton
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February 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Well done EHRC.
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“There will be some cases where perpetrators of ...coercive and controlling behaviour, pressure victims to seek to end their lives. There’s a significant risk that, through this dynamic, coercion will play a part in some cases of assisted dying.” @centreWJ
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Domestic violence victims must be included in the assisted dying debate, campaigners say
Charities warn of ‘significant risk’ that victims of coercive control could be put under pressure to end their lives under assisted dying legislation
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February 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“There will be some cases where perpetrators of ...coercive and controlling behaviour, pressure victims to seek to end their lives. There’s a significant risk that, through this dynamic, coercion will play a part in some cases of assisted dying.” @centreWJ
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'The "letter before action" that has been sent to the government is a formal mechanism to allow it a chance to respond before the campaigners seek a judicial review at the High Court in two weeks time.'
#WASPIWomen
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#WASPIWomen
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Waspi women threaten legal action after pension payouts rejected
It comes after the government rejected compensation for women hit by changes to the state pension age.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
'The "letter before action" that has been sent to the government is a formal mechanism to allow it a chance to respond before the campaigners seek a judicial review at the High Court in two weeks time.'
#WASPIWomen
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#WASPIWomen
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In both our studies there are mothers who are prohibited from seeing their own children but work in schools with children as no history of abuse/convictions. There are also fathers who have shared care of their children who have so many convictions wouldn't be allowed in a school...
February 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
In both our studies there are mothers who are prohibited from seeing their own children but work in schools with children as no history of abuse/convictions. There are also fathers who have shared care of their children who have so many convictions wouldn't be allowed in a school...
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The longest lived elephant in the room which nobody in family law can justify is this:
How can separating a child from a mother to 'fix' the alleged harm of separation from a father be a non-harmful solution? Why is father-child separation considered harmful but not mother-child?
How can separating a child from a mother to 'fix' the alleged harm of separation from a father be a non-harmful solution? Why is father-child separation considered harmful but not mother-child?
February 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The longest lived elephant in the room which nobody in family law can justify is this:
How can separating a child from a mother to 'fix' the alleged harm of separation from a father be a non-harmful solution? Why is father-child separation considered harmful but not mother-child?
How can separating a child from a mother to 'fix' the alleged harm of separation from a father be a non-harmful solution? Why is father-child separation considered harmful but not mother-child?
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Pro-assisted dying MPs are approaching their bill in a hyperpartisan way, treating expert concerns that vulnerable people will be subjected to wrongful state-sanctioned deaths dismissively. The buck for that stops with Keir Starmer.
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Voices that oppose the assisted dying bill aren’t ‘noise’. They are vital scrutiny | Sonia Sodha
Rather than rush through such a high-stakes law, it’s essential to listen to all sides of the debate
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February 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Pro-assisted dying MPs are approaching their bill in a hyperpartisan way, treating expert concerns that vulnerable people will be subjected to wrongful state-sanctioned deaths dismissively. The buck for that stops with Keir Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Please sign to support Reem Alsalem against smear campaign. CALL FOR A GLOBAL ACTION OF SUPPORT FOR UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Ms Reem Alsalem. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CALL FOR A GLOBAL ACTION OF SUPPORT FOR UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Ms Reem Alsalem
L'APPEL EN FRANÇAIS || EL LLAMAMIENTO EN ESPAÑOL || النداء في اللغة العربية || Призыв на русском || Заклик українською мовою ||
This letter was initiated by the Women's Platform for Action Internatio...
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February 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Please sign to support Reem Alsalem against smear campaign. CALL FOR A GLOBAL ACTION OF SUPPORT FOR UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Ms Reem Alsalem. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The underlying story that MI5 have been trying to obscure concerns serious violence against a woman by a protected informant
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MI5 lied to courts to defend handling of violent neo-Nazi agent
In an unprecedented admission, the Security Service apologises for “inaccurate” evidence.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The underlying story that MI5 have been trying to obscure concerns serious violence against a woman by a protected informant
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Female colleagues should never be expected to share changing facilities with male colleagues regardless of how they identify. It's wrong, and unlawful.
But that's what happened to Sandie Peggie, a nurse working for NHS Fife. Today's Observer column.
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But that's what happened to Sandie Peggie, a nurse working for NHS Fife. Today's Observer column.
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No woman should be forced to change her clothes in front of a male colleague | Sonia Sodha
A case brought by an NHS nurse over a shared changing room could be the tip of the iceberg
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February 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Female colleagues should never be expected to share changing facilities with male colleagues regardless of how they identify. It's wrong, and unlawful.
But that's what happened to Sandie Peggie, a nurse working for NHS Fife. Today's Observer column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But that's what happened to Sandie Peggie, a nurse working for NHS Fife. Today's Observer column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm ashamed of any government that makes distress a spectator sport
Yesterday, the Government posted shocking footage of people being taken from detention centres - by force - and put on deportation flights.
This act of performative cruelty gives rise to racism and could have dangerous consequences.
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This act of performative cruelty gives rise to racism and could have dangerous consequences.
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Deportation footage ‘enables mainstreaming of racism’, Clive Lewis says
Labour MP and others on left of party speak out after ‘cruel’ video shown
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February 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I'm ashamed of any government that makes distress a spectator sport
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This ruling is a major setback for confidence in policing and undermines the Government's pledge to halve VAWG in a decade.
I will be writing to the Home Secretary, urging her to swiftly strengthen the police's ability to sack officers and staff who pose a risk to public safety. ⬇️
I will be writing to the Home Secretary, urging her to swiftly strengthen the police's ability to sack officers and staff who pose a risk to public safety. ⬇️
Met Police cannot dismiss officers by removing their vetting clearance, High Court rules
Met Police cannot dismiss officers by removing their vetting clearance, High Court rules
The Metropolitan Police cannot dismiss officers by removing their vetting clearance, the High Court has ruled.
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February 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This ruling is a major setback for confidence in policing and undermines the Government's pledge to halve VAWG in a decade.
I will be writing to the Home Secretary, urging her to swiftly strengthen the police's ability to sack officers and staff who pose a risk to public safety. ⬇️
I will be writing to the Home Secretary, urging her to swiftly strengthen the police's ability to sack officers and staff who pose a risk to public safety. ⬇️
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Full interview here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jess-a...
Jess Asato MP on LinkedIn: I'm concerned that the decision to remove High Court Judges from the…
I'm concerned that the decision to remove High Court Judges from the assisted dying process will leave vulnerable people at greater risk of coercion.
We need…
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February 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Full interview here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jess-a...