I was @Kings_College in the late 80s, and there was an active women's group. One of the events we held was to celebrate 15 years of women having been admitted (in 1972). FIFTEEN YEARS. Five years after I was born. It felt as though barriers had fallen for ever. So...
@Kings_College ...imagine my surprise and dismay to receive an invitation to this year's women's dinner, to celebrate International Women's Day, 'open to all self-defining women and non-binary King's Members', pre-dinner entertainment provided by the Women and Gender Minorities Choir.
@Kings_College So, it's no longer a women's dinner. @Kings_College was founded in 1441. Some 530 years later, women were admitted, and allowed to organize on their own account. That was permitted to continue for about 45 years, and has now come to an end.
@Kings_College Women are now grouped with 'gender minorities' (no definition given) and nonbinary people (no definition given) for a dinner to mark #IWD. Attendees literally do not have even to 'identify' as women in order to attend. The category is now meaningless.
@Kings_College I would be v interested to know how @Kings_College treat the category of 'woman' for the purposes of data collection. Among other things. But aside from the administrative nightmare this bogus recategorisation creates, this travesty is actively undoing that work...
@Kings_College ...put in and the sacrifices made by generations of women who fought for the right to equal education. It's a massive, unforgivable insult. Shame on you, @Kings_College, and before you bleat about its being organized by students and the 'Gender Equality Officers' of the union...
@Kings_College ...you need to look at what you are teaching people at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, and if nothing else, consider how it might affect your alumni donations. You can cross me off your Xmas call list, for a start.
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