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The @Tate recently invited a “storytime drag queen” to perform a half-term show for children. Here is a short thread 🧵explaing why #WRN think drag queens should not be performing for children, with links to articles in support of the arguments
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The Women’s Rights Network has sent this letter to The Prime Minister @UkDowning Ministers at the department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports @DCMS and to the Trustees of the @Tate Galleries
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Drag queens should not be reading or telling stories to children. The performances are touted as being family friendly, but this article by Emma Thomas sets out why this is not true:
womensrights.network/post/the-famil…
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A 🧵We were asked yesterday by a journalist what WRN Scotland had done to campaign against the #GRR Bill here's our list
💚written letters to MSPs &MPs as constituents
🤍Had meetings with MSPs and MPs
💜 provided written feedback to the #GRR bill consultation
#NoToSelfID
💚Attended rallys organised by @ForWomenScot at Holyrood
🤍Fundraised through the WRN to have an advan with the message #NoMenInWomensSpaces
💜Organised for the ad van to drive round Edinburgh at the Rally in Oct
#NoMenInWomensSpaces
Thanks to @moleatthedoor for his help
💚WRN #SaveOurSpaces campaign postcards we're sent to all MSPs
🤍We designed 2 sets of postcards with the message No To Self ID
💜 500 #NoToSelfID postcards were distributed and sent to all MSPs
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Bad drag mega thread. Collecting examples of ‘drag for kids’.
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Texas. A man in drag miming to obscene lyrics about oral sex and f*cking, making obscene gestures and pulling up his dress. Witnessed by a child.
UK. “Sharon Le Grand” tells a family audience at an outdoor performance at the National Theatre in London that: ‘We need to teach our children to open their hearts, teach our children to open their minds... and to teach our children to open their legs.’

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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