FWR women of the year

[ErrolTheDragon]

It's the time of the year for lists and retrospectives, so let's compile our FWR Women of the Year.

Suggested guidelines (not rules):
No fictional women
Women valued for something more than appearance or entertainment value
Can (should?) include women who we don't all agree with or necessarily admire.

Politicians

Tulsi Gabbard
Senator Claire Chandler
Liz Truss
Joan McAlpine
Joanna Cherry
Jackie Price-Doyle

Jane Clare Jones for starting The Radical Notion, which is looking like a great magazine

Susan Smith For Women Scotland.

Justine Roberts for being the visible face of Mumsnet and sticking to her guns.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Nimko Ali

Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgendertrend for substantive intervention in the Keira Bell judicial review.

Devi Sridhar
Nicola Sturgeon
Ursula Von der Leyen
Datun
Plus all the others already mentioned

Raquel Rosario Sánchez for keeping on keeping on and being a brilliant writer.

Dr Angela Raffle for a) her work b) calling out false claims by the Prime Minister and Health Secretary about Covid testing.

Harriet Wistrich and Julie Bindel

Rosie Duffield MP for truth-telling despite abuse

Also I'm seconding Justine Roberts. This year I've realized how incredibly few places there are for women on the internet. Especially after Reddit decided to delete feminism and stick with the rape threads.

Joanna Cherry

Johann Lamont

Keira Bell

Rosie Duffield

JK Rowling

Susan Evans to add to the lists already upthread

Emma “Fond of Beetles” Hilton for her relentless insistence on scientific truth in the face of a Twitter audience determined to avoid it.

Another vote for Senator Claire Chandler who seems to be the only woman in all of Australia publicly standing up.

Laoise Uí Aodha de Brún

RBG (RIP)

Lang Cleg (MN RIP)

Kathleen Stock, Rosa Freedman and Alice Sullivan for maintaining their commitment to intellectual rigour and rational debate under hostile questioning from the misnamed Women and Equalities Committee.

@NotBadConsidering

Emma “Fond of Beetles” Hilton for her relentless insistence on scientific truth in the face of a Twitter audience determined to avoid it.

Another vote for Senator Claire Chandler who seems to be the only woman in all of Australia publicly standing up.

Snap. Was just about to post both of these!!

Profs Kathleen Stock and Rosa Freedman and Dr Alice Sullivan for speaking so eloquently at the recent Women and Equalities Committee inquiry

@iguanadonna snap/cross post :)

Probs last one I will add - but I'd like to see The Famous Artist Birdy Rose and Stella Illustrator on the list too.

Karen Ingala Smith for her work on femicide and all the women working on:

www.femicidecensus.org/about/

Professor Alice (adults don't speak in soundbite) Sullivan
Professor Kathleen Stock
Professor Rosa Freedman

Took me too long to post!

Another vote for Senator Claire Chandler who seems to be the only woman in all of Australia publicly standing up.

There is another female Australian politician who has also stood up, her name escapes me.