London Mayoral Hustings - What will you do to end violence against women? EVAW, Imkaan and WRC - 21 April 2021 17:00

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Host: Samira Ahmed

Parties and representatives (alphabetically by party):
Conservative Party
Cllr Louise Calland, GLA Candidate for Merton & Wandsworth
Green Party
Mary Ion, GLA Candidate for Bexley and Bromley
Labour Party
Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Sophie Linden
Liberal Democrats Party
Irina Von Wiese, GLA List Candidate
Women's Equality Party
Mandu Reid, Candidate for Mayor of London

The questions will fall into the following broad themes:

• A VAWG strategy and action plan fit for all survivors
• The policing response to VAWG
• Funding for the specialist women's support sector, including services run 'by and for' Black and Minoritised women
• Tackling structural inequalities
• Women's socio-economic empowerment

If you would like to contribute a question, you will have the opportunity to do so during registration. This does not guarantee it will be included, and questions may be merged/combined to avoid duplication.

Access: BSL interpreter and palantypist close captions will be provided.

Register online at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-mayoral-hustings-tickets-150918793173

I will be interested in how many of the candidates accurately name the issue as male violence against women.

Who are 'minoritised' women?

And where did that bloody word come from?

I think minoritised is voluntary sector speak for what used to be BME because everybody loathes the horrible BAME word that the media came up with.

Although maybe it means anyone who is a minority eg disabled, or ...

Just after posting this saw LGB Alliance is having one at the same time, and now my HA along with others is also having a hustings at the same time.

I feel my "identities" are now having a civil war as to which one will be pandered to!

Groups commonly called 'ethnic minorities' (or 'minority ethnic' in the context of BAME) is not a 'natural' minority but a product of a particular society/history. Women of colour (black and brown, indigenous, 'non-white') are a global ethnic majority. The term minoritised includes the understanding that some groups are actively minoritised (other terms might be 'othered' or 'racialised') in relation to an assumed white normative majority position.

Thanks for that explanation (I had to read it a few times) but think I grasp its intention. I hope it has meaning for those it is meant to encompass, but suspect the very mainstream that minoritises others wont grasp it.

Anyhow, although the hustings wont have any of the actual candidates answering questions apparently they have spoken to Stylist magazine about VAW!

www.stylist.co.uk/news/politics/london-mayoral-election-violence-against-women/509062