What was discussed at #FiLiA2021 🧵👇

How important music is to women in Iran (a place where women can be arrested for dancing)

How to bridge the divide between younger & older feminists

How to help in the fight to get prostitution charges expunged from women’s…
… criminal records

What we can do to help women fleeing the #TigrayGenocide

How women from all political parties can support each other to make sure women are included in policy & law

The onslaught of abuse women politicians face & how we can fight back & demand better…
…from tech companies that allow abuse to flourish on social media

Femicide in Russia, India & Zimbabwe - & how we can help each other across the globe to fight the murder of women and girls from cradle to grave

What is happening to lesbian woman in Block 13 …
… of the Kakuma refugee camp where they are being raped, beaten & murdered because they are lesbians

How we can fight here in the UK for lesbians & bisexual women to be given asylum

How we support women with NRPF who are fleeing abuse & stuck in our hostile environment..
How to stay courageous when your livelihood is threatened & your friends are scared to talk to you in case they are also accused of bigotry

How it feels to speak your truth & be told you are hateful & nasty & ugly & sent death/rape threats that are credible & serious
How women who fight back and murder their abusers in self defence are vilified in the press, given longer sentences then men who kill women, & ignored when they tell of the abuse they endured.

How WOC have their culture dismissed, minimised or considered ‘incidental’…
…to the type of oppression and abuse they suffer.

How to keep on making resistance art when you are cancelled, blocked, deplatformed & targeted

How to make sure academia remains a place of free speech & critical thinking, & academic work on women is not blocked
How do we make sure that detransitioners have a voice & make sure children do not do irreversible damage to their bodies that they come to regret

How do we build bridges between feminist & our trans friends & family so that they know we do not hate them as they have been told
What a was NOT discussed at #FiLiA2021

Any hatred of trans people or wish to remove their human rights

Any belief that trans people do not or should not exist

Any support for fascism

(And we did all that whilst men outside told us to suck their cocks & called us cunts)

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10 Aug
The silence from mainstream women’s orgs about this is deafening. Are they all going to sit there and pretend that ‘challenging’ women on their ‘bigotry’ when accessing a rape crisis centre & requesting a woman is ok? That asking a rape victim to ‘reframe their trauma’ is ok?
The more I think about this the more angry I get. I was made to 're-frame my trauma' as somehow being my fault because, in the words of the policeman we called, 'victims and abusers chose each other from across a crowded room'. I was made to feel that I was responsible..
...and was somehow inevitably going to end up at that point because of MY OWN PERSONALITY. To suggest women asking for women when in active trauma should be 'educated' and made to 'check their privilege' is abhorrent. Therapy is NEVER political - as suggested in the exchange.
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