SussexMatters by Eric Lybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya Facts related to the University of Sussex protests beginning 7 Oct 2021 en-us 2021-10-18 08:57:14 UTC 2025-10-11 14:36:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f351.png Anti-Terf Sussex group announces protest ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823643098 2021-10-18 09:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823643098 Initial Reports of 'Burning Effigies' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823693480 2021-10-18 09:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823693480 07 Oct - Stock reports something is happening ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823700096 2021-10-18 10:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823700096 Posters appear on walls of train platform - taken down by locals and/or security ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823708435 2021-10-18 10:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823708435 Anti-Terf group posts letter on Instagram ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823718739 2021-10-18 10:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823718739 Times demands we stand up to 'student bullies' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823721404 2021-10-18 10:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823721404 Guardian reports on Academic Freedom citing VC Adam Tickell's support ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823723360 2021-10-18 10:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823723360 Spiked Online weighs in against 'intolerant trans activist' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823724564 2021-10-18 10:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823724564 Daily Mail reports Stock is being 'hounded by trans rights mob' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823725891 2021-10-18 10:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823725891 Stock describes getting off train and turning around for home. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823726554 2021-10-18 10:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823726554 Threats of violence claim shifts from 'effigies' to 'balaclavas', 'bombs', 'etc.' Social Media users begin reporting multiple crimes to Sussex police. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823732898 2021-10-18 10:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823732898 Universities Minister Michelle Donelan defends Stock claiming HE Bill will prevent Free Speech issues in future. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823780695 2021-10-18 10:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823780695 VC Adam Tickell defends Stock against protest 'designed to attack' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823782963 2021-10-18 10:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823782963 Sussex UCU release statement against transphobia and harrassment - Stock says this effectively 'ends her career'. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823784915 2021-10-18 10:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823784915 Sex Matters pens letter to EHRC chair Kishwer Falkner ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823788505 2021-10-18 10:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823788505 13 Oct - Sussex student officer Amelia Jones appears in discussion on BBC ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823794401 2021-10-18 11:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823794401 14 Oct - Stock claims Jones lied - and that a 'correction' was made by BBC ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823796918 2021-10-18 11:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823796918 Stock withdraws from teaching this semester. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823799250 2021-10-18 11:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823799250 13 Oct - UCU affirms Sussex UCU statement which 'makes clear its opposition to harassment and bullying of staff and students' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823876514 2021-10-18 11:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823876514 Philosophers write letter of Solidarity with the University of Sussex for defending Stock ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823881413 2021-10-18 11:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823881413 Suzanne Moore reports 'Stock has been hounded out of her job' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823884298 2021-10-18 11:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823884298 14 Oct - Letter circulates amongst academic staff and alumni condemn 'posters and stickers calling for her to be fired' noting 'we stand' with Stock, including her interpretation that 'sex' is legally separate from rights of trans people (with gender reassignment) - currently 2500+ signatures ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823892692 2021-10-18 12:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823892692 UCU officials are subjected to targeted harassment - accused of being 'witchfinders' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823908387 2021-10-18 12:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823908387 16 Oct - 240 academics submit letter to EHRC, reported in the Times. Demand a 'Reindorf Review' for the entire university sector to stop imposition of 'radical gender orthodoxy' and to 'prevent discrimination against those who recognise that sex is a protected characteristic' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823916327

]]> 2021-10-18 12:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823916327 18 Oct - Mumsnet encourages mass reporting of Stock's harassment via the University's anti-abuse tool. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823923686 2021-10-18 12:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823923686 16 Oct - Students hold a second, somewhat larger, peaceful protest. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823928488 Accused of 'quasi military look - black hoodie with assault rifle motif']]> 2021-10-18 12:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823928488 The Economist reports 'campaign of harassment against Stock' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823930956 2021-10-18 12:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823930956 Letter against UCU's handling of matter printed in Times ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823934406 2021-10-18 12:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823934406 Times reports 'trans row' and 'Assault on the Academy' ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823935708 2021-10-18 12:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823935708 Matt Goodwin argues those staying silent are complicit. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823940078 2021-10-18 12:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823940078 Times publishes an 'expose' on the 'cloak and dagger' student campaign. ericlybeck https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823963816 2021-10-18 12:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ericlybeck/h4vpf1zxz02e8lya/wish/1823963816