Correcting a blindspot - Leeds meeting organised by Lisa Muggeridge and others

[LangCleg]

This event is in Leeds on 1st August. Organised by MN favourite, Lisa Muggeridge. A slightly different emphasis to WPUK and WNTT in that it's trying to tie together all the fronts that women are fighting on.

Here's the event page:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/correcting-a-blindspot-women-talking-tickets-47717202437

And here are the topics and speakers:

Kate Belgrave will be discussing the impact of public sector cuts and how difficult it is to get media attention to focus on the systems at stake.

Lisa Muggeridge will be discussing the policy makers, academia and media view of our benefits system, systems that protect from violence, child protection and social care.

Miranda Yardley will be discussing female erasure.

Claire Graham will be comparing two sets of statutory guidance for schools, to illustrate the impact of this blindspot.

We have supplementary speakers from fields including child protection and domestic, campaigners against the Spearmint Rhino in Sheffield, and people who want to discuss the managed zone in Holbeck.

Related Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/Correcting-a-blindspot-Women-Talking-1739047042869701/

I think this looks fabulous. All the topics are right up my alley and I think we do start needing to see the bigger picture in what I feel is a war on women on multiple fronts.

Excellent news. I will be there with bells on!

This is such a good idea. It provides the wider context for what is happening.

Anyone who is local?
Be nice to meet up with someone beforehand so I'm not such a Billy no-mates

I’d love this, shame it’s a distance away. Good on you, women for organising it!

One week. One week in the year that I'm away.

Local lass here 👍

From the event page:

Women's voices are powerful and in this instance correcting a blindspot that has existed at the heart of politics forever.

Classic Muggeridge! She's not wrong.

I would absolutely love to go to this; not sure if I can due to travel costs & caring responsibilities. Bugger. Kate Belgrave is amazing and Lisa is my hero. I will definitely have a scheme & think how I can get there.

Oooh this sounds good.

Anyone who doesn't know Kate Belgrave from anti-austerity work, her website is here:

www.katebelgrave.com/

She's fabulous.

Off topic, but that letter from Newham Council to a single mother on Kate Belgrave's homepage There are no words.

recent thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3284251-Lisa-Muggeridge-Suspended-by-Twitter-and-Quoting-her-breaches-MN-Guidelines

Hope to get to that.

Yay it's local, just hope I can attend

Hi all

Have posted the link to this on the other place too.

I'm in the next city along, Sheffield (not strictly true as there is Wakefield, counted as a city as it has a cathedral but ...)

Anyway, I and another RL GC woman are going and happy to meet up with people before. I've met some women you may have heard of and I must say it's great to get off the screen and into a cafe!

I think things are really taking off. We are organising, mobilising and really making headway. It feels like a new movement and this is just the start of the pushback against the insanity of #SelfID. Incidentally, that might not even be on the table in this consultation... also there's already evidence, can't post here, that a LARGE percentage of Tory voters don't buy into this nonsense, so if Teresa May was looking for votes she's looking in the wrong place!

Anyway, here, on twitter or the other place is where we can arrange to meet if you want to.

Interested in this, but need to figure out the logistics of travelling from Manchester and fitting in with childcare etc!

Interested too.

Hopefully could meet up with you OnTheHill and anyone else who wants?
I'm not on the other place, although aware, so would have to arrange through here if that's ok?

Yes Madja, that'll be great.
I'll be here on this thread. Already got my ticket! Should be really good. Lisa is brilliant isn't she?

Yes, I'm very excited to see her in the flesh so to speak!
I'll check back in with you nearer the time so we can arrange

Worth listening to Woman's Hour today on catch up:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b85m8r

"Prostitution websites, the NHS at 70 - funding cuts to women's services

As sex work moves online, are prostitution websites enabling a growth in exploitation and trafficking? Sarah Champion MP tells us why she believes UK legislation needs to be radically overhauled to keep pace with the changing face of prostitution.

The NHS at 70. The NHS has been in existence for 70 years this week, but how has it changed in that time? We look at the impact of funding cuts on women's health services. Jenni is joined by Professor Lesley Regan, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and by Dr Anne Connolly, a GP from Bradford and Chair of the Primary Care Woman's Health Forum.

Being fostered: Fiona and her foster mother Marie share their experiences of their foster care relationship. Fiona was abandoned at a supermarket as a baby, went into care and had years of problems, but with Marie's help she's turned her life around and has just finished university."

I've bought my ticket! There will probably be a few from West/North Yorkshire who have already met up. I'll have to come straight from work, though, so go straight there.

New Youtube channel:

OP LangCleg:

"This is an introductory video from Lisa, explaining her intention to go through various social policy systems concerned with the safeguarding of women and children and site the current demands of transactivism within them. Hopefully, there will be some context that may help us when completing the government consultation."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-ZOi8qu60

thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a3296496-Lisa-Muggeridge-new-video-channel?msgid=79157118#79157118