FinnMackay
@finnfox
Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article:
It's a fact Suffragettes were just posh grannies with too much time on their hands who wrote letters to MPs in between embroidery, they also planned actions IN THE OPEN and did equipment checks at Speakers Corner (bombs designed by Suffragettes in police museum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrag...)
Suffragettes organised this IN THE OPEN they had public direct action training held in Parliament Square and ran sessions every Sunday at church on how to avoid injury in police removal lifts from blockades... (1913 church ablaze in Hatcham www.paimages.co.uk/image-detail...)
Suffragettes organised this IN THE OPEN....they advertised for actionistas in The Times (1913 rail station destroyed by fire bomb www.nrmfriends.org.uk/post/votes-f...)
Bobcats are the only predators I want to see in adverts actually. Never forget how men's lives & careers are completely ruined, ruined by even just allegations of woman abuse.
How is butch raced, classed, what's its herstory, what's the relationship between masculinity for men & female or queer masculinity, what about butch as a gender separate from men?
It's Pride season! Let's learn about butch identities, masculinities, what's different about the butch identity compared to terms like masculine of centre, non-binary, masc, what even is masculinity anyway, is butch its own gender, a way of womanhood, a lesbian legacy, is it feminist??!!
Last chance to see Martin Parr exhibition in Bristol. Wonderful but bleak as well, reminded me how filthy the UK was. Every photo of the beach there's sunburnt toddlers paddling in sea full of litter & fag ends or sitting in a deck chair by overflowing piles of rubbish. We forget this too quickly.
I've just read Octavia Butler "The Parable of the Sower" & "Parable of the Talents", I've skimmed these before in an undergrad way, but so glad to now take time & read them properly. Bleak, hard reading but inspired. Written for our times, literally, was set in the 2020s & on.
Am here with my people at the British Sociological Association annual conference! Great cross generational panel yesterday organised by the legend that is Professor Sue Scott on gender in Sociology
Every joke you've ever heard tell about toddler kids water bottles is gospel true. Do not ever drink from them; not a drill. This was a fresh water bottle over tea time, got to the bottom and this is what it looked like. Utterly disgusting.
Really genuinely honoured to be on this list amongst such fabulous people, activists, legends, creatives, businesspeople. A real honour. Thank you Trans in the City. www.transinthecity.co.uk/changemakers
Good turnout for Trans Pride march in Bristol & a wonderful community day event at the Trinity Centre packed with two floors of stalls & workshops & cakes! And I got to meet @sandraduffy.bsky.social & hear great speakers on GRA reform & future.
.... respectfully marking the funeral of Princess Diana (She Lives! But also she was assassinated by the queen & the way the world is right now I'd believe both of these things) by calling for a ban on landmines in a protest at Greenham Common. And other times the 90s was more this...
I see everyone is reflecting on the 1990s, that was quite the defining time for me as I left home (thank Goddess!), went to live at a women's peace camp outside a US military base, went to university! So, sometimes the 90s was this....
I am never not in love with this beautiful city, from the minute I saw it.
The left is honestly how my partner "recycled" this cereal box. This is how I found it, balanced. Even the cat was appalled. The picture on the right is how I then recycled it.
I've joined UpScrolled ! @ FinnFox Yet another platform, maybe this one will catch on. Download on iOS: apps.apple.com/app/upscrolled… Download on Android:
Drop "sir" "madam" "lady" etc because they are offensive, sexist & outdated. Headline is an example of rage baiting, when it's not just an initiative for trans ppl, but better for everyone. Certainly better for women to drop sexist terms defined by marriage status and assumed relationship to a man.