The FWR Magdelen Berns memorial awards for Feminism 2019 *Title edited at OP's request*

[TinselAngel]

Now granted, I've not fully fleshed this idea out, but in the light of @theflushedzebra pointing out that trans activists never seem to stop giving each other awards, we should have our own virtual FWR awards for services to feminism in 2019.

As the founder of this ceremony, I expect designers will be queuing up to allow me to "wear" them.

Post your nominations below, and feel free to describe how fabulous you look at the ceremony!

My nomination for best British female solo artist goes to : Maya Forstarter for grace and clarity under considerable pressure.

I need to give Datun an award for being the one who drew my attention to FWR.

The Radicalisation Portal Award

Joani Walsh. Janice turner

Has Barracker been nominated?

Services to Pronouns Award.

fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/

Sonia poulter

Oh yeah barracker awesome

Lion cubs on twitter

GoinglikeElsie for tweeting the Yaniv tribunal. Fantastic citizen journalism.

I want to nominate Angela and Leanne from Get the L Out for their sterling work at Pride events.

I also want to nominate the unnamed women who spread the word on a day to day basis by starting conversations and promoting GC opinions on social media, supporting the movers and shakers.
We have some amazing women in Wales who are doing this work in the face of much opposition. Others have listed all the women and groups I admire and support.

What a fantastic way to honour Magdalen ❤️

I'm loving MrsFogi's melting ice scrotum idea

Amazing thread love this

Seconding all the nominees above, also

Justice award to Fiona MacKenzie, for founding We Can’t Consent To This and being this close to changing the law - she will do it

Tenacity award to Fannycann for her posting around the surrogacy law change consultation and keeping everyone all responding to it when nobody could believe how fucking long that thing was

Actually Brave and Stunning award to Charlie Evans for founding the Detransition advocacy network and all the other detransitioned women who went public this year

Kicking against the Pricks award to Prof Kathleen Stock for compiling the experiences of academics silenced and harassed by misogynistic authoritarian on campus and to Rosa Freedman too

Safeguarding heroes award to Susan Evans and Mum A who are taking the Tavi to judicial review - thank you

All-weather hero award to ManiacMagpie who kept up her weekly public GC protest spot in Cambridge town centre for months

Solidarity award to LGB Alliance and especially Allison Bailey for telling it like it is and showing what an actual LGB advocacy leader looks like

Get the L Out because they are total legends always

littl for coming back from the dead or the pub or wherever she went

Investigative award to Newsnight’s journalists Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes who asked questions of the Tavi and followed up with more and wrote a BMJ paper about it.. keep going!

Prof Susan Bewley for writing to medical journals about the risk to children of transition and Prof Carl Heneghan for asking for evidence of benefit for what is being done to GNC kids

All the Tavi whistleblowers this year

Real life superhero award to Stickerwoman

Janice Turner, Julie Bindel, Sarah Ditum, James Kirkup, Andrew Gillian, and all the other journalists who get it

Everyone who changes the word ‘gender’ to ‘sex’ on forms

All the FWR posters and lurkers

Pencils and spero for and tweets. Jacky Holyoake for knowledge of the equality acr

Transcriptions and tweets..

Great thread! I wish I could buy everyone a drink of their choice. Maybe even the unwilling sherpas - but it will be in special vulvic glasses..

Has Owen Jones been nominated in the Sherpa category yet?

Yes to everyone mentioned. Nominating Rachel Moran and Fiona Broadfoot for the Ovaries of Steel award. Cut to a clip of Rachel Moran looking deep into a male TV host's eyes saying in her Irish lilt "I won't hear any more of this sex work utter nonsense, the main skill of a prostitute is resisting the urge to vomit".

Upthread I forgot

Michael Conroy for the Jelly Baby Award

Beatrix Campbell and Andy Healy for endurance with The Greens

The women who were peacefully leafleting when police on horseback were called to The Green Party conference
Dr Nicola Williams
Kiri Trunks, Ruth Serwotka and Judith Green
Sarah Ditum
Dr Jane Clare Jones
Get the L Out
Johnny Best

Un-Fucking Party Politics award- to all the women in every political party who made the GC petitions and who fight against their sexist policies, to everyone who has been emailing their election candidates GC questions for this General Election

Definitely Jacky - Services to the Equality Act

Has Stella O’Malley been nominated?

Spero - barrister Sarah Phillimore for relentlessly pursuing the NSPCC over rubbergate and forcing them to reverse their position that complainants were bigots for pointing out that NSPCC staff should not be publicising their rubber wanking fetish in the workplace. They were forced to act and to refer themselves to the Charity Commission.

Caroline Criado Perez, Cordelia Fine and Gina Rippon, jointly awarded the award for services to feminist science writing.

The Sherpa award is difficult because there are so many candidates - Haddock, McKinnon, Steph Hayden, little OJ. Probably though the one person to bring more people than any other to the peak of Mount Trans is Jessica Yaniv.

I think Lil OJ should get the Sanctimonious Morph award in a category of his own. I just looked for a picture to accompany this suggestion and the temptation to post the penis-related one is overwhelming. But I'm on the naughty step for being insufficiently compliant towards Phillip Lee, LibDem misogynist, so dare not. You could google "naughty Morph" if you are as childish as me.

I just googled "naughty Morph"!

I knew you would!

I just cant help myself. Sorry!

My innocence is ruined.