FiLiA sessions 2021

[purpleboy]

So the FiLiA sessions are open now to book. The speakers list is brilliant!
How many from FWR are going?
Is anyone planning a meet up?

It looks really good.

Yep I'll be there

I'll be there, is anyone going to the party?

I'm going

🙋🏽‍♀️ I'm going to the party

I'm hoping to go to the party - I have a ticket but I also suffer with chronic fatigue so it's possible I'll be asleep by the evening!

How will we meet up (if anyone wants to?)

I spotted a mumsnet thread on the app :)

How do you register for the party? Could not see it.

I'm on the waiting list for the party but realistically I think the majority won't get a ticket for it tbh.

The sessions look excellent.

@SquinnySaurus yes, i noticed about the waiting list!
I have chosen with great difficulty!
Great line up!
I bet there will be some dinosaurs 🦕 too!

Julia Bindel:

thecritic.co.uk/the-quiet-cancellations/

'ifty miles down the coast from Brighton, Portsmouth might seem an unlikely candidate for the next bitter battle line in the so-called “gender wars”. Dominated by its biggest employer — the Royal Navy — some of the most deprived areas in the UK sit alongside pockets of Hampshire affluence. Of what interest are the ever more complicated micro-identities of the blue-fringed genderqueer demisexual, to this working-class naval city? On the face of it, none. But Portsmouth is a case study of the disastrous impact on women and girls — particularly those from working class and/or ethnic minority communities — when a small but loud lobby of self-designated “progressives” is given free rein to shut down any discussion or activism devoted to them.'

Well written Julie.

What is the matter with people?

Thanks lionheart for the really interesting article by Julie Bindel which highlights how it particularly impacts on the marginalised and vulnerable when political/gender purity is prioritised above all.

I'm so looking forward to the weekend - if a little apprehensive - as never been to something like it before.

Me too ANewCreation.

How are people meeting up, v late to the party as wasn’t sure I’d make it.

@lanadelgrey

How are people meeting up, v late to the party as wasn’t sure I’d make it.

If you go to the Community part of the conference app (the Whova app for ticket-holders) there's lots about meet-ups in and around the conference, as well as security.

Have a fantastic time, everyone who is going!

Hope all attendees are having a great time.

Lots of stuff to follow on Twitter using #FiLiA2021

This is what protesters are against 🤦‍♀️

Julie Bindel was excellent

Suck my dick you transphobic cunts

They seem nice.

They don't seem to feel very "unsafe".

I suspect that if they brought that sign to a male-dominated group they might. But it's only women.

when a small but loud lobby of self-designated “progressives” is given free rein to shut down any discussion or activism devoted to them.'

The comparison to the Deptford Project experience couldn't be more obvious - nor could the lack of learning by the self-styled progressives to learn from the women and girls there.