BFI appoint Munroe Bergdorf as keynote speaker for #womanwithacamera summit

[SunsetBeetch]

This is just getting flipping ridiculous now. Munroe has made one very recent, very shoddy documentary.

Thrilled to be opening the @BFI #WomanWithAMovieCamera Summit to talk about feminism, power and culture.

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Blindsiding females, innit?

The security guard for the building site at the BFI (its being refurbished). He told me I wasn’t allowed to put my pictures on social media as well...

Born Female (Idiot)

So the BFI are wilfully blind to women? Speaks volumes about them and their ethics. Men prefer men again.

BigFuckingInsult.

BoysFirstInevitably

ByeFemaleIntegrity.

My female parts are giving me considerable trouble ATM. Back from the hospital a short time ago.

Not in the mood for this literal and metaphorical bollocks.

recent article in Independent,
'How the far right is attacking the lives of the transgender community - and what we can do to stop it'

(concludes)
"Another key force fighting the right wing attacks on the transgender community is the tireless work of activists themselves, who fight day in and day out to challenge the status quo.

Activists and transgender people such as Jake Graf, Monroe Bergdorf, Hannah Winterborne, Lily Madigan, and Shon Fey all use their platforms to chip away at the negative propaganda.

Despite being subject to a barrage of abuse on social media platforms like Twitter, and some even reporting the receipt of death threats, their high-profile presence ploughs the furrow for younger gender non-conforming people, and gives them role models.

For Jake, one of the most important thing is that the cisgender community can do to support transgender rights is to get on board and support the transgender cause. Speaking to indy100, he said:

Now more than ever, allies' support is vital as there are too few of us to always make our voices heard"

www.indy100.com/article/how-the-far-right-is-attacking-the-lives-of-the-transgender-community-and-what-we-can-do-to-stop-it-8369021

Men get to debate.

We get to suffer.

Typical.

This isn't a theoretical academic game for us FFS. I can't imagine how demoralised women filmmakers must feel about this. I'd love a statement from some powerful Hollywood women like Kathleen Kennedy, but doubt anyone would be brave enough.

Article in the Guardian, a little more neutral than the one about Mumsnet's new language policing.
www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/15/bfi-munroe-bergdorf-women

Especially for the Guardian, that article seemed okay to me. They mentioned both the fact that Munroe is not actually a filmmaker, nor a natural born female.

The author describes Munroe as a "trans activist" and "trans model and activist Munroe Bergdorf (who identifies as a woman)"

Munroe referred to by "she" pronouns throughout, as is polite. However, in the article is never called a "trans woman", "a woman," "a feminist", or "a women's activist."

It's subtle, but I found it interesting.

Well done SwearyG et al!

I'm really tired of hearing this 'widening the lens, widening the bandwidth' language.

I've never seen people inviting straight people to a LGB event to talk about 'widening the bandwidth of what it's like to be LGB' (well, apart from straight 'queer' people muscling into the ever-expanding alphabet soup of LGBTQetc)

I've never seen someone delivering a keynote speech at an event about people of colour, because they're 'widening the bandwidth of what it's like to be a person of colour'.

I've never seen women playing in a men's sporting team and being celebrated for 'widening the bandwidth of men's sporting teams'.

I've never seen someone aged 20 speaking about their experiences at an AgeUK event to enable the 'widening of the bandwidth of what it's like to be an older person in society'.

It's seems it's just the definition of female that needs widening in terms of bandwidth.

I thought the Independent (unsurprisingly) went out of business?

*NB: ' white people delivering a keynote speech at an event about people of colour.

Posted in haste!

Not quite Geordie. They just couldn’t afford to put a print paper out anymore. I’ll make no comment as to why that might be.

Pombear - great post

Thank you Man Friday chaps for your good work.

Well done to ManFriday yet again. Perhaps we could identify as suitable key note speakers for the BFI woman behind the camera event, would have to be a man naturally, perhaps even know something about film making or not.

ManFriday. There are not enough emojis for how much I bloody appreciate you fellas. You blokes are legends. Thank you.

Pombear

Exactly

Did anyone else find this line in the BFI's statement, 'encourage audiences to recognise and acknowledge the quality and value of difference' disgustingly patronising?

I don't want to be their audience if that's how they talk down to us.

The woman who directed Morvern Callar struck me as an impressive, thoughtful and driven person during interviews at the time of release.

Lynne Ramsay says wikipedia.

She’s a Scottish film director, producer and screenwriter says wikipedia.

Weird the BFI can’t use google, eh?

I think the Bfi must have some woke dude brocialists on management who came up with this crap idea. I mean, these people are infiltrated everywhere, on councils changing policy, the police, who knows where else.