I want to meet other GC women in person

Glad there are lots around the U.K. - though you’d think there’d be something in London (well apart from the prisons!)!

Total derail: every time I see this thread title, I read it as 'I want to meet other GC women in prison'. Like, every bloody time!🙄

I also always read Surgery as Sorcery.
Can do better/must try harder at applying myself to my reading skills😊

I would love to meet other GC women anywhere - not prison, hopefully - but I live in a faraway place on the Celtic fringes so - unlikely.

Have fun when you manage to meet each other

Just saw this, and might not be a potential meet up scenario, and also the issue may be difficult for some women to attend.

But in case anyone is interested (I doubt its women only but may be a chance for women to find each other at an event about a women's issue.) Various cities.

https://rapecrisis.org.uk/news/join-rape-crisis-at-screenings-of-the-powerful-new-documentary-film-an-army-of-women/

Not sure if this is a change or I read it wrong, but LWS is in Bristol on 13 April
https://www.letwomenspeak.org/events

Or maybe they list London as the default whilst working on getting to other locations.

Here's another one that came up on my facebook feed.

Join us from 9am - 5pm in Derby on Saturday 10th May 2025 at an event to celebrate grassroots organisation and women’s movements arising from the uniquely female experience.

Full details https://www.womensrights.network/derbyshire-womens-festival

Hope the OP doesn't mind me hopping on to say I'd love to meet mumsnetters at a London LWS (spoiler alert: I'm not a woman, though I am married to one). You know you're getting close to the Reformers' tree when you start seeing purple and green.

Cyclists who gather online quite often end up meeting IRL. Once upon a time I did the end-to-end (Land's End to John O'Groats) and even talked a bunch of strangers into letting me stay with them as I made my way up north. I have a feeling if I did that now not all of them would be so welcoming if they knew I was witch-adjacent.

For anyone near Manchester or able to get there
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5309813-equality-freedom-of-speech-and-the-law-akua-reindorf-kc-talks-to-jo-bartosch-31-may-2025-manchester

Having said that about local LWS events, apart from the Nottingham one, they all seem to be in London this year. But appreciate the work involved in putting events on.

https://www.letwomenspeak.org/events

Going back to OP ie being able to meet up with so as to hang out locally rather than the odd system of WRN - and heaven help you if you have a VM email address.

I had had an idea but unfortunately with the restriction on DM isn't that useful at the moment but might be in the future.

Let's say there is some vaguely woman related event in a nearby large town or city eg this one Chester(*). And then post a message saying something like anyone else nearby thinking of going. Perhaps we could meet up. This is where not having DM is a problem, ie cant privately agree a meeting point and whether to be wearing suffragette ribbons or whatever.

Or even a local council meeting about public transport, the NHS?!

Although obiously if there is a LWS event nearby.

Does anyone know how long the DM system will be closed?

(*) https://www.storyhouse.com/seasons/storyhouse-women/ this is trans inclusive as many IWD events were

Not sure why the image shows 2-3 March it is actually Saturday 10 – Sunday 11 May 2025

I have sent an email with a picture of me canpaigning for Fair Play for Women. Hopefully that will be enough.

I think if you haven't heard back from WRN, you should contact them and query this. Groups are volunteer run and there are times when co-ordinators have so much on that the admin may get a bit delayed.

I haven't heard back from WRN yet so that doesn't seem a way to get involved locally.

I’ve been surprised at the number of people in my circle who share the same thinking, when I’ve gently questioned and shared a little of my own view.

If you switch to your UTDOD username then you can PM me from your book username and then I can confirm you are a fellow FWR poster and not a TRA poster!

I'm very trustworthy, apart from where Tunnocks are involved, and then I've swiped them and I'm out the door before you've even blinked!

What area are you in? There will be some options for you?

I too would like to meet fellow GC women. I live in a w.midland's city but can find no groups at all. I have met one woman who said 'mumsnet is great', but I do not know that she is GC (and I suspect probably not from other clues) and we enjoyed a chat about women's sci fi writing, but that's all. I belong to a writing circle but would not dare raise the issue there, many are young and I suspect very woke! Pro-actively, I have just ordered two Suffragette badges (been thinking of doing so for a while but could not justify expense) in hopes someone may speak to me, if I wear them (and maybe I can give the TiM who comes to my church a nudge that not everyone here believes in 'be kind' - six foot, 40s, wears pigtails and an Alice band with an utterly male voice and presence, wtaf? Fetish in a place of worship?).
A dinosaur sweatshirt or T-shirt would be useful, too! As worn by Victoria Smith on Radio 4 recently - the item that Emily Callaci did not realise the significance of (sorry for dangling participle)🤔.

@elbowhammer Are you a signed up for local LWS?
There are remote zoom meetings for women who can’t make meetings for various reasons

For subtle indicators the museum of London shop has some suffragette badges

https://shop.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/suffragette

Thanks. I can't post much as I am a civil servant so my Facebook won't show a lot beyond likes of some other posts

With WRN vetting, co-ordinators will look at past social media, who people follow etc. They'll ask people about why they want to join, what they know about the network already. I'm not sure that it's necessarily about having to have done lots of stuff in the past. More about where women are at in the present, what women believe in and feel strongly about, and how - time permitting - they would like to make a difference.

I have applied to join WRN. Will wait and see if I pass muster. I do have some good GC credentials especially with Fair Play for Women's campaigns pre Covid but guess I can't prove that.

@FortunaMajor I had completely forgotten that WhatsApp group but I am still on it (group created 2019 so my guess was not too bad). I've put a message in there 😀

Hello fellow station meeter!

If you're interested in getting out and about again and you're still in the MN Radicals WhatsApp group, then send a message on there and I'll pass on details of what's on in Manchester. If not, DM when they reopen and I can let you know what's on.