Woke Waste round up

Here's how your hard-earned money is being spent by the "Conservative" Party

£939,368 - FemIDEAS: Decolonising Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education - at the University of Westminster Centre for Social Justice Research
Funder: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Woke Waste: Project about “decolonising sexual and gender-based violence” in HE; includes “lived experience advisory group”; and stands for “Feminist, Intersectional, Decolonisation, Equality, Abolition, Survivor-centred”.

My piece today here:

£614,582 - Soho Theatre
Funder: Arts Council England (ACE)
Woke Waste: Discussions of “top surgery” and pronouns on its social media (“I did cut the tits off”):

Identity politics galore - Pansexual Pregnant Piracy and 52 Monologues for Young Transexuals.

Has a comedy show that where “White audience members are encouraged to check their privilege at the door”:

£250,000, Vercida (a “tech platform aimed at jobseekers looking to work for employers that place diversity, inclusion and well-being at the top of the agenda”)
Funder: Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Woke Waste: Published blog claiming Napoleonic Wars were part of “queer history”; has Stonewall on its website and articles such as Creating safe and supportive spaces at the DWP.

More here:

£15 million - The Globe
Funder: ACE
Woke Waste: Turned Joan of Arc into a “non-binary” person in its production I, Joan; publishes a gender identity resource list; recommends Mermaids, Stonewall and Gendered Intelligence as charities/ places to get advice.

Piece here:

£800,000 - University of Roehampton
Funder: UKRI
Woke Waste: Facilitating a project that says the “disproportionate representation” of William Shakespeare in the theatre has propagated “white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male narratives”. Piece here:

Obviously this is just the tip of the Wokeberg when it comes to the UKRI - more here and here, as well as my thread on X:

£600,000 - BBC diversity drive
Woke Waste: Taxpayer money for “diversity and inclusion” roles, according to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.

Article here

£50k - BBC comedy scheme
Woke Waste: Total number of funds for one of its comedy schemes, which invites “under-represented groups” to apply (using a rigid, woke definition).

Previous winners are an organisation “developing women, gender minorities and queer voices in comedy in Northern Ireland”; another a “North East-based comedy organisation supporting LGBTQ+ comedians by extending their programme to focus on workshops for LGBTQ+comedy performers in the region”.

Article here

£16,828,042 - Southbank Centre
Funder: ACE
Woke Waste: Shows including: Pxssy Liquor's Office Christmas Party, ““a cabaret collective for queer gals and nb [non-binary] pals” that provides an “antidote to the male-gaze saturated cabaret scene”.

Little Big Sing with Trans Voices, marketed for 5+:

“After witnessing the growing anti-trans rhetoric specifically aimed at children, both artists felt an urgent need to effect change and create a provision for mental wellness through music.”

“a tour around the human body with trans non-binary emergency doctor Dr Ronx”, for ages 6-9.

Recent article about Ronx:

£20 million (2022-23 report) - National Maritime Museum
Funder: DCMS

Woke Waste: Obsession with identity politics:

A Queer Love Tokens workshop including a chat “about historical queers” (for ages 12+):

My piece in January:

There’ll be more in due course…

Stay awoken, friends.