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Prof Jo Phoenix

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Prof Jo Phoenix

@JoPhoenix1

Follows n RTs not endorsements. Views all my own. I won my case against The Open University.

Joined November 2011

Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
have received the Tribunal’s judgment in my case against the OU today: I won! The Tribunal found that I was discriminated against and harassed because of my gender critical beliefs, and that I was constructively dismissed.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
Replying to @JoPhoenix1
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who supported be, put some pennies into my crowdjustice, bought me drink, sent me a message of support. THIS IS ALL OUR WIN. WE did this. There will be more tweets tomorrow, but for now I'm off to open a bottle of fizz and try to take it all in.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Mar 13, 2024
UPDATE: The @OpenUniversity and I have agreed a settlement. My legal case against them has now come to a conclusion. I am relieved that there is no need for a remedies hearing. As you know, the panel found in my favour. I am sad that it took nearly 5 years of my life, over
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
This is the AMAZING woman I had fighting my corner with me. We laughed. We cried. We worked bloody hard. AND WE WON.
Leigh Day
@LeighDay_Law
Jan 22, 2024
An Employment Tribunal has found that Prof Jo Phoenix, represented by Annie Powell at Leigh Day, was discriminated against and harassed by her employer, the Open University, because of her gender critical beliefs. She won her claim for constructive dismissal.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
Replying to @JoPhoenix1
The OU failed to protect me “because of fear being seen to support gender critical beliefs”. This is a message to all universities: you cannot stand back and allow gender critical academic to be hounded out their jobs.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Feb 25, 2024
Incorrect Sally. Prostitution related offences are not included in sex offences and would not attract a prison sentence. Happy to help you understand how to read official criminal statistics along with my first year Criminology students. You see there are offence groups and
Sally Hines
@sally_hines
Feb 25, 2024
Typically misleading and hyperbolic. The ‘70%’ is an extremely small % of the prison population. And, in this instance, ‘sex offences’ overwhelmingly mean sex work. If Rowling believes that people should be incarcerated for sex work, her class analysis is as dire as her feminism.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
To everyone who helped.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
THE JUDGEMENT IS IN AND ITS CONCLUSIVE.
Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
have received the Tribunal’s judgment in my case against the OU today: I won! The Tribunal found that I was discriminated against and harassed because of my gender critical beliefs, and that I was constructively dismissed.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 22, 2024
Replying to @JoPhoenix1
The Tribunal found (inter alia!) that I was compared to a racist uncle. My colleagues orchestrated a hostile public campaign against me and gender critical research network with over 360 signing a public letter calling on the OU to close down my research group.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Dec 12, 2024
In which a Professor of Sociology threatens a council worker with “pulling rank”. Not a good look @sally_hines. Not a good look at all.
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
May 18, 2021
1. BREAKING NEWS. After 18 months, University of Essex has concluded its review into the cancellation and disinvitation of me to speak. They have offered me an open apology including for infringing my freedom of speech.
essex.ac.uk
Review of two events involving external speakers | Blog | University of Essex
Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Dec 3, 2021
I resigned from @OpenUniversity last night. The University has allowed things to escalate to a point beyond repair. My trust and heart have been broken. As many of you know, I am taking the OU to the Employment Tribunal and will provide further updates on the case in the next 1/
Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
Jan 25, 2024
Is it my imagination or are there now several academics on this platform scrubbing their feeds of statements like GC = transphobic? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Maybe the Phoenix judgement is being read and it’s got a few of them worried that they might be in the wrong side of employment law?
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Prof Jo Phoenix
@JoPhoenix1
May 20, 2024
A bittersweet congratulations to Roz Adams and her legal team (esp Naomi Cunningham from @legalfeminist and @SexMattersOrg). For those that do not remember: Roz was run out of Edinburgh Rape Crisis after fighting for the rights of a rape victim to have a woman provide .. 1/
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