School celebrated a Muslim LGBT activist on International Women’s day!

[Threemangoes]

AIBU to be annoyed at the school? I’m baffled as why have the school missed an opportunity here. They already celebrate lgbt history month and then pride in June at school.

Why is this issue that affects a very tiny minority is so heavily influenced in children’s curriculum?

@CarrieSmisher
Perhaps tolerance is not the best work to use maybe acknowledgment or understanding. I don't know but it certainly wasn't meant to offend

I assume all the information you’ve had about this woman came from your primary school child? Because she’s a wider political activist. She does some pretty cool and unusual stuff about widening access to canals and waterways to people of colour. LGBTQ issues are only one of the things she campaigns on. So basically on international women’s day your child’s school celebrated a British woman political campaigner who happens to be a lesbian Muslim. The fact your child only remembered one fact about her and pride doesn’t make that her whole life, the school’s choice was fine.

Surely lgbt topics effect everyone?

I totally agree with you threemangoes, ffs, it’s gone mad, the school probably hunted around until they found someone that ticked the right boxes for them.

As do women that fit your idea of a IWD role model.

LGBT do get some coverage but how many from a Muslim Lesbian background? perfectly placed to talk about the struggles (& death) Women face in other parts of the world?
It was one day in one school.

The way you are going on, you'd think we 'd had 48 hours of wall to wall coverage by this woman across all papers and TV channels.

Lucky she wasn't a back woman. There's already a month to celebrate that and all...

This. But mumsnetters aren't homophobic. Oh no. 'Show me where there is homophobia?

🙄

Then they should work on making their content inclusive for lgbt history and pride. Why are they excluding ethnic minority lgbs?

Why should they have to exactly?
This woman is still a woman, being lesbian and Muslim, has a direct negative affect on Muslim women.
So it was right she was celebrated.

OP, you haven’t denied being a Muslim, so I’ll assume you are, being homophobic is something that comes with the Muslim community.

So far, all your responses lead me to believe, that the only reason you are bothered by this is because your dc, who you are raising as a Muslim, has been made aware of this, and you don’t like that because you think being a gay/lesbian Muslim is something to be ashamed of.

No it doesn't just affect a "tiny minority", lgbt issues affect everyone and hopefully education promotes more tolerance rather than hatred and discrimination.

I don’t get it, she seems like a really good positive role model - who happens to be a woman. And gay. And Muslim.

are YOU Muslim? Because the ‘they already get 2 whole months’ thing is bollocks, they being gay women, so I assume this is just out and out homophobia?

I’m gay, and I can tell you now we don’t ‘get’ two whole months of anything. At best we are tolerated, occasionally accepted, but mostly still have THIS can of shit to put up with in a daily basis.

if you’re after ‘Don’t say gay’ legislation then there are soooooo many places in the world where you can feck off to and enjoy watching LGBTQ people being treated like pariahs.

A lot of assumptions and labelling there.
Lgbt needs to be inclusive of ethnic minorities. Its shocking if they're not!!

You're calling me a Muslim homophobe because I said this?

Go read all my posts.

Good day to you

Who said it’s not inclusive of ethnic minorities?

In my experience of LGBTQ+ community, they are accepting of everyone and anyone.
If you ethnic minorities are underrepresented, well it’s because they are, not because they aren’t accepted by LGBTQ+ community, but because it’s shamed in our community and people are too scared to openly discuss their sexuality.

If you're gay then I was hoping you would be more receptive to different views.
But instead you want me to shut up and fuck off from here.
All I'm saying is different issues could have been celebrated instead to broaden our children's knowledge.
To empower Muslim lesbian girls they need to be provided with education and work for financial independence which will help them live their life in peace.

To empower Muslim lesbian girls they need to be provided with education and work for financial independence which will help them live their life in peace.

How exactly are they meant to live their lives in peace when they are shunned and shamed by the rest of the Muslim community?
It’s not the Muslim lesbian girls that need educating, it’s people like you!

If this is genuinely the case at any school - that teaching children about issues surrounding oppression of women and celebration of women's achievements are actually limited to ONE DAY only on International Women's Day, then THAT is the problem we should be focused on, not the content of a single IWD event.

But instead you want me to shut up and fuck off from here.

That would be ideal

Because without education and jobs they have no other option but to marry men.

I'm glad you said this and showed how accepting you are of people with different views.

People can have different points of view - inferring or stating that it makes then phobic which has been mentioned by some posters is sad as it shows a lack of tolerance ( I think I have used the term correctly here.)

Far be it from me to speak for anyone else, but being gay doesn't make you more receptive to different views if by different views you mean homophobia.

So many people on here have jumped to conclusions about the op, and other posters, with little or no evidence.

Words like homophobia and racism have been freely banded about without knowing posters lived experiences.

If women enforce no debate on other women then we are all losers.

No but you would think it would make them more sympathetic to people with different views.

It’s alright doll, your kids won’t catch “the gay” 😑fuck sake

International women's Day and she's a woman.

Sounds fine to me.

Does her religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation make her any less of a woman?