Well. That was a treat.
Helen Steel, Linda Bellos, Anne Ruzylo and Heather Brunsell Evans gave informative and inspiring talks.
It was good to be in a safe space to share and take strength from each other.
Thank you to the organisers who did a fabulous job. No TRA disruption. The one dissenting voice was treated with respect and listened to. (It would have been good to be able to have talked more with her.) Her courage in speaking out in a room full of gender critical thinkers was acknowledged. A kindness which, as was amply demonstrated by the speakers, has not been afforded the other way round.
I particularly liked the ideas of working on what we, as women, are for, rather than against and the resurrection of some kind of new Women's Liberation Movement.
Thanks also to Mumsnet, for facilitating this much needed consciousness raising.
Catabogus - your baby is gorgeous.