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lanadelgrey · 2025-08-23T09:33:27+00:00

I‘m starting to get excited. Are there plans for a MN meetup?

FiliaDebutante · 09/10/2025 20:55

I can’t believe the bunting! Amazing!

RobinEllacotStrike · 09/10/2025 20:37

It’s been weird walking around. I’m wearing obvious suffragette things - signalling clearly but not OTT. I’m getting lots of looks. Women connecting looks, oh hi! , but also lots of obvious Turing away or blatantly “not seeing” me 😂 It’s not something I’ve really encountered before & maybe I’m being paranoid, but maybe not. Will be interesting to hear from others tomorrow.

RobinEllacotStrike · 09/10/2025 20:32

ParmaVioletTea · 09/10/2025 19:32

Oh wow!!!

I'll be getting there mid to late afternoon. I'm aiming for the show at 7pm "Queenagers"

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I’ve got my card marked for that one too.

Do we have a signal?

HaveYouActuallyDoneAnyWashingThisWeekMum · 09/10/2025 20:22

RobinEllacotStrike · 09/10/2025 18:56

Brighton station have bunting out for us

Oh now this is a true joy to behold! Looking forward to seeing this at the station tomorrow!

Will the population of Brighton go into a collective fit of pique at the sight of so much hatred and bigotry 🤭?!

ParmaVioletTea · 09/10/2025 19:32

RobinEllacotStrike · 09/10/2025 18:56

Brighton station have bunting out for us

Oh wow!!!

I'll be getting there mid to late afternoon. I'm aiming for the show at 7pm "Queenagers"

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/10/2025 19:12

Beautiful bunting! Hope everyone going has a great time and the sun shines for you.

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lanadelgrey · 09/10/2025 19:11

Have posted in the app.
It was a joy to see my town full of feminists today, and more to come tomorrow.
Walked down to do some prep in the sunshine and arrived as the banner was being readied to be hung on the front.
There are cafes and bars in the venue, it is a brutalist behemoth and v easy to get lost in. But it will be fun!!

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Talkinpeace · 09/10/2025 19:11

WOW
just WOW
The council and businesses of Brighton might be clicking
what side their bread is buttered on !!!

RobinEllacotStrike · 09/10/2025 18:56

Brighton station have bunting out for us

Talkinpeace · 09/10/2025 10:49

The full Filia Agenda is public
https://www.filia.org.uk/filia2025-agenda

FiLiA2025 Conference Agenda — FiLiA

https://www.filia.org.uk/filia2025-agenda

Hermiaxx · 09/10/2025 10:12

Just to confirm in the discussion part of the FiLiA app is the following chat titled:

’Mumsnet FWR lurkers & posters meet-up’

I have also posted and hopefully someone else will too so I’m not the first and last!

I don’t know the venue (or Brighton) for that matter but I assume it’ll be easy to coordinate when we’re there 🤞

Thingybob · 08/10/2025 23:39

donkey86 · 08/10/2025 20:23

Could anyone tell me how to see the timings for Friday? I’m thinking of buying a last minute ticket but that’s the only day I can do and I can’t stay late. I’d like to know how much of it I’d be able to attend before committing to the ticket price. Would I be able to see details if I get the app (if so, what’s it called?) or is it only available after ticket purchase? I understand they need to keep it safe from protestors but £55 is a lot to spend blind.

I think you need to buy a ticket to get access to the app.

The main sessions run from 09:00 to 17:30 on Friday then there are a few events going on in the evening (poetry, music, a film)

Tootingbec · 08/10/2025 23:05

CornflakeGirlsClub · 03/10/2025 13:36

I was about to start a thread and then found you all. Yay! 🎉

I’ve got a Sat & Sun ticket. My first time (bought a ticket last year but then got the flu…boo).

Going down from London on the Friday night and staying in a friends flat while they’re away, but coming to the conference alone. Haven’t got party tickets as even though I’m fairly brave, I don’t want to be a billy no mates wall flower (and I stopped drinking a few years ago, so no Dutch courage for me!)

I’m excited! My DH and kids keep talking about mum being hyped for her ‘weekend feminist party’ 😀

I went to a women’s liberation in education conference in 2023/4 (can’t recall) and it was bloody brilliant to be among so many interesting, clever women from all walks of life. I went alone and was ‘adopted’ for the day by a lesbian couple in their seventies who thought I looked lonely and fed me biscuits while we raged at each other about gender ideology in schools and tutted at the (small( group of (really quite silly) young men outside chanting ‘I would rather be a Nazi than a terf’.

I’m a tall lass with a good death stare. I’ll happily walk to the venue with anyone feeling nervous. 🌷

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I went to that women’s lib in education conference too - at Uni of London? I flipping loved it! So nice to be in a space where I could feel uninhibited in what I was saying.

Just loved being surrounded by so many diverse women and feeling like I had found my tribe as well.

My DH has also told the DC that “mum is off to some TERF conference” 😬

Will be there on my tod on Sunday as well so will check out the Mumsnet meet up app also

donkey86 · 08/10/2025 20:23

Could anyone tell me how to see the timings for Friday? I’m thinking of buying a last minute ticket but that’s the only day I can do and I can’t stay late. I’d like to know how much of it I’d be able to attend before committing to the ticket price. Would I be able to see details if I get the app (if so, what’s it called?) or is it only available after ticket purchase? I understand they need to keep it safe from protestors but £55 is a lot to spend blind.

RobinEllacotStrike · 08/10/2025 12:27

In case you don't know the lyrics .....

I AM WOMEN – by HELEN REDDY lyrics

I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back and pretend
'Cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again

Whoa, yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman (ooh)

You can bend, but never break me
'Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul

Oh, yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman (ooh)

I am woman, watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand
Whoa, yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can face anything

I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman
I am woman (I am woman)
I am invincible (I am woman), I am strong
I am woman (I am woman)
I am invincible (I am woman), I am strong
I am woman (I am woman)
I am woman (I am woman)

Hermiaxx · 08/10/2025 11:55

I have emailed FiLiA and asked about setting up a specific chat and will report back.

I’ll be there from Friday but on my own! Hopefully if a chat group is set up some of you will respond 🫣🤞!

peachescariad · 08/10/2025 10:58

RobinEllacotStrike · 08/10/2025 10:36

Go to the bottom of the "home" page and there is a button at the bottom that says "View all discussions". This takes you to the "discussions" part and you can see existing threads and comments & join in

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Ok great I can see that but no MN discussion been set up yet.
I'm going Saturday on my own so would love to meet up

RobinEllacotStrike · 08/10/2025 10:37

Talkinpeace · 08/10/2025 10:04

The app is not good. I have to access it through a browser !

oh no! I hope that it wworks ok for you in the browser.
Its ok on my iphone.

RobinEllacotStrike · 08/10/2025 10:36

fabricstash · 08/10/2025 08:44

I had a look but could not work out how to start a discussion

Go to the bottom of the "home" page and there is a button at the bottom that says "View all discussions". This takes you to the "discussions" part and you can see existing threads and comments & join in

Talkinpeace · 08/10/2025 10:04

The app is not good. I have to access it through a browser !

Hermiaxx · 08/10/2025 09:19

@FiliaDebutante& @fabricstashi agree the app is a bit confusing 🫤!

fabricstash · 08/10/2025 08:44

I had a look but could not work out how to start a discussion

estellacandance · 07/10/2025 23:23

Just go for it.

It will busy up by Friday.

FiliaDebutante · 07/10/2025 22:56

ParmaVioletTea · 04/10/2025 18:29

Why not start a thread in the Discussion bit of the app to set up a MN meet up?

Is it realistic to set up a thread saying meet-up for MNetters only? It also isn't terribly active, lots of unanswered meet-up requests. I'd be worried about tumbleweed, at least I'm anonymous here but I'd have my big embarrassed face on show to all if nobody replied!

ParmaVioletTea · 04/10/2025 18:29

Why not start a thread in the Discussion bit of the app to set up a MN meet up?