Who‘s coming to FiLIA?

And she is still banging on about how she trusts Hamas.

Filia will need to address this at some point, specifically why they platformed people who are vocally supportive of a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Im all for difference of opinion, but this goes way beyond that.

Too little and too late.

Apologies from Sathi

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With you Hermiaxx!

Well if Julia is joining me in the FILIA “trouble maker” club, I couldn’t be happier with the company.

@ShinyredbicycleI stand with the thousands of women who attended FiLiA in sisterhood and solidarity to support victims and discuss how to achieve a better world for women and girls. Shame on all detractors!

Though, yes, if the shoe fits.
Attending a feminist conference to provoke, be outraged and set up a counter protest outside, call it bad acting if you will.

I didn't. I named her separately. To me, from what I observed, she appeared delighted to find something to be outraged about do early on which I believe runs counter to sisterhood and solidarity.

You're very welcome to a different opinion. This was just what I saw

Agree, an awful slur on a fantastic feminist.

You should be ashamed of yourself @Shinyredbicycle

Calling Julia Long a “bad actor” is outrageous.

Give the tiny organising team at Filia a bit of time to make a robust statement. There was so much going on, not just what was in the building, but in the build up, what was happening on social media and other forums and the inevitable fallout.

Women who you'd hope would want to build not destroy like Julia Long, who was clearly delighted to find something to feel outraged about so early on and who took the cue to create some divisive action, and Jean Hatchet, whose modus operandus seems to be to provoke, then lie and paint herself as a victim on social media didn't help.

A few bad actors. Thousands of women there in sisterhood and solidarity. Choose who you want to lift up.

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I agree entirely, @Pri0n1, about those two awful women (the Norwegian woman and her friend) who attended the meeting just to call the rest of the room "colonisers". Utterly disgraceful, and entirely appropriate that they were marched out of the room by security. They can have whatever opinions they like, however much I may disagree with them, but that was entirely the wrong place to bring them to - insensitive and cruel.

It's simple, Jean & Aja don't support muslim rapists.

I’m angry. I spent close to a thousand pounds and some of my precious annual leave to spend time with other women and instead of an uplifting experience, I spoke to women who’d had to leave, who’d been spat on, and I witnessed shocking anti-Semitism in a space where all women should have felt supported.

I understand women have different opinions on this and that FiLiA had no control over what happened in the opening ceremony or of the awful Norwegian woman who chose to attend simply to bully those women again, but a robust statement condemning those actions would have (for me) sorted this all out.

In what way was it dealt with? The speaker left the stage immediately afterwards as she had finished and the woman compeering ignored it. They made no public statement condemning her actions, but gave a weak response, in which they failed to name the problem.

I’m glad they found a space for those women who wanted to meet. It would have been better to have two minutes silence in the main auditorium or some kind of statement in the closing session as that would have been a genuine public action supporting those women.

It’s good that there are women here who managed to enjoy it. Unfortunately I and many others were left with a bad taste in our mouths with how it was dealt with, or rather wasn’t.

What I’m confused about is why Aja and Jean Hatchet were thrown out and not JCJ and Lucy Masoud?

I’ve just been catching up on the awful antisemitism that FiLiA subjected Jewish attendees to at the event.

My heart goes out to all the Jewish women who had to leave, and to those watching on in horror who couldn’t attend.

So if you were there, @Pri0n1, you knew it wasn't a "small room", as you claimed? Why are you trying to paint everything in the worst possible light? What's your motive here?

And it wasn't an off-the-record meeting. It was being filmed, which was announced at the meeting near the beginning.

“you'd have heard a FiLiA comms woman - clearly there on her own account - say that the woman who chanted from stage at the opening rally had specifically been asked not to do that, and did it anyway, and that the rest of the FiLiA team were really angry and upset with her for (as she put it) "taking a shit" on all their work bringing women together.”

I did hear that, because I was at the meeting.

Saying it, off-record and only to the women who went to that meeting, but not confirming to the wider audience that they condemned the chanting was cowardly and it made me doubt her sincerity.

Which lunchtime meeting did you attend? If it was the one in support of Jewish women, a young Norwegian woman was thrown out.

No filming was suddenly announced on the last day, so presumably there’s no video of her abuse, but it occurred.

If you really had been there during the meeting on Sunday lunchtime (not morning) to bring together Jewish women and their allies, you'd have heard a FiLiA comms woman - clearly there on her own account - say that the woman who chanted from stage at the opening rally had specifically been asked not to do that, and did it anyway, and that the rest of the FiLiA team were really angry and upset with her for (as she put it) "taking a shit" on all their work bringing women together.

You say this meeting was in a "small room" as a "sop" - this is the third biggest room in the centre which takes up to 400 people. If you've ever worked in events (which for much of my life has been my day job) you will understand that finding and allocating a room of this size on the fly in the middle of a conference is quite a task. I'm very glad they did it though - the original call had been for us to do a 2-min silence in the auditorium - which i tuned up for, and then found we'd been moved - but this meant we could have a proper meeting with a lot of women speaking.

Be angry all you like, you won't be alone (as the comms person very clearly said), but it's important to be accurate about what happened.

Oh you’re back on the thread. Care to clarify in what way I’m a “trouble maker”?

I was at Filia from first thing Friday morning to Sunday afternoon. I agree with everything that Hermiaxx, I AM SARAH's and ItsAllGoingToBeFine say. Two and a half thousand women coming together, hundreds of speakers, stalls all organised and coordinated by volunteers. So much joy, so my laughter, so much solidarity. It was a remarkable event.

Some individuals' behaviour upset others. Some individuals' behaviour was completely out of order. Some individuals came to provoke, and others chose to react to this. I'm not convinced that the individuals posting video footage on social media sought or obtained the consent of those in the footage - it's an assumption on my part, but I believe that these individuals did this to stoke their own egos and airbrush out their own part in events.

All the demands that Filia make an immediate statement are egotistical and abusurd. These women were in the middle of organising a huge conference - why can't they be permitted a few days or weeks to think about what happened, process it and issue measured, thoughtful words rather than be pushed into a corner to try to appease women who think it's all about them?

Thank you, Filia. Thank to the women who came in good faith with sisterly intentions and who want to build rather than destroy.

In which case Filia really dont have any excuse.