We come together not because we may identify as women; rather, we come together because we believe that we can only be free and live better lives with the end of capitalism, white supremacy, Western empire, and patriarchy. - Feminist Library

The feminist library is building something and they can define their community how they like.

The Feminist Library was created and only has the archive material it has because it was formed from and came out of the Women's Liberation Movement.

Its importance is because of that and its "assets" are the collections that women willingly gave on the basis that they were creating a shared memory and history.

The group that is now pontificating about something totally other, are just the custodians of that shared contribution.

And as some may know, the reason they got hold of this was because of extreme bullying and public humiliation of some of the older women who had kept the collection together through some really grim economic times.

And apart from that disgusting and unsisterly behaviour, they then spat in the face of those who had provided their asset ie the personal papers of women activists, who had donated them on the basis that they would only be made available to other women. And no it didn't need to be defined what a woman is, because at the time of its creation and the activism it was set up to preserve everyone knew what a woman is, because the basis of women's liberation was to organise against the sex class opprese of women by the male sex class.

It just seems to be a trend now that women's groups who say they speak for women because they provide a women's service, very rarely make any statements relating to the purpose of the group, eg male violence.

But on the slightest excuse issue statements about for instance the Met Police, the Tories, etc..

It's not that I dont think women are entitled to have their own politics, but it is the high jacking of the platform that they have by being an employee or volunteer of a women's groups.

If any other voluntary or charity group about says animals or vegetarianism, issued statements like this there would be questions about the management of the group and their charitable status.

But worse, it implies that these women's politics are in fact not that important to them, because if they were they would as individuals irrespective of where they are employed, form a voluntary group or campaign to organise around that issue. For instance WPUK, Sex Matters and so on, were set up be women who didn't think lets just issue a statement from were I work, but in their on time formed groups to work together. Why cant these women?

Apart from apparently not being committed to the aims of the women's groups they work for, it is actually unethical.