I bet she is, Shintyfart.
I had a fab time yesterday, I didn’t make the meetup unfortunately as my morning workshop overran slightly and by the time I’d got to pret and back to get a sandwich, and then find CR1 there was just a confused looking crêche worker there asking if I was Hugo’s mum! (I’m noone’s mum, unless you count the menagerie! Hope Hugo’s mum found him).
I feel wonderfully inspired to get more involved in feminist activism though, attend more stuff, keep reading, and keep learning, not ‘just’ feminism but environmentalism, racism, social justice etc. Sometimes it all feels so overwhelming that you think, what’s the point, what can little old me do, I’m just one person. But he answer is, you can’t do everything, but you can do something.
Sister Outrider’s speech at the keynote was particularly thought provoking, on interracial solidarity in the feminist movement, particularly addressing what white women can do. It’s an uncomfortable topic and she did it well, I’m going to start reading her blog and learning more about black feminism. I’ve always felt “that’s not for me”, probably in the same way men think “feminism isn’t for me”, as it’s difficult to think of yourself as the oppressor. Also she included “no is a complete sentence” in her presentation, and I’m sure a few of you here were with me in the audible chuckle that got.
I was also very pleasantly impressed with Sophie Walker’s speech. Impressed enough that I might get my thoughts together and start a new thread on reconsidering WEP later. I’m one of the resigners due to their support of a violent transwoman with a functioning penis being placed in the female prison estate, I was disgusted with them, and their subsequent inability to define a woman without circular reasoning. But yesterday she spoke passionately and eloquently, highlighting many many issues in an unambiguously angry but determined way, albeit the elephant in the room for anyone in the know was the lack of acknowledgement of the gender self-identity debate.
Hope everyone going today has a fab time too!