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Kellie-Jay Keen doused in soup. Again.
Kellie-Jay Keen, who is also known as Posie Parker, has been doused in tomato soup, again.
The founder and organiser of Let Women Speak events was originally targeted in New Zealand after Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto branded her a Nazi or Nazi sympathiser. That happened after the Melbourne rally in March 2023.
Over the past weekend, another violent male resorted to the same tactics, approaching her from behind and poured the soup over head.
The 34-year-old man then attempted to flee the scene but was chased by fellow women's rights campaigners and police later took him away in handcuffs.
MailOnline can reveal that the man who targeted Ms Keen is Ben Lindsay, a graduate who boasts online about being Southampton Solent's first Student Equality & Diversity associate - despite not having been employed there since 2018.
South Yorkshire Police have confirmed that Lindsay, from Barnsley, has been charged with two counts of assault by beating and will appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court on November 25.
Ms Keen, who was also targeted with soup during her Let Women Speak tour across Australia and New Zealand last year, told MailOnline: 'I felt quite defiant. It's so silly because it's just soup, but I just felt then it doesn't really matter what they do.
'They've just proven my point, and we have to get on with this and let women speak.'
The Let Women Speak events are an open mic event held in public places. The invitation is for any woman to share her experience or thoughts about living in a society that wants to silence women, especially women who stand for sex-based rights, spaces, services and sport.
Ms Keen attracts large crowds and often very large counter protests by trans identified men and their supporters. She is never intimidated by their presence and her catch cry is “I never lose”.
Comparing the two incidents, she told MailOnline: 'The last time it happened to me, it provoked the mob that had already assembled to level up if you like and I genuinely thought I was going to lose my life that day, which sounds very hyperbolic but completely true. I thought if I hit the floor, I'll never get up.
'That was the point of what he was doing with the soup [this time], it's all tied up in intimidating women so we don't feel like we can speak in public.'
Ms Keen said it feels 'very strange' when a substance is poured over you, adding: 'It takes more than a couple seconds for your brain to process what it is.'
The campaigners continued the rally but Ms Keen hit out at the police for failing to look out for women's safety.
She said: 'It just feels from an operational level that our safety is not taken very seriously. The threat of the trans activists is not taken very seriously.'
Ms Keen believes the trans activism is 'rife in the universities', adding: 'I think it's very frightening how much power this cult seems to yield.'
Ben Lindsay from Barnsley, was arrested by police shortly afterwards. He has been released on bail with a court appearance scheduled for November 25.
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