Thread by @WomensRightsNet

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
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour
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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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Drag queens should not be reading or telling stories to children. Drag or Queer pedagogy is designed to de-stabilise children as explained in this article by Claire Loneragan:
womensrights.network/post/drag-peda…
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour
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Drag queens should not be reading or telling stories to children Just when children are starting to understand the world around them this movement undermines their foundations Perhaps ask yourself why hyper-sexualised men in dresses? womensrights.network/post/on-drag-a…
#SafeguardingFail
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The tide is turning. The Telegraph newspaper has picked up on this story:
archive.ph/0CZll
Now is the time to stop further damage being done to children.
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour
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Were you aware that much of the damaging exposure of children to these sexually explicit men in drag is being carried out at public expense. They are harming our children and we are paying them to do it as set out in this article in the Daily Mail:
archive.ph/skHoR
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Finally if you are wondering what you can do
✍️ Write to
@Tate
Your MP
and sign this petition 👇
ipetitions.com/petition/stop-…
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour
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