Ooh! A new novel by Ian Macpherson! The excitement! And look at that dedication. I'm... ahem...delighted! Buy here: booksunbridled.bigcartel.com

Dedicated to all the women in the media and beyond indulging Izzard.

“For ministers, the lengthy judgment, and the hostile, Kafkaesque environment described in it will make for uneasy reading. It holds a mirror to the gender war in which their allegiance is already pledged to the unreasonable and intolerant.”
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My younger self watching Izzard in a London comedy club sometime in the early 90s would have been appalled to know this callousness, self-absorption, brutal dismissiveness of women's reality, lay ahead. And that some women would encourage it. (Well maybe not the self-absorption.)

And read this, from a woman who has lived this history.

All you need to destroy an organisation is a Chair with advanced Dunning-Kruger and a Chief Exec only concerned with covering his /her arse

This👇🏼 by someone who understands websites, exposes Literature Alliance Scotland’s account of how its guidance urging bookshops to ban books by ‘Terfs’ (feminists) ended up on its website.
The society and its funder Creative Scotland have to take responsibility for their role in fostering a

So not 'both sides' then?

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Shauny Boy The same Creative Scotland which withdrew funding from Edinburgh Deaf Festival - the Edinburgh Deaf Festival? Surely not? Matteo Cerri McCormack #Deaf community groups receive little support as it is

Literature Alliance Scotland I’m not confused or offended. I’m waiting for you to clearly state you don’t believe in book banning and that women existing as a discreet group who are allowed their own things isn’t bigotry.

You there, boy! What books have Literature Alliance Scotland banned today?

that such a life inevitably would bring to either pretend things I don't believe or to feel compromised. There are far more sensible things to do with your life than dedicate it to the lit arts; to do so and compromise on objective truth was, for me, impossible. So,that's why. 😅

When people ask why I still speak out despite losing my livelihood: I didn't lose my vocation alongside it. I care deeply about a healthy lit culture & contributing to one was what used to get me out of bed in the morning. I didn't become a writer, accepting the instability 1/