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Daily acts of feminism - a thread for ideas

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teawamutu · 14/03/2021 10:14

Pinched the idea shamelessly from another thread after an hour of speechless rage reading the papers and Twatter. I need to DO something.

I pledge to do something positive every day to stand up for women. Deeds not words.

Today was taken care of for me - a subscription to The Radical Notion for Mother's Day. I'm also going to fill out the VAWG consultation.

Thought might be good to share anything else we come across here, so anyone in need of ideas could check?

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Akire · 09/04/2021 13:06

Glad I’ve found this thread again. Just did two loans with Lend with care. Have seen on TV while back and always meant to do it. Great to be able support women across the world.

OldCrone · 09/04/2021 12:28

@Terranean

Read some poetry from the women that where on the two threads that got deleted.Confused Any names would be gratefully appreciated as I did not get the chance!
This thread is still up.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4214481-feminist-poets

Terranean · 09/04/2021 12:17

Read some poetry from the women that where on the two threads that got deleted.Confused
Any names would be gratefully appreciated as I did not get the chance!

334bu · 09/04/2021 10:50

Does anyone know if this is a bill( Domestic Violence) that Scottish MPS get a vote on?

334bu · 08/04/2021 16:35

Bump

purpleboy · 07/04/2021 00:15

For anyone looking to do a bit of gardening, FiLiA have set up a crowdfunder. You can find the details on their website www.filia.org.uk

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teawamutu · 06/04/2021 18:29

Also - because I didn't do daily acts over Easter Blush - I spent a few minutes going through Leafstamp's links and asking for the pages to be amended in line with the EA2010. Am now all caught up.

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teawamutu · 06/04/2021 18:21

Dug for Raquel Rosario Sanchez today - she has an imminent deadline. And as usual, I declined to leave a tip.

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PotholeHellhole · 05/04/2021 10:58

I've helped with a small business loan to two women on LendWithCare today. Brilliant site.

Leafstamp · 04/04/2021 08:13

Bumping for Easter Sunday

Ieatmarmite · 01/04/2021 13:31

I like the idea of a daily act of feminism - 365 actions a year is a lot of activism. Im going to try hard to keep it up.

Ieatmarmite · 01/04/2021 13:29

Today I've subscribed to the Filia newsletter and Ive sent a letter to my MP asking him to write to Helen Whatley to ask her to make telemedical abortion care a permanent change to abortion regulations.

MaudTheInvincible · 01/04/2021 13:00

Thanks for the nudge about the covid test report form, Leafstamp. I'll give feedback on the next one I report.

Leafstamp · 01/04/2021 11:31

Great work all.

I have another suggestion, for anyone who is reporting their own or their secondary school age children's Covid test results.

The survey asks for gender (not sex).

At the bottom of the web page, if you click "is this page useful" then there is an option to be sent a questionnaire. You do need to provide your email address in the questionnaire. But I have completed it to suggest they change the question from Gender to Sex. Given that my child does not have a gender (children were not asked the gender question in the Census). And, crucially, given that Covid impacts the male sex differently to females then it would seem sex is the correct data to be collecting.

N.B if you're not in this cohort of submitting LFT test results, have a hunt round for other gov.uk pages using gender when they mean sex and hit the same "No" button for "Is this page useful".

www.gov.uk/report-covid19-result

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teawamutu · 01/04/2021 10:30

I filled in the cycling consultation today.

Tomorrow I plan to dig for Keira.

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Cuntysnark · 01/04/2021 09:25

Ooh Sophoclesthefox I have some crocheting to do-a timely reminder!

RabbitOfCaerbannog · 01/04/2021 01:01

My daughter is racing through Onjali Rauf's books. She's read three now. Grateful for the recommendation from pps.

Sophoclesthefox · 31/03/2021 22:35

And I signed up to support Sex Matters, and I wrote to baroness Nicholson.

Loving the tally of positive actions.

Sophoclesthefox · 31/03/2021 22:22

[quote Leafstamp]Here’s one for later today/this week:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4206745-Rugby-RFU-seeking-feedback-on-its-transgender-policy[/quote]
Did this today.

I also crocheted seditious matter for which I have a plan Grin

And I donated to the orchid project (FGM)

NoLactose · 31/03/2021 21:23

If anyone has any suggestions for phrases they’d like to see, let me know and I’ll put them on my list! In fact maybe I’ll set up a shop just for feminist content but I quite like having it mixed up amongst other stuff.

@SinkGirl how about:

Tired of Explaining Reality to Fuckwits

🤷‍♀️

ArcheryAnnie · 31/03/2021 20:36

My task for today: filling in a feedback form for my hospital visit, where I praise the hospital lavishly, but complain about the feedback form itself, because it asks me about gender ("identify as male, identify as female, trans, non-binary, other, prefer not to say") which is immaterial to my medical care, but does not ask me about sex, which absolutely is.

Leafstamp · 31/03/2021 18:29

The draft policy, information and the link to the consultation survey is on this page:

www.englandrugby.com/about-rfu/rfu-policies/transgender-policy

334bu · 31/03/2021 17:44

Filled in Rugby consultation.

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