A Woman's Medal

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We need some kind of woman's medal we can award to certain women who fight for us.
I propose a silver Lily.

I'm awarding it to JK Rowling, Magdelaine Berns, Jenni Murray, Maya Forstater, Keira Bell, Rosie Duffield...
Please add.

Geneviève Glück

The Baroness

Kathleen Stock, Jane Clare Jones, Stephanie Davies-Arai, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, Sarah Ditum, Janice Turner, Victoria Smith/Glosswitch, Raquel Rosario Sanchez etc etc

Allison Bailey, Heather Brunskill-Evans, Susan Evans, Dr Jessica Taylor, Karen Ingala-Smith, Selina Todd

Allison Bailey and Jackie-Doyle Price.

X posted for Allison there

Jenny Lindsay, Germaine Greer

Brilliant idea, i second all above

Special recognition category for the incognito women, working hard with no public accolades, some in really difficult personal circumstances, but committed to the liberation of all their sisters.❤

Second all of these,
To everyone bringing legal cases and everyone writing and talking to their MPs.
Keira, and the anonymous girl’s mum, Ann Sinnott, Allison Bailey,
Fiona We Can’t Consent to This, the women’s justice centre.

Posie standing for women, the lesbians on chairs and everyone whose had police interest in their opinions

LGB alliance and Get the L Out

Sammy Woodhouse, Deptford Peoples Project,

Sharron, Martina,

Dr nic

Everyone trying to clean up party politics

The MPs and peers who stand up for us- Duffield, Doyle-Price, Truss this year,
Baroness Nicholson

There were some excellent nominees and ways of awarding In this thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3761080-The-FWR-Magdelen-Berns-memorial-awards-for-Feminism-2019-Title-edited-at-OPs-request?pg=6

If there’s a men’s sub category, Glinner and Jonny Best honourable mention

Rachel Rooney, Julia Long, Posie Parker, Sheila Jeffreys, Julie Bindel

Rosa Freedman, Alice Sullivan, Meghan Murphy

Joanna Cherry and Joan McAlpine

The Baroness!!

Justine & MNHQ for hosting these discussions at considerable cost to them and refusing to allow woman to be silenced.

TinselAngel for giving a voice to the transwidows, who are otherwise too often forgotten.

Katie Alcock for her guides case.

Seconding Cherry and McAlpine as the Parliamentary early supporters on this and adding David TC Davies MP for hosting women when nobody else would

Birdy rose

Janice Turner, Hadley Freeman, Suzanne Moore

Helen Joyce and Lucy Masoud, just for being so damn clear and articulate on this.

Sharron Davies and Baroness Grey-Thompson

Great idea. The suffragettes had a medal system. What should the modern version look like?

I think the new medal should have the text "for valour" as well!

womansplaceuk.org/2020/09/12/truth-allies/

Sarah Field, Sarah Field, Sarah Field.

Hibo Wardere and Jana Cornel for their work to raise awareness of the harms of fgm and the harm it does to girls & women

Delurking to nominate Nicola Adams for speaking out against TW inclusion in women's sports.