There is a growing list of women who are being harassed/intimidated into silence or out of work/roles for speaking up for women's sex-based rights. Below are just a few examples. Thank you @jk_rowling and everyone who is speaking up for women. #womenwontwheest#IStandWithJKR /1
@jk_rowling Michele Moore, targeted because of her campaigning on rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) and the rights and safeguarding of children. /2 womansplaceuk.org/2019/06/21/in-…
Lisa Mackenzie, subject to disciplinary procedures at work for contributing to an academic article /4 womansplaceuk.org/2021/06/22/pol…
Ann Henderson, targeted in both the Labour Party and in her role as Rector for Edinburgh University for supporting women's activism womansplaceuk.org/2021/06/09/ann… /5
Joan Smith, targeted in her role as Co-Chair of the Mayor London's VAWG panel for asking questions women want answered womansplaceuk.org/2021/08/23/rei… /7
These names are just a few of the women being targeted at work - and in organisations they have helped to build - for the crime of asking questions and for speaking up for women. But women will not be silenced. We will be heard. /End
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Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of our first ever public event, A Woman's Place is on the Platform in Cambridge. You can watch films of the speakers here. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Welcome to our new followers. This is who we are; this is what we stand for; this is what we want womansplaceuk.org
Woman’s Place UK is a group of women from a range of backgrounds who are united by our belief that women’s hard-won rights must be defended. This is our manifesto womansplaceuk.org/wpuk-manifesto…
Women face entrenched and endemic structural inequality. This is reflected, for example, in the high levels of sexual harassment and violence against women and girls, the 'gender' pay gap, and discrimination at work. Image (c) @wondersbec
This time, four years ago, we were starting our meeting in Cambridge: A Woman's Place is on the platform. This event was organised to offer Linda Bellos a platform after she was 'uninvited' from speaking at a student event. This is the film of her speech
Anne Ruzylo had recently been subjected to an orchestrated campaign against her, prompting the entire executive committee of her Constituency Labour Party to resign in solidarity. She spoke about this and her work in women’s prisons.
And our final film from our first ever meeting in Cambridge which took place 4 years ago tonight: Helen Steel spoke movingly of the relentless abuse women are subjected to in our daily lives & how it restricts our freedom.
The impetus for this meeting came when Linda Bellos was ‘uninvited’ by a student society of a Cambridge college at which she had been due to speak.
We decided to invite her to speak in Cambridge and we were honoured when she agreed. /2 varsity.co.uk/news/13638
In the weeks leading up to the event, we heard of more women being shunned, intimidated, smeared and silenced for their views about gender and we asked them to speak too.
Helen Steel had been threatened at the Anarchist Bookfair. /3
Thread. Yesterday Lords debated the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, including amendment that to record the sex and acquired gender of alleged victims and perpetrators of crime 1/4 hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-11-…
We dispute government position from Baroness Williams, that recording sex of perpetrators would be unlawful. 2/4
We commissioned legal opinion on this issue which we shared with EHRC and other interested bodies 3/4 womansplaceuk.org/2020/12/11/ehr…
Good to see this article on freedom of expression from @ucl President & Provost Dr Michael Spence: “UCL hosted the Woman’s Place UK Women’s Liberation 2020 Conference, which included gender-critical views that many in our community find unacceptable…” /1 uclporticomagazine.co.uk/spotlights-and…
“The event was able to go ahead and those who opposed it were able to protest and be heard, and that seems to me to be a victory for free speech.” /2