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Last night we ran a call on MISOGYNY on The BACK LOUNGE and we were zoom bombed. I’d heard about it happening on 12 step and minority meetings, but in 4 years we’ve never had it on our lovely safe community we host weekly to support anyone in music & events. A group of people joined and rapidly took over, shouting vile hateful language, playing loud white noise and naming us and screen sharing offensive images. We kept the zoom going and methodically removed them as fast as we could. If you’ve ever been witness to anything like this, it’s pretty horrific and an assault on all your senses - the whole thing lasted maybe 4 minutes, but believe me it felt like a long 4 minutes. Afterwards, with 10 of us left, we decided to carry on and thankfully others re-joined and we ran the call as planned. A huge thanks to everyone who was with us and who’ve sent messages since. We appreciate you. And to our guests Estella Adeyeri, Vanessa & Jojo Offshoot and Denise Devenish for holding us through it, thanks for the beautiful circle we created, despite the arseholes who tried unsuccessfully to end our call. It just makes me more determined to host calls like this, clearly they’re needed. Love & Respect, Suzi and The BACK LOUNGE