Born in S Africa. Emerita Prof of Cultural Studies in Education at Roehampton.
Cambridge, England
Joined April 2014
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Debbie Epstein retweeted
Imagine accusing a woman who used her massive platform to fight for women, despite being put through the ringer on a massive scale for doing so, of abandoning the 'sisterhood' because she doesn't want to vote for a party that pretended not to know what a woman was. Rowling could easily have coasted on her fame and fortune and instead stuck her neck out, which so few others in her position have done, but she's some kind of privileged sellout to women because she... won't vote for the party that sold out women? xitter.gq/HanoverHussy/status/18…
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Debbie Epstein retweeted
Please make distinction between transgender and transsexual. Buck Angel calls transgender like me- fake clowns because I don't deny bio sex. Transsexuals necessarily deny bio sex- need & use transition to justify further pathology along w/futile attempts to deny who they are.
Debbie Epstein retweeted
I appreciate this was posted 2 days ago but reading #firedoesntdiscriminate on the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell fire in London shows exactly how insulting that hashtag is.
Fire absolutely discriminated that morning. People who were on low incomes and immigrants were overwhelmingly the victims.
People on low incomes who live in high rise blocks and in houses with multiple occupancy are still at greater risk.
Pointless and insensitive hashtag.
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Congratulations Jo
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Prof Jo Phoenix
Criminologist & advocate for penal reform.
Founder of the Gender Critical Research Network.
The no-platforming & the sustained harassment & bullying by her University colleagues for her feminist views about sex & gender triggered the #ReindorfReport.
#WPUKicons
Debbie Epstein retweeted
Why has the Chief Finance Officer of @BrightonHoveCC okayed a 'saving' in the 2024-25 budget of £120k for domestic abuse services, when this is mostly funded by ringfenced money from @luhc for Domestic Abuse Act duties ('new burdens')?
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#SaveRISE
ALT Review of commissioned DA/VAWG service provision. Reduction in budget £60k saving initially identified as underspend plus unused interpretation & BSL services. Further £60k saving from commissioned services: - 50% funding of multiple compound needs specialist caseworker as part of Changing Futures programme due to end in 2024 - Current LGBTQ dispersed accommodation contract due to end in 2024, - Other funding unlikely to be required or where there is non-performance of contracts. Summarise the most significant impacts identified by this assessment including which groups will be disproportionally negatively affected drawing out intersectional impacts as applicable: The most significant impacts will be on women and girls affected by domestic violence/abuse. However, the budget reduction is from additional short term new burdens money and will not directly impact core budget for commissioned services.
Debbie Epstein retweeted
A brave teacher pays the price of empathy...
Debbie Epstein retweeted
Read Anne Frank 3 May 1944. She'd have agreed with these human rights organisations, passionately...
Court orders Netherlands to stop F-35 parts delivery to Israel amid Gaza onslaught
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Friends of all faiths (Jewish, Muslim, Christian) or none have been marching in London for #CeasefireNOW & peace w justice for all. One spotted this white kite with murdered teacher-poet Refaat Alareer's prophetic poem. His students call him "transformational". He'll live in them
Debbie Epstein retweeted
This might be an unpopular opinion, but in the majority of cases, fertility treatment doesn’t work. Spend your money on something else, or don’t build up debt to fund fertility treatment
‘Cost of living affecting London fertility treatment patients’ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo…
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MUST READ searing article on dehumanisation & its consequences by Raz Segal, Israeli & Jewish Holocaust & genocide studies scholar
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Some light in dark days: 'Music is our lives'...'Music speaks to the soul'... My characters in CHILDREN OF THE STONE CITY know this too...
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As a species who should be caring for ALL our children and their futures, we humans need to do better...
Devastating floods have displaced over 770,000 people in the #HornofAfrica.
This is a region that finds itself at the sharp end of the #ClimateCrisis.
Urgent action at the upcoming #COP28 is needed to increase communities resilience & preparedness towards climate disasters.
ALT Flooded areas in Wajir County, Kenya
Debbie Epstein retweeted
Respect to @Emmabarnett @BBCWomansHour
She's doing a great job of highlighting a ridiculous and offensive example of erasure of women's health issues
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Israel & Palestine - Peace, Equality, Freedom, Justice
A statement from WPUK
womansplaceuk.org/2023/10/28…
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Selma Taha
Executive Director of Southall Black Sisters.
Dedicated her career to reducing & eliminating violence against women & girls.
Alongside specialist services, SBS's campaigns & research shape policy & law on the issues facing Black & minoritised women.
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Join us...
A Woman's Place is in the press #WPUKPress
Chair: Samira Ahmed
Julie Bindel I Susan Dalgety I Helen Lewis I Susanna Rustin I Sonia Sodha
@SamiraAhmedUK @bindelj @DalgetySusan @helenlewis @SusannaRustin @soniasodha
BOOK HERE
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Debbie Epstein retweeted
Black eyes and bruises are not fashion - this is an insult and hugely triggering for victims and survivors of domestic abuse.
London Fashion Week - do better.
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Delighted CHILDREN OF THE STONE CITY is longlisted @The_UKLA Book Awards for 11-14+. Means it'll be read/discussed intergenerationally over next 6 mths. SA writer friend feels it's my personal manifesto. Think she right. May all weapons of war be turned into musical instruments!
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Debbie Epstein retweeted
Pls RT
I cannot tag everyone I would like to so will mention only a few in hopes that they RT.
This sculpture I own is called ‘The Other Side of Fear’. It was bought for me when I was struggling with health and disability.
In 27 days Phoenix -v- The Open University starts. This sculpture has taken on new meanings.
The woman holding aloft the smaller figure is everyone who has supported me here, irl, via donation.
Thank you
@MForstater @ProfAliceS @bindelj @janeclarejones @8RosarioSanchez @FiLiA_charity @runthinkwrite @legalfeminist @Docstockk @AllianceLGB @WomensRightsNet @LesbianLabour @LabWomenDec @EdinUniAFAF @AFAF_freespeech @CEFA_Women @Womans_Place_UK
Please RT, tag yourself, tag others.
Thank you.
Debbie Epstein retweeted
The ignorance around how hard teachers have to work just to keep their heads above water is staggering at times. The ‘teachers don’t know what hard work is’ mantra, attached to the ‘6 week holidays’ and ‘3.30 finish’ jibes. These are mostly ppl with absolutely no concept of what it takes just to break even as a teacher - the work you have to put in. God, it’s annoying.