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Hundreds at Hyde Park for Let Women Speak!

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BoreOfWhabylon · 02/04/2023 14:56

TRAs seem to be keeping away since organisers gained assurances from police that the women would, at last, be protected.
Lots of gay men also attending in support
Livestream by Venice Allen
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yun3tGCljME

Let women speak

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yun3tGCljME

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RhannionKPSS · 02/04/2023 23:55

I think you will find that Let Women Speak isn’t done for entertainment, it’s to give a voice to women & girls & inform people, it’s unfortunate you can’t see that

I was hoping the TRAs would provide the entertainment. Otherwise the Women Speaking were kinda repetitive and preaching to the choir. You hear 3 you've heard them all.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 03/04/2023 00:01

I've long thought that we'll know we're back to what passes as normal when women are left alone to have their meetings because those meetings are 'boring'.

We're not there yet.

RhannionKPSS · 02/04/2023 23:55

I think you will find that Let Women Speak isn’t done for entertainment, it’s to give a voice to women & girls & inform people, it’s unfortunate you can’t see that

Crutcher · 02/04/2023 22:54

It was a bot boring TBH. Without the TRAs to provide entertainment it there was little worth watching.

SwordToFlamethrower · 02/04/2023 22:43

I was there and had the privilege of being able to speak, it was truly wonderful to finally share my story

NZKateS · 02/04/2023 22:38

Hi - the event today looked marvellous.

I just wanted to say that I’m in NZ and obviously it has been a difficult week or so in many ways - though in some it feels like a scab has been ripped off and the festering sore is at least exposed now and for that I am so very grateful to Posie.

But I also wanted to say thank you to Julia Long and (everyone!) for remembering the women of Australia and New Zealand today and for the reading the speeches, that should have been read out at Albert Park, Auckland, in front of the NZ Embassy in London. It means more than I could express and was profoundly touching.

We have followed the battles and supported women in the UK from afar for a long time and it was moving to realise you will not forget about us either. It reminded me of the great kinship between women, of all that binds us and it made me hopeful for all of us. So thank you.

FemaleAndLearning · 02/04/2023 21:58

I was listening from home. It was so fab to see such a supportive crowd. When the transterrorists are there it is such a sensory overload and disorientating. Just nice to listen to the women without the awful noise.
Well done everyone. Women Will Speak.

ScrollingLeaves · 02/04/2023 21:16

I’ve just realised from listening to one woman speaker that Lesbians who used to have special meeting groups, discos etc now cannot have them because they have to be open to ‘legal’ lesbians.

I presume gay clubs now have to be open to ‘legal’ gay men.

Another reason to write to your MP, especially those who pride themselves on being all about supporting the LGBT ‘community’ about updating the Equality Act.

Maybe, even if they stuff their ears with their fingers about ordinary women’s spaces for fear of not protecting the marginalised minority, they will listen to protect the L&G and push for the debate about updating the Act to make clear that the characteristic sex in the Act is biological, not sex modified by a GRC.
https://sex-matters.org/take-action/write-to-your-mp-about-the-petition/

If you have not yet signed the petition to Update the Equality Act, there is still time before it closes on April 20.
https://sex-matters.org/take-action/write-to-your-mp-about-the-petition/

Write to your MP about the petition - Sex Matters

The petition to make the Equality Act Clear has reached 100,000 signatures! Now it is time to write to your MP about it.

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DerekFaker · 02/04/2023 21:08

Ahh this is great to see.

PriOn1 · 02/04/2023 21:02

plumbago · 02/04/2023 16:44

There certainly has been a sea change. I've just been talking on the phone to my aged father, who's 96 and lives in a care home - and out of the blue he said, 'Did you see that terrible fracas in New Zealand with Posie Parker, and those dreadful woke police officers?' He's got all his marbles and reads the Daily Telegraph online every day, but never before has he shown any interest in this subject. Now recent events have well and truly peaked him!

There must be! My 80 year old mum suddenly went all terven on the phone this week too. I always tended to avoid the topic with her, but she had a good old rant about the situation. I’d had quite a bad week, but when I heard it, I was cheering inside.

CryptoFascistMadameCholet · 02/04/2023 20:54

EndlessTea · 02/04/2023 20:41

She’s a legend. more balls than Millwall

I’m still sad I didn’t get the Venice Allan & SFW goodie bag I paid for in September 2018 (part of the ticket for the MCR event).

It wasn’t their fault, I was in kids A&E with my daughter at what turned out to be the beginning of her paediatric cancer journey but (thankfully) she’s in remission now and I still think about that goodie bag from time to time!

EndlessTea · 02/04/2023 20:41

She’s a legend. more balls than Millwall

AlisonDonut · 02/04/2023 20:40

Let us not forget that Venice Allen is the person who originally got women together years ago to start talking about all this, and who made the suggestion to KJK to get out to Speaker's Corner in the first place.

Boiledbeetle · 02/04/2023 20:34

if anyone is thinking of attending but doesn't know what to say...can I suggest a poem from a book of 80 poems written by a lot of people you know.
https://amzn.eu/d/fWDaz3m

Hundreds at Hyde Park for Let Women Speak!
raspberrywine · 02/04/2023 20:09

The Birmingham event is on 14 MAY, not April.

fromorbit · 02/04/2023 19:48

Every Sunday Speaker's Corner from now on. KJK is at the next one for Easter.

Amazing success today.

Apparently though there were loads of TRAs at a protest at Elephant and Castle. Maybe they have only enough support to do one mob in London at a time;
https://twitter.com/QcWynter/status/1642501261277659138

April 14th LWS are going to Birmingham as well as doing the London one.

https://twitter.com/QcWynter/status/1642501261277659138

slowquickstep · 02/04/2023 19:09

It's a good day 💖

KatMcBundleFace · 02/04/2023 19:00

Thank goodness. Last weekend was very upsetting. I was very worried this weekend would escalate.
That murderer/torturer TRA has been at the centre of many of the recent protests. I wonder if they've been told they risk breaching their parole.

The interpretive dance TRA was odd, but it's fine, they have the right to express themselves through the medium of dance.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 02/04/2023 18:52

Photo from earlier

Here are the words if you want to sing along.

Hundreds at Hyde Park for Let Women Speak!
Hundreds at Hyde Park for Let Women Speak!
Hundreds at Hyde Park for Let Women Speak!
Hundreds at Hyde Park for Let Women Speak!
Lottapianos · 02/04/2023 18:50

Brave, brilliant, wonderful women ❤️

dcbc1234 · 02/04/2023 18:36

plumbago · 02/04/2023 16:44

There certainly has been a sea change. I've just been talking on the phone to my aged father, who's 96 and lives in a care home - and out of the blue he said, 'Did you see that terrible fracas in New Zealand with Posie Parker, and those dreadful woke police officers?' He's got all his marbles and reads the Daily Telegraph online every day, but never before has he shown any interest in this subject. Now recent events have well and truly peaked him!

I also read the Telegraph online and it constantly delights me with its 'gender critical' articles. Your father can't fail to miss it. The comments are fantastic too.

TidyDancer · 02/04/2023 18:25

I'm really hoping to go to the one at the end of April. I'm so pleased it went well.

BitterAndOnlySlightlyTwisted · 02/04/2023 17:50

I suspect the reason why there was a decent police presence was also because Claire Fox was there.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 02/04/2023 17:47

On my way back now. I went along after seeing what happened last week. There was a big police presence at the ready but luckily not needed. Perhaps this is what we have to do now. Just keep turning up in bigger and bigger numbers.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 02/04/2023 17:37

Brilliant