Vanessa Thorpe at the Guardian reported yesterday on the shunning of Selina Todd. She did it in a very cautious, fearful way.

Already at the subhead things are peculiar.

Anger as Oxford historian Selina Todd is forced to pull out of speaking at Ruskin anniversary conference

No, anger as Oxford historian Selina Todd is removed from her scheduled speaking slot at Ruskin anniversary conference. She wasn’t “forced to pull out,” whatever that would mean, she was told she couldn’t do it. Selina Todd is not the one who “pulled out”; she was removed.

The alleged “no platforming” of feminist historian Selina Todd the night before the conference prompted loud protests from the packed hall at the former site of

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I'm watching this @womenslib_50 https://t.co/K0dJ8TSigc and the organisers are misrepresenting me. I have written responses to this on the YouTube channel.

— Selina Todd (@selina_todd) February 29, 2020

The organisers claim I was uncommunicative when they offered a longer discussion last night. Untrue.

— Selina Todd (@selina_todd) February 29, 2020

I'd attend and my head of dept would speak. I couldn't do that because I'd explained we were going home at 6.

— Selina Todd (@selina_todd) February 29, 2020

The organizer did indeed make heavy weather of that, and did make it sound as if Todd had done something sly or unreasonable by not replying.

They told me Feminist Fightback among others had asked that I be disinvited and

My Twitter has much conversation about the rude last minute censoring and EXCLUSION of Selina Todd. (All caps because of the irony of the constant yapping about “inclusion” while excluding a feminist woman scholar from a feminist event because she doesn’t Center men in her feminism.)

There’s no better way to mark women’s liberation than to liberate a woman who knows what a woman is from her platform to speak pic.twitter.com/6OBESFwWWY

— Elle (@elleandback) February 29, 2020

The exclusion was so abrupt and last minute that they had to whiteout her name on the printed schedule.

.@selina_todd is a national treasure. Generations of working class women and girls will benefit from Selina's amazing feminism. You can't shut us all

Another shameful headline:

Exeter lecturer accused of ‘transphobia’ for saying ‘only females menstruate’

Sometimes the stupid feels like a swamp of thick muddy stinking muck closing over your head. Of course only females menstruate. Only females gestate infants, so only females need to menstruate. Only men inseminate, only women menstruate. It’s like the first page of the sex ed book. What the hell is wrong with people, flinging accusations at people for saying something so obvious and basic and accurate and pointless to deny?

An Exeter lecturer has been accused of transphobia after a series of tweets sent from a private account were uncovered.

“Uncovered” – why? By whom? By what right? Are women not allowed to talk in private? … Read the rest

Another one.

We are appalled to hear that the Women's Liberation at 50 event has disinvited @selina_todd. It is their loss. We are honoured to be associated with her and we are all lucky that she is at the centre of the Women's Liberation Movement today.

— Womans_Place_UK (@Womans_Place_UK) February 28, 2020

Here is @selina_todd speaking at our London meeting A Woman's Place is back in town https://t.co/evuE6ccLNj #IStandwithSelina

— Womans_Place_UK (@Womans_Place_UK) February 28, 2020

About the event:

Join us for this anniversary event celebrating 50 years since the first Women’s Liberation Conference!

Held on the site of the former Ruskin college – the original venue for the 1970 conference – the day will be packed full of