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Standing for Women are coming to Manchester!

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Thisisouting · 14/09/2018 10:34

Morning!

The Brilliant Standing for Women are bringing We Need To Talk to Manchester on the 28th September
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Speakers are
Posie Parker
Hannah Clark (ManFriday)
Jean Hatchet
Anne Ruzylo
Julia Long

It's the same night as the WPUK event in Leeds so if you can't get over there come join the Manchester Meeting!

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PeriwinkleBlues · 16/09/2018 10:22

@BingBongSong @GinNeeded

I've registered for the Liverpool event. Going on my own and a bit worried it might get heated as I know how Liverpool like a good demonstration! Was considering Leeds but Manchester might be better option...

BingBongSong · 16/09/2018 09:47

GinNeeded I think WPUK will release more tickets nearer to the date, so hope you get one! I'm very minded to go to the talk on Friday too, although need to check childcare arrangements first.

GinNeeded · 16/09/2018 09:22

@BingBongSong I didnt know there was one so I have just added my self to the wait list.

I have only just started to explore the feminism threads in the last couple of months and it's exploded a passion for justice in me I had forgotten that I possessed!

I really want to meet with like minded people and learn more.

I can see people irl switching off their brains and eyes glazing over when I raise the need to be gender critical and how it reduces the fight for equality and the right to be who you are to a series of stereotypes which puts you into a box.

BingBongSong · 15/09/2018 17:43

GinNeeded are you going to the WPUK event in Liverpool earlier in ther week? I'm going to that one and wondering how many people will be attending.

AllTheShapes · 15/09/2018 17:34

I'm hoping that the releasing venue info late will reduce the number of people objecting...

PerverseConverse · 15/09/2018 17:16

I'll be travelling in by train. Maybe those of us going alone could meet up before and thereby go together so there's safety in numbers.

silentcrow · 15/09/2018 17:06

A friend said to me the other day that they feel this is the modern equivalent of the suffragette movement.
I read Vox recently and the main character has a friend, Jackie, who is a campaigner - always going to rallies, shouting about women's rights, putting up posters etc, before the US collapses and women are silenced. And the thing that haunts her constantly through the book is that she wishes she'd been more like Jackie. She knows she should have spoken out. Whatever I thought of the rest of the book, that's the bit that haunts me too. I may still be afraid to risk my job, but there's a lot I can do in the background.

AllTheShapes hard to say. For myself I'm not worried - I probably blocked more punches in the dojo this morning than that lot have thrown in their lives - but I am a bit concerned about the media angle.

GinNeeded · 15/09/2018 17:05

I'd like to come, I'd be on my own though. Is it in central Manchester? I would be driving from Liverpool if anyone wants a lift.

AllTheShapes · 15/09/2018 16:55

I've bought a ticket. Do you think there'll be trouble outside? I remember seeing reports of protests outside similar events.

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PerverseConverse · 15/09/2018 15:04

A friend said to me the other day that they feel this is the modern equivalent of the suffragette movement. I feel like we've gone backwards after all those women fought for our rights.

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PerverseConverse · 15/09/2018 14:44

I'll be going alone too.

PerverseConverse · 15/09/2018 14:42

I want a badge!

Ereshkigal · 15/09/2018 13:28

Brilliant thank you Smile

BettyDuMonde · 15/09/2018 13:27

It says on the eventbfite listing that it will be live streamed :)

Ereshkigal · 15/09/2018 12:33

I'm really hoping it will be filmed. It's a bit too far for me Sad

JustfiedandAncient · 15/09/2018 09:32

Sorted Grin

Kittysacunt · 14/09/2018 18:38

Fab!

JustfiedandAncient · 14/09/2018 18:34

*prays she can sort childcare Smile

silentcrow · 14/09/2018 18:32

get a badge

"I don't have opinions I have science"??? SOLD! Grin

JustfiedandAncient · 14/09/2018 18:26

@Kittysacunt ill be going alone too Smile

YesItsADebate · 14/09/2018 17:59

Oh don’t worry, it’s the first time I’ve been to one of these too. If you want a Mumsnet secret signal, get a badge Grin Here they are: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/InconvenientWomen?ref=l2-shopheader-name

silentcrow · 14/09/2018 17:49

Kitty nah, I'm going by myself too, and to FiLiA next month. Not weird at all.

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