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Shirley Osborne
@shirleyos.bsky.social
Supporting women in exercising their power - personal and political.
I am: writer & speaker; sailor & dancer; Simmons U. MBA; politics geek who fights for women & girls; fmr Commonwealth Parliamentary Assn. VC. Shoe-holic.
And quite the chef.
Bigotry and excessive force? "has put down deep roots"?! The understatement of the century, I'd say.
Racism is showing itself, is what it is.
October 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Excellent advice. He's thinking clearly.
October 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Can I cuss and swear here?
September 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Finally?
April 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
said realm, keep following along here and on the other platforms on which I’m active. I’ll be sharing everything I know and gather.
SO@FPW

#women #womeninleadership #politicalwomen #politics #womenempoweringwomen #womensupportingwomen #womeninspiringwomen
April 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
about leading Good things and leading them real good.

If you want in on the excitement and the realities, if you want in on the secrets from my lifetime in the political realm, and if you want information about what’s happening in politics in our world and about how to expand your activities in
April 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
as in all others, but the rules and the stakes remain the same.

Politics is still about Power.
Politics is still about The People.
Politics is still, ideally, about having the power to create societies in which we humans can thrive, with all our excesses and deficiencies.
Politics is still
April 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
incredible interactions, learnt some of the best-kept secrets, and have been unapologetically and unabashedly sharing the lessons learnt. That’s what this is all about!! Of course, the internet and social media have changed the ways in which power is managed and manipulated in the political realm
April 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Naturally, at some point, I fully understood it was all bullshit and the patriarchy - or the bullshit of the patriarchy! - and I jumped fully and completely into the fray, going head to head with the members of said patriarchy.

I’ve worked in many different parts of our world, had the most
April 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Who are these people??!! I supposed no children have nuts - or nut-like appendages - and if they did they're never supposed to look at them.
April 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Yup! There you go!! These are the times we're living in, huh??!!
April 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Alarmed, are they? This is a human rights violation reserved only for the U.S., is it?
April 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM