Protest Lab exhibition for ideas worth fighting for removes "adult human female" stickers!!!!

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The People’s History Museum (PHM) in Manchester has found itself at the centre of a censorship row after it removed a sticker from its Protest Lab gallery, an interactive space that invites visitors to tell their personal stories of protest and share “ideas worth fighting for”.

The sticker read: “Woman, noun, adult human female. Sex is a protected characteristic – Equality Act 2010.”

After retweeting a picture of the sticker, the museum later removed it from the gallery, saying: “We’ve been made aware that the sticker in this image we retweeted is associated with hostility… Any such images/material will be removed from the Protest Lab.”

The PHM said in a subsequent statement: “PHM supports trans rights and women’s rights. We recognise that there are many different perspectives on this subject, which we will always listen to and encourage debate around, as with all issues. Protest Lab is designed to be a space that invites thought and discussion, whilst being a welcoming space for all.”

The Protest Lab is part of the museum’s current Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester.

So yet again women are being told ideas worth fighting for are always men's ideas, never women's.

Yeap, war is peace. There are just so many organisations doing exactly the opposite of their name, nowadays, it is untrue. If it's a lesbian magazine, it will be telling lesbians that they are transphobic if they still believe in sexual attraction, if it's a campaign to get sex stereotypes out of toys, it will be endorsing a book saying that children that don't play with the toys for their stereotype, need to be medicalised.

This is beyond ludicrous.

The whole thing is ridiculous tbh. I think the idea of a curated protest space is about as great an oxymoron as its possible to imagine.

It's *

At least they have amended their signage to include sex and are still collecting from "The wrong side of history"

It's utterly bizarre that woman; adult human female, causes such a meltdown time after time.

Meanwhile the Hayward Gallery (Southbank centre) has teamed up with gendered intelligence to teach teachers all about gender! Hope they remember to include that gender is a social construct and sex is a protected characteristic.

southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/136873-teachers%E2%80%99-twilight-talking-pupils-about-gender-2019#events

Truly Orwellian.

Rivers 'curated protest' is a great expression and needs to enter our lexicon, if it hasn't already.

Do they only want protests that no one contests, then? Because I think they'll find that's not a protest.

Also, note they put trans rights before women's rights. No surprise there.

They definitely need to go through and remove all the other materials that are associated with hostility. Can't give space to protests that aren't universally welcomed and conducted in a nice manner.