Daily acts of feminism - a thread for ideas

I’ve posted this on the general feminism board already but -

In response to the judgment on the EVAW challenge of the CPS:

From CWJ website here - www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/news/2021/3/17/rape-justice-now-2-things-you-can-do-now

"We know our supporters are as disappointed as us with Monday’s judgment which failed to hold the CPS accountable for the devastating drop in rape prosecutions.

We urge women across England and Wales to continue this fight with us by:
1 Responding to the Home Office's current consultation on its national Violence against Women and Girls Strategy

2 Demanding the CPS waive their legal costs. The £75,000 CrowdJustice funds we raised came from the pockets of survivors, activists and those working with victims. EVAW and CWJ could use these funds to continue to help women get justice after rape.

Might be something some mumsnetters could get behind?

I think I've posted on the wrong thread!

Agnosticism is a philosophical position on knowledge - saying you're agnostic is declaring that you don't know.

Theism is having a faith. Atheism is not having a faith.

I've just learned there is a women only covid vaccine centre in Yorkshire, I hope it doesn't attract the TRAs.

yes support women owned businesses. I crochet and I make a point of finding local yarn shops in places I visit as they are invariably owned by women.

I try to get products made by women such as clothes, prints / paintings, toiletries, gifts, tattoos. I do some online arty courses run by women too.

Loving the links!
I'm planning to get some items from here once my notebooks start slowing down. Supporting women led business is a great idea...
wildwomynworkshop.com/tag-product/stationary/

I refer to unknown people as she. So when someone tells me they have a new boss, I say 'what's her name?'. When taking the train with dc, I wonder aloud if we will see her (the driver).
I also correct colleagues who talk about 'the girls in HR / accounts' and ask if they are under 18?
I also lend money to women with lend with care.

makespaceforgirls.co.uk/lobby-your-council/

Oh I make loans through Kiva, they don't exclusively lend to women but you choose who to lend to starting at $25.

I helped buy a cow in Pakistan and set up a shop in South America.

I'm also disappointed in ASN but as a pp said if someone needs an abortion they need an abortion.

Back to teaching computing, I make sure the class know who Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper are/were.

On the theme of default male - when crossing the road with children we wait for the the “green person” rather than “green man”.

When I started making the donation it wasn’t, but regardless we all know it’s only biological women who undergo abortions, and if a transman was raped, for example, in a country that prohibited abortion I wouldn’t and couldn’t stand in their way of obtaining a safe termination.

The asn do great work but their website seems to be all 'people' and no women. Which is disappointing.

I also make a monthly donation to a local DV refuge and charity, and to www.asn.org.uk/

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4006401-Ann-Sinnott-is-asking-for-clarity-on-guidance-for-the-Equality-Act?pg=1

This is relevant thread about Ann's work.

It's around £15 000 and I'm sure some of that money was gifted by MNetters.

If anyone is on Twitter, could you go to AnnMSinnotts page and retweet her message.

Crowdfunder are ignoring her emails and refusing to give her her money. It was raised to provide information on single-sex matters.

(!) Thanks.

Thank you Embarrassing! I have seen some of Selina Todd's speeches and been impressed but hadn't taken in that she has books out.

I'm not sure if this counts. I get Hedgehogs visiting me, I name them alternately with female and male names.

I'd certainly count it, especially if you have children who won't grow up seeing 'male' as the default setting for everything that hasn't been explicitly set aside as 'female'.

If anyone could recommend a good book on women's history/ suffragettes I would appreciate it. My know of history is embarrassing shocking and it's hard to know where to start.

If you haven't already, may I recommend talks (see YT) and books from modern historian Professor Selina Todd?

selinatodd.com/

This does involve money but is a loan. I donate with lendwithcare and lend only to women. The money is repaid and you can either loan it out again or withdraw it. Obviously there is the chance they won't be able to make the repayments but I think that is infrequent.

lendwithcare.org/

If anyone could recommend a good book on women's history/ suffragettes I would appreciate it. My know of history is embarrassing shocking and it's hard to know where to start.

Sorry if it's been mentioned, but I'll suggest the book "Feminism: Ideas In Profile" by Deborah Cameron. It's a topic a chapter (rights, culture, sex) and a good starter if, like me, you are fairly new to learning in this field.