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Dr. Christine Gaffney launching our inaugural event Speak up for Women's Rights. #IrishWomensLobby, #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWL2021. I'm not sure if it is too late to register but here is the link if you want to try irishwomenslobby.ie/speak-up-for-w…

Ruth Breslin up now speaking about the sex trade. Many are young, 1/3rd advertised as between ages 18-25. Many migrants. Severe financial pressures suffered by the women.
#SpeakUpforWomensRights

Ruth Breslin reading out some buyer reviews. Very revealing of the mindset.

Women have little control. #SpeakUpforWomensRights

Stella O'Malley, psychotherapist. up now. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

Stella O'Malley speaking about her experience growing up as gender dysphoric, her documentary Trans Kids- it's Time to Talk, and the silencing of debate. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

Stella talking about why girls might want to transition. Restrictive roles. Sexual harrassment. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

Stella talking about the importance of role models, and the lack of Lesbian role models. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

Annette McKay up now talking about the Tuam mother and baby home and institutionalisation of women. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

Speaking about the problems with the recent report. There may never be a proper investigation of how the state abandoned the care of these women. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

Annette's mother gave birth to a baby in Tuam mother and baby home. She was told the baby had died. She only told the story at 70. Society had silenced and shamed these women. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

"When women are silenced and shamed abuse follows" Annette McKay #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Rachel Moran up now. Speaking about the Dublin slums. Pointing out how near to us this history is. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Rachel's aunt explained why she left Ireland in the 60's: sick of looking at barefoot children picking food out of bins. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Working class women not consulted about material reality of their own lives #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Question re wesbites facilitating sex-trade. Getting around legislation by registering in another countries but could be blocked here. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Stella answering question regarding why girls want to transition. Girls searching for power, confidence and strength by wanting to transition. Also possibly disconnecting from own sexuality. Looking for tribe to fit into. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

What is next regarding the Tuam mother and Baby Home scandal? One thing is trying to make the testimonies accessible. Annette planning to come to Ireland with army of supporters trying to do something about this whole issue. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Rachel encouraging women to carry on and how to proceed in the face of fear. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Miriam Kivlehan introducing the international panel now. Exciting to see new women's groups forming. Over 500 attending this conference online. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Julie Bindel up now. need to recognise where the push-back against women and feminism. Men in the past also pushed back against women only spaces, so not just a recent phenomenon #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Women only spaces important so that women can open up about violent and sexual assault by men. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Julie Bindel: One thing that women around the world share is the fear and reality of male violence. This is why we have single-sex spaces. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Rapes reported in Britain 1.5% get to court. So only about 1% of all rapes end up in conviction. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Julie gets greeted at meeting by protesting crowds "shouting Blow jobs are real jobs" etc. Speaking about extreme trans rights movement. The more we are silent the worse it will get. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Klara Berglund up now. A two-font war on women and girls. First front- conservative and far-right backlash. Focus on limiting right to sex education and reproductive rights. Getting rid of gender studies. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Second front. Pro gender movement. Post-modern turn towards identities rather than sex or class. Reframed women's right to control over their own body as the right to sell your body. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Much the same methods as the conservative front. But also no-platforming, name-calling and targetting young feminists. Shows "destroy my pussy, not my planet" sign held by young woman on demo. Surrogacy sold as empowering women. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

The pro-women movement is fighting back against both of these trends. Believe in sex-based rights. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Yağmur Uyharkizi, of RadicalGirlss up now. Speaking about what happened in Paris yesterday (anti-sex industry women attacked). #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Very interesting point. We are told violence against women has already existed so it is like a God, who has always existed and never will end. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Just as there are no ghettos for women there is no promised land. Women have lost a sense of self, so identify with every other cause except out own. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy, up now #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Women in university likely to find feminism in colleges which is steeped in identity and a lot of focus on guilt. Immediate positivity she might feel goes away and instead the movement makes her feel slightly abashed. Class never mentioned. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021

Thinking in mantras and suppressing thoughts. Defaming and no-platforming of women who speak up about women-specific issues and that they might have their own interests which can clash with others. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Influence of post-structuralism on humanities. Some have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as women and girls. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

The more a group identifies as a community the harder it is to speak out and go against the grain. (She was talking here about university managers presenting universities as a nice safe community) #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Gail Dines up now. Radical feminists not fun feminists. :) #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

The domestication of the internet made porn more affordable, accessible and annonymous. Porn sites get more visitors than Netflix amazon and twitter combined. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Concentration of industry. Most consumed (about 80%) comes through MindGeek based in Montreal. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Pornhub daily average of 100 million visitors. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Study from 2010 found that 90% of most watched scenes contained at least one act of aggression. Now 100% (study about to be published) #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021g

Only fans. Founded in 2016 in Britain. Has 90 million users. Women subject to doxing, death threats, content being stolen and put up on pornhub. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Shows picture of anti-porn march in the past. Women talking about liberation not personal empowerement of more privileged women. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Need to declare war on faux feminism which sides with the patriarchy. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Q.What would be the consequences of single sex spaces being made obselete? Bindel: lose right to organise as women, devestating effect on murder stats. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Question for Klara re 2 pronged-attack. We need to show commonalities between postmodernist and conservative attacks on women. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Yağmur Uyharkizi: Women have to pay a price anyway, so why not the price of freedom? #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Kathleen Stock, join grassroots groups, even outside of the university and maybe you can bring it in to the universities later. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Gail Dines Capitalism shapes their need and imposes it on women. Women finding it hard to have a sense of themselves outside of the pornified culture. On older women to go out and help the younger women. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021

Thanks everyone for attending the conference and following my tweets. Hard to do it justice in tweets. It is the first time I've live-tweeted from an event. Thanks so much to all the speakers. Goodnight have a great Int. Women's Day. #SpeakUpforWomensRights #IWD2021 #IWL2021