Feminist student society sanctioned by Bristol University

[ArabellaScott]

Currently crowdfunding to protect their right to maintain a single sex space.

This looks pretty important, to me. Crowdfunder on Crowd Justice, if you search using the title of this thread you should find it.

'Our case could be the among the first brought by women who were directly prevented from or sanctioned for using the single-sex exemptions under the Equality Act 2010. The rights everyone has to single-sex spaces mean nothing if public bodies and institutions, such as the Bristol SU, can override and dictate which rights women should or should not have.

All we want is to hold our women-only consciousness-raising meetings where we discuss our lives and unapologetically centre ourselves. We simply want the BSU to abide by the law and recognise that their sanctions against us were unfair and discriminatory. We want to continue operating using the single-sex exemptions for our restricted consciousness-raising meetings, and to continue holding our successful public feminists events where everybody is welcomed'

I just posted a link and it was hidden, why?

Here’s their website anyway

www.womentalkback.org/

Thanks Waltzing - done it.

My link was to the crowdjustice campaign but you can get to it from their main website

WTF though?

@RealhousewifeofBarnardCastle

This post has been hidden until the MNHQ team can have a look at it.

Not allowed to post direct links to crowd funders.

@RealhousewifeofBarnardCastle MNHQ automatically block any Crowdfunder links. I've fallen foul of it myself in the past.

Oh ok, how odd, thanks for explaining, I didn’t know.

@RealhousewifeofBarnardCastle

Oh ok, how odd, thanks for explaining, I didn’t know.

I know, the rules can be quite annoying sometimes.

Keeping this bumped, having just done a bit more digging.

Women only spaces are so important.

@LongBlobson

Keeping this bumped, having just done a bit more digging.

Women only spaces are so important.

Quite

Just bumping this again for the weekend crowd . 9 days to go if anyone else can dig.

@Andante57

WaltzingBetty how did you donate? I’d like to give a donation.

There are men only clubs which presumably are legal so why not the other way round?

If anyone wants to find it go to the Crowdjustice website and search for Women Talk Back.

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[quote RealhousewifeofBarnardCastle]Here’s their website anyway

www.womentalkback.org/[/quote]

Oh I didn't know they had a website! Thank you, I'll take a look.

I hope they win as the Act does allow those spaces and it is time we women fought back to assert our rights.

@Xenia

I hope they win as the Act does allow those spaces and it is time we women fought back to assert our rights.

So do I Xenia

@CreepingDeath

Just bumping this again for the weekend crowd . 9 days to go if anyone else can dig.

I do find these reminders so very handy! Thank you kindly, spade duly employed.

This is such a important case. But it'll be complicated because it's partly about whether the students union is allowed to prevent member groups from exercising their rights under ea 2010. I hope it will establish that what the group want to do (hold female only events- meaning natal female) is lawful. So is the su allowed to have a blanket rule that means affiliated groups are not allowed to do that? It would also be lawful to hold a group for womem including tw, but the su want that to be the only option. As an umbrella organisation would they be allowed to prevent student groups from using the exception which means ppl from the same religion or ethnicity can gather together without others? Or do the individual student groups enjoy the right to use the exceptions regardless of the su's opinion?

Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's about the specific harrassment and discrimination against the women rather than the rules as such.

Either way it all needs to come out in court.

Completely agree Xenia

Thanks - I have just donated.

I was at a meeting once where we were discussing who was and wasn't allowed into our "women-only" sessions. Later I asked if I could join the men-only session if I identified as a man. Was met with . They clearly hadn't thought about that possibility.

A very worthy cause to support. I donated recently and hope she feels boosted by all the support she's getting.

Thanks for the links.

Donated.
Thanks for sharing.

Hang on, so we no longer have the right to gather? As women? Not allowed?

Donated.

This is shameful. Academia is losing the plot. This is what #nodebate did - killed debate.

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