What small/local things will you be doing to support women in 2020?

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Looking for ideas on how to support women in the new year that a) don't cost a lot (already donate to larger causes), and b) will make a difference on a local level.

Milestone b'day this year, and I want to use it to fundraise for local women's shelter.

Giving money to good causes and fighting like hell to keep the rights, language and boundaries we have already fought like hell for.

Posted too soon...

Signing petitions
Writing to my MP and government ministers
Correcting forms that use gender in place of sex
Stickering toilets
Boycotting all companies that don't care about women
Forming stronger bonds with all female groups
Supporting orgs with my free time

Do you have a local women’s centre? There could be all kinds of volunteer roles available with differing time commitments (I’m a trustee of my local women’s centre, but we also have lots of other voluntary roles. If you’re in Hertfordshire let me know!)

Ensuring I say 'sex' not 'gender' where remotely possible.

Challenge in writing any inappropriate use of 'gender' - I got one org to change a public notice this year by quoting the Equality Act.

Attend at least one more WPUK meeting - Brighton was my baptism by fire

Quietly continue sharing news stories here and with like minded people

Sign petitions

Keep reading about developments and key players

But I still cannot say a word about it on social media or with anyone I don't know for sure shares my views ...

Unfortunately I imagine food Bank donations still probably make a big difference to women.

Buy this is a really good, timely thread, certainly made me think about what I can do locally x

I'm joining the ReSisters in my city. I was in touch with them earlier in December, and they've invited me to a meeting in the New Year.

I'm newly pregnant, so I'm also going to question and counter every occurrence and incident of wokery/regulatory capture during my dealings with the Liverpool Women's Hospital.

I'd like to do something to address violence against women. Not sure exactly what, yet.

And promote small local groups, for women to meet and bond over craft/pastimes/etc.

Worth looking into local community/amenity centres to see who's keeping them open. These are heavily used for low cost activities that primarily benefit women and their children. Most have lost funding under austerity but it's vital they keep their doors open and maintain affordable hire fees. (Mine costs about £10k per year to keep the doors open and lost £3.5k in local authority grants but we've managed, by hooks and crooks, to keep the hire fees stable.)

Bezalelle, did you contact them via the site? I’m guessing events have to be secret locations etc.

Is there any update on the meeting held by Baroness Nicholson please?

using sex not gender when sex is the accurate word to use
signing petitions
donating to crowdfunders
supporting womens projects in my local area (after checking closely they mean biological women)

Not having anything to do with anything using the word Womxn

I've talked to the organiser of a grass roots mental health support group for women about getting involved.

There have been a spate of very high profile suicides lately in my area, many of them men. In response there have been two mens mental health support groups gain massive support and funding while the woman's one is doing raffles and tombolas to scrape a few quid together.

I understand and support men to have their own single sex spaces but women deserve that too.

I scoured a primary school website for policies and found the word sex used where it should be, then I noticed the word gender being wrongly used in other documents.

I will be challenging this.

My motto for 2020...
Check, find, challenge.

Also
No apparent author seems to be an increasing trend so I will be digging into this aspect too.