Processions walk today

Thanks Shots- they could have been clearer and said all welcome.

@ChattyLion confused there wasn’t anything on the art project website about not allowing male children. How could there be any exclusion of male children or any male who wanted to come along, if males (who feel they are female) are explicitly made welcome to march with women?

From their website (www.processions.co.uk/faq/):
Can men be part of PROCESSIONS?
PROCESSIONS is an invitation to women and girls nationwide to celebrate their right to vote and voice their concerns and hopes for the future. Whilst the artwork is a live portrait of women and girls, men are welcome to support the event by joining the audience to watch on the day.

Can children attend PROCESSIONS?
Accompanied children
Accompanied children, including boys up to the age of 13 are welcome to take part in PROCESSIONS. All minors under the age of 16 should be accompanied by their mothers, or another responsible adult woman adult such as a teacher or legal guardian.

Schools
Girls, those who identify as girls and non-binary students are invited to take part in the PROCESSIONS. Boys and those who identify as boys over the age of 13 are invited to support from the sidelines as members of the audience.

So there you have it.

Wish now I had thought to go with a ' Sex not Gender' banner.
Note to self: seize opportunities to be more visible.

Nope, just checked the processions site and it clearly states its a public artwork invovling women & girls with the asterisk for self-ID women explanation.

Perhaps it was overzealous organisation by our local co-ordinator then. Was definitely presented as a “women & girls only” event.

Boycotted for the same reason.

Yup i was also a bit surprised to see a man spearhead this project.
Not questioning his competency or empathy but just as a symbolic thing (within what is literally, a purely symbolic project) you would have hoped that they could have found a woman to be in charge of this.

Also cheered off and should have looked at the website earlier. Project headed by a bloke and research, IMO, is risible.

I'm very strongly of the view that suffragists contributed at least as much as suffragettes and the 'green, white and violet' thing is nonsense*. WSPU colours were purple, white and green; their motto 'Deeds, Not Words' and the general slogan ' Votes for Women' - NOT 'Give Women Votes'.

• IIRC, this started circulating on the web about ten years ago and there's no evidence for it at all.

there wasn’t anything on the art project website about not allowing male children. How could there be any exclusion of male children or any male who wanted to come along, if males (who feel they are female) are explicitly made welcome to march with women?

According to the Processions web-site it was organised by Artichoke which is a "National Portfolio Organisation"(?), a registered charity which receives regular funding from the Arts Council. It also seems to be supported by the National Lottery, Department for Digital, Media and Sport, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Nat West. Perhaps Nat West, as the body most affected by ordinary consumers, should be asked about this "non man" response etc

Love love love the Leeds Spinners banner

That should be our motto.

#Wrong Side of History my Arse
#Protect Women's Rights

The Leeds Spinners banner is marvellous!

Leeds Spinners

mums net, which labels Trans Gender women as perverts child abusers and a cult movement, I think the words I use are quite apt
giddy
Please refer to the exact posts that do this.

I am not a cis woman. Just woman is fine thanks.

whiteonred
Didnt go for same reasons.

A local Muslim and Christian women's group was making a banner (I'm not sure who took it), but they always have their sewing sessions at a time convenient for elderly women but nobody else (daytime but after school so even if you are at home with a babe you'd have to take a school aged child) so I've got a bit fed up with that arm of the group.
But I thought it was a bit sad that some of the group might not have been able to go on the march given who it was advertised for.

They didn't allow male children?

A group of my friends marched and I had an open onvite to join them, but my ambivalence about the inclusion of self-identifying women & lack of childcare for my youngest (male) child killed any enthusiasm I had for the event. Interesting that women with male children and no childcare were excluded. Almost as if no-one had thought to impact assess the inclusion criteria.

I boycotted for the same reason and told them why on their Facebook page. I asked them to define woman, got their ridiculous, non-man response then told them why I would not be attending. Didn’t get a response

PencilsInSpace that’s brilliant. They should have that made into good quality posters. I would definitely buy one and frame it.

Ha that banner is fab

There were some gender critical banners in Edinburgh.

I think it is a huge failure to ask women to give their time to do this but not to permit any speeches (!!) , when women as a category are being told to ‘enjoy ur erasure’, political parties are fucking over women who object, and kids are being fed harmful nonsense (literally).

Yes, I had similar feelings. The banners were fantastic but how many woman hours went into creating them, while our rights are being dismantled around us?

I loved the Leeds Spinners' banner though

A march to celebrate 100 years of women having the vote should be for women. Not for anyone who feels unhappy with the constraints of masculinity

@whiteonred I posted to that effect on their Facebook item about it and got no response either. I couldn't go for family reasons but wouldn't have gone anyway for the same reason as you