Thread by @WeAreFairCop

Meet @OpenClasp

Open Clasp are a women's theatre group based in the north of England.

From their website: "Our aim is to Change the World, One Play at a Time by placing theatre at the heart of transforming the lives of disadvantage (sic) women* and girls.*"

[our asterisks]

"We make truthful, risk-taking and award-winning theatre informed by the lived experiences of women* disenfranchised in theatre and society, those from minority communities and women* affected by the criminal justice system."
"Our women*-centred practice collaborates..." cont.d

"... with women* to draw out their collective voices and shine a light on their experiences.

We create powerful professional theatre and perform to wide-ranging audiences. We encourage our audiences to walk in the shoes of the women* and make space for debate." [hollow laugh]

They work with Durham Constabulary (why are we not surprised) and say this, also on their website:

Open Clasp's logo even features the Venus symbol, for females. Look!

*Can you see where we're going with this...?

A member of Open Clasp received an email from them this week, inviting them to a women only event, with the sender's pronouns proudly declared to be she/her.

Our correspondent asked whether this meant they bought into gender ideology and in fact the woman-centred theatre group misrepresented transwomen as women.

She added, for reasons of personal safety and peace of mind, she did not want to attend if there were males present.

Yes, she was told by @OpenClasp, TWAW and they were sorry to hear that this meant our correspondent might not be inclined to continue engaging with them.

Also startling was Open Clasp's parting shot:

"We fight for and with those who experience discrimination including racism, disableism, poverty, transphobia, transmisogyny and homophobia"

Just not plain old misogyny - that's so passé.

So here we have a women's charity pretending males are women, gaslighting women into knocking down their boundaries whilst working with vulnerable women, purporting to understand domestic abuse, coercive control & attempting to help women affected by the criminal justice system,

often there because of exposure to male violence in the first place.

We're so fed up @OpenClasp

We want to support women's charities. We want to help you.

We just wish you wanted to help women.

It would be great if @OpenClasp could acknowledge that including everyone will naturally exclude some of the vulnerable women and girls you were set up to help, who most need to be there.