Daily acts of feminism - a thread for ideas

Call out people who repeatedly use the word ‘c*s’ even though they have been asked not to. People that seem to think that it is imperative that everyone else can dictate how others refer to them except biological women.

I have been writing to every organisation I come across re use of gender instead of sex. Also, check out the policies of your local Hospital Trust to see how they deal with the clash of requirements wrt single sex wards. Sometimes the fact that they state that they prioritise trans people over the rights and needs of women is quite well hidden.

Conservatives for Women (open to all political persuasions) are a good group and write to the members of the House of Lords as well as MPs regarding concerns over self id by the back door (which is currently still a real possibility).

Michele Moore and Heather Brunskell Evan's book inventing transgender children is only 10 quid on kindle.

Invisible women is only £1.99 too!

I make micro loans to women's organisations in developing countries through kiva.org I generally make one loan a month, but can make more on months when I get repayments.

I sponsor a girl in India through Plan international. I get vague updates about her welfare (no photos or anything personal) and she's now at secondary school and doing well. She wants to be a nurse. Without sponsorship it's quite possible that she would have had to leave school by now to help support herself.

Not My Nigel!

Find ways to cut through the inertia. People wont speak up until they realise it s going to cost them more to stay silent than to speak out.

its only on social media
it doesnt affect me
its not my problem
theres nothing I can do about it
it costs nothing to be kind
its nice to be nice
Its not all men and even if its most of them its not my nigel.

Challenge not curler

I cross out gender and write sex on every form that comes my way.
I curler from sexist stereotypes and sexist nonsense that my children repeat from what they've heard on SM or at school.
I challenged my tutor on the use of gender when sex was the appropriate term.

I particularly have appreciated it when Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said on more than one occasion that MTF trans people face oppression but that is different to the oppression female people face.

And when she recently said that JK Rowling's thoughtful and moving essay on her feelings and experiences as a woman was a "perfectly reasonable piece"

And the baroness replies so quickly, she's amazing!

Stop using phrases and language that imply men are superior - eg man up, grow a pair, ball ache, etc

Only buy cards/gifts that aren't stereotypical (it's surprisingly hard to find non gendered birth congratulations cards)

Don't change your surname when you get married (obvs a situational action)

Draw vulvas randomly (I'm intending to take a spray can out next week. So fucking fed up of dicks everywhere)

Nope

figures.

Always worth writing to Baroness Emma Nicholson - she's tireless.

Great idea! I will be joining and and following suggestions.

Keep being a thorn in the side of people who promote anything harmful or dismissive of biological women. Every time such an issue is raised on here, as many of us as possible should write to the relevant person and keep pushing, pushing, pushing.

I am incredibly grateful to our modern day suffragettes and have been intending to write and thank them for months, but I will find the time this week.

For parents of young boys, I really love the stuff at Sonshine Magazine.

That's worth a subscribe too.

sonshinemagazine.com/

Excellent advice.

Decent education around human biology seems to be extremely important.

Schools - if your child's school signs up to Stonewall, ask what due diligence the school have undertaken in terms of girls rights / safety and child safeguarding?
Why are they funding a political organisation that campaigns to remove women and girl's rights to single sex sport, single sex showers, changing rooms and sleeping accommodation?
Have they asked Stonewall why they openly appointed someone with an appalling track record re safeguarding children? (suggest they google Aimee Challenor Verita report).
If they allow this political lobby group access to children, what other political groups are they giving access in defiance of longstanding government guidelines about impartiality and neutrality in schools?

Ask those difficult questions and make schools think about what they're doing to our girls.

Jane Clare Jones runs a series of courses via the Institute of Feminist Thought: feminist-institute.org/courses/

Encourage charities (esp any you donate to) to use clear information re: cervical cancer, pregnancy, breastfeeding, etc instead of obfuscation.

Oh, yeah, that seems a good one! I hope they also increase education towards people on which organs they have, as I've heard most cis women don't know they have, or can't locate, a cervix. I can't imagine anyone thinking it feminist that women are expected to agree with a cervical smear when they don't even know they have them, or where it is.

Clear, concise language and additional educational campaigns would be stellar!

Challenging sex gender stereotypes daily, especially with children.

Evarish, are you U.K.?