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RA Should Reinstate Jess's Work and Issue a Public Apology

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Censorship has no place in an artistic institution.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Sounds like a knee-jerk, fear based reaction from the RA. Hopefully somebody will look at this in more detail and realise the allegations are baseless. The clock is ticking though, they can’t leave it hanging much longer.

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Michelle Dibble
5 years ago

Kick out Stonewall

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Geoff Jones
5 years ago

Shameful decision. Ms de Wahls is entitled to her opinion that sex is a material reality, without being penalized.

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Simon
5 years ago

This action by the RA is deeply intolerant, reactionary and utterly reprehensible. Shame on you. Ms De Wahls Is owed an apology.

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Carolyn Simon
5 years ago

I'm an RA Friend - appalled that the RA had this knee-jerk reaction to complaints against Jess, without checking the facts

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Anthony Ashplant
5 years ago

Jess’s works should be reinstated in the RA shop immediately and she should receive an apology.

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Clyde
5 years ago

This is completely unacceptable. You don't seem to have a problem with a Hockney exhibition, when he promotes smoking as a cure for COVID! Madness

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Vicky
5 years ago

I don’t understand why my comment (drawing a comparison between the works of Tracey Emin, currently on show at The RA and Jess’s words ) has been removed, yet the abusive comment made by AJ Adair is allowed to remain. Perhaps I too should have made my comment misogynistic instead of wondering why the RA couldn’t differentiate between one female artist demonstrating the physiology of a woman’s body in paint and another female artist expressing the physiology of a woman’s body in words.

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Aileen Pengelly
5 years ago

Art, not politics

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Paula Black
5 years ago

Stop silencing women’s voices.

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sandy porter
5 years ago

RA should stick to art . 2 friends will not now be renewing their RA friends membership unless they change their stance.

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Liz Cooper
5 years ago

The hounding of women (always women) accused of ‘transphobia’ is part of a misogynistic ‘men’s rights’ incel cult. That’s the end of me buying anything in the RA shop.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

biological sex is real, important, immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity. This fact has upheld by the High Court.

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AJ Adair
5 years ago

Y'all are bigots and TERFs, and butthurt that your bigotry is no longer socially acceptable. Trans rights are human rights and you are on the wrong side of history.

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Michael House
5 years ago

Disgraceful behaviour by the RA. The trans bullies must be resisted. Disagreement is not hate speech.

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Julie Evans
5 years ago

Great textile artist. What on earth are you thinking? Still selling the Eric Gill books?

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James
5 years ago

Stop hateful persecution of Jess de Wahls.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Jess's views are not transphobic and are legal, shame on you.

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Anonymous
5 years ago

Stop silencing women who refuse to adopt regressive views on gender roles. Stop punishing women who believe in science and understand that dysphorias don't change fundamental human biology.