roadlesstraveller ... on the road to substack

I have moved up in the blogging world to the platform du jour that is Substack.

From now on my posts will be at https://roadlesstraveller.substack.com  

Green Party Women EGM on discrimination against gender-critical Greens

The Green Party suspended my membership for two years, 2021 to 2023, for alleged transphobia and anti-semitism. All the charges were dismissed in April 2023. (For more see flimsy-evidence and vindicated-at-last and Cancel-culture-Green-Party.)

Green Party Women convened an EGM on 1 August 2023, part of which was to hear stories from members about discrimination for having gender-critical views. Here is what I said to the EGM.

the flimsy evidence in my Green Party case

The Green Party suspended my membership for two years, 2021 to 2023, for alleged transphobia and anti-semitism. All the charges were dismissed in April 2023. I have blogged about this already: about the result at vindicated-at-last-green-party and about the process up to the hearing of the complaint at Cancel-culture-Green-Party.

Speech to Colchester Cabinet about Outhouse

This is my speech in the HaveYourSay slot to Colchester City Council Cabinet Meeting on Wed 12 July 2023.  It starts at 16:35 minutes and ends at 20:05 minutes. 

Outhouse LGBTQ+ lobby group based in Colchester

Outhouse, based in Colchester, has total reserves of £911,511 and its income has risen by over 50% a year from 2019 to 2022, as shown in this Charity Commission graph. 

Don't throw Foucault out with the Judith Butler bathwater

While I like Helen Pluckrose and agree with much of Critical Cynical Theories, here is an antithesis from the Genspect Bigger Picture Conference last month. 

Heather Brunskell-Evans, a Quaker and a philosopher, explains why we shouldn’t throw the Foucault baby out with the Judith Butler bathwater. The Confluence of Philosophy, Feminism & Queer Theory. 

Also at Genspect Bigger Picture Conference: Gender Ideology as a Religion with Colette Colfer.

Quakers in Britain Yearly Meeting 1 July 2023

I attended today’s late ‘supplementary’ session of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) - www.quaker.org.uk/ym - which is effectively the AGM of Quakers in Britain. This year, BYM took place as usual in April but - unusually - there was an extra day added on, which was today.

2022 audited accounts still not ready

The main reason for holding today’s late supplementary meeting was because fully audited accounts were not ready by the scheduled BYM date in late April. With many apologies and a reassurance that nothing funny was going on, the BYM trustees announced today that the accounts were still not ready but they would be ready in time for the Charity Commission deadline on 31 October. The question arises, why wasn’t today’s supplementary meeting scheduled for a date when fully audited accounts would be ready?