We need to talk about the GRA - Glasgow

No FB for me but if everyone else wants to do it that way perhaps a kind soul could PM me the details...

Seeingadistance
Good plan

I have
Im in

I'm in for a meeting, I have a Facebook account.

Does everyone have a FB account?

I do.

Does everyone have a FB account?

You can also leave a review on the Central Hotel FB page to thank them.

While I remember - I'm going to write to the Grand Central Hotel to thank them for providing us with the meeting room at such short notice, and for the calm way they dealt with the protestors and the general helpfulness and good humour of their staff. I was going to email them, but it's a standard contact on their website which looks for phone number and so on.

I noticed that there was a male member of staff standing at the top of the stairs while we were there, presumably to keep us safe.

Yes Seeing I was saying the same thing to camomile - I suppose it depends how many folk we can get together, if there's lots of us a pub or cafe may not be ideal...

The other thing we might want to think about is whether we meet in a cafe or pub - where there will be others about making it harder for us all to sit together, and we might feel we're looking over our shoulders all the time, and people might overhear us - phew... I used to meet up with a woman who fled Eritrea for this same fucking reason!

Anyway - maybe we could look at getting a small private room somewhere. Some libraries in Glasgow used to hire out meeting rooms at low cost. Don't know if they still do that.

*Ereshkegal
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Under his eye indeed

Seeing That sounds like a plan!

camomile has I think already PMd some of us including myself re: meeting up within the next couple of weeks but Plectrums list is already compiled and will have loads more folk on it I would have thought?

I can see how it's a pain to organise, irl trying to get 3-4 of my pals to agree on a date for something seems to take weeks - we're trying to organise something bigger with folk who don't all know each other and have to make sure they are not infiltrated by malevolent forces into the bargain...

It's a good plan. I can't join you in Scotland sadly but I know other women's groups have organised offline meetings in a similar way. This is how gender critical women have to conduct themselves at the moment. It's like the fucking Handmaid's Tale. Under His eye.

Plectrum has a list of people she sent messages to before last night's meeting. She did an advanced search and filtered out a small number who had little or no posting history. My thoughts are that if we use that existing list, and add others to it - those who were there last night and others who can be checked out by advance search - we could arrange an initial meeting - soon - by individual messages. Then, when we meet up we can work out how we continue to communicate in an easier way than sending lots of individual messages back and forth on here.

Does that sound like a plan?

I think there were quite a few mners there.

Kate, Ruth, Stuart and Heather were a good mix of speakers and made some good nuanced points esp about the governments role in society and the impact of teen girls.

We do need irl meet ups.

I don’t know how without getting harassed though.

Complete the consultation. Take your time and do it well. Challenge the language and answer in your own terms, not TRA terms. Look at FairPlayForWomen for resources. If you are struggling with a question, come back and ask here.

Try to get as many friends and family to complete as poss too. This is important

This is the process and it has to be done

But what does logistics mean? We haven't very long till the consultation ends. Then, how long have we got to actually make something happen? How big is the window of time? I'm now trying to be brave and speak to friends I was too scared to as direct action. My first was completely taken aback didn't know what I was talking about. It's a big climb! I will try and make another 3 listen next.

Me too

I’ve NC for other threads I’m on right now but I’m legit - plectrum knows who I am.

Yes, it's the logistics as terry says.

I'm in too. Definitely want to meet again.

Don't be down hearted camomile, we will organise it's just the logistics...

I feel so impotent with all this. If we can't organise a meeting on here, or through private messages then any chance of organised dissent is gone and so are our rights. This is not going to happen by osmosis, this is going to happen by women's bravery. We wouldn't be voting without it. We wouldn't have attended the meeting. I really feel that there is no hope when I see the lack of belly for women getting together. We need some balls!!!