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Why was I hounded for speaking up for women’s rights?

29 October 2024

3:12 AM

29 October 2024

3:12 AM

The evening of 2 June 2019 is something of a ‘sliding doors’ moment in my life. I had just read a column in a local arts magazine called The Skinny, written by a notorious gender identity activist. In it, the columnist justified violent action against lesbians at Pride marches, defending tweets in which they had written: ‘Get in their faces, make them afraid.

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