And I'm sure she will make as many alliances as she needs to with experts in the field. Why wouldn't she?
Because she's not a team player, and because she doesn't respect the work other women do. This video and crowdfunder is a case in point.
There are loads of women already working in this sector, campaigning and doing work in public and behind the scenes, as they have been for decades. She's insulted their work in this video by implying they're not campaigning against men in refuges, by saying that there are only 2 refuges where women can go without men, and also by saying she's not going to "moan" about it - that's a dig at the women campaigning on this topic already.
No one can argue with her 2 refuges claim, though, as no one wants to bring attention to the refuges where women can have a space away from men.
And, yes, there are lots of managers and people with influence in the sector who need pulling up on wtf they think they're doing, bringing men into women's spaces - but that's not the whole picture and it's deeply offensive for Posie to suggest it is.
Entryism (it has a name, I can't remember - rent farming?) is a significant issue in women's services at the moment. There are lucrative contracts to be won - the contract Rise lost was for £5million over 7 years, for example. And they lost it to a non-specialist provider, a housing association.
The women who have been running refuges for years provide a specialist service. Non-specialists such as housing associations stepping in means women lose out on quality and this can mean their safety is put at risk. It's a race to the bottom. Posie would know this if she bothered to talk to anyone.
If she's serious, as I said, let's see her partner with someone who knows what they're doing. Also, she's only asking for £150k - how far is that going to go?!! It's a drop in the ocean! I notice it's in a crowdfunder where she gets the money even if she doesn't hit the target. There's no mention of where the money will go if she doesn't open a refuge.
And, if she knows of 2 refuges that already exist, then great, why not crowdfund for them, so they can expand their specialist, women-only services?
When the feminists in the 70s started women's refuges from scratch, there were no existing ones to learn from. We have a women's sector now, that's nearly 50 years old, (and some women who's been working in it for nearly that long). It would be madness to reinvent the wheel without their expertise in working with women who've suffered trauma and abuse.