Jenny Lindsay

Jenny Lindsay is a poet and spoken word performer, as well as an independent programmer and promoter of poetry, live literature and spoken word.

Inside the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre scandal

Roz Adams is not a public figure. She is not on social media. Yet this hardworking rape crisis support worker has found herself at the centre of the Scottish gender wars over the last few months, due to her employment tribunal against the beleaguered Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC). It all makes for a rather

Why was I hounded for speaking up for women’s rights?

The evening of 2 June 2019 is something of a ‘sliding doors’ moment in my life. I had just read a column in a local arts magazine called The Skinny, written by a notorious gender identity activist. In it, the columnist justified violent action against lesbians at Pride marches, defending tweets in which they had