Nominations open: "OFFICIAL" FWR Women of the Year Awards 2021

[WarOnWoman]

Following on from last year's successful awards I welcome you to the "OFFICIAL" FWR's Women of the Year Award 2021 nominations.

These were the guidelines set out by @ErrolTheDragon last year:

*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 (my addition - but most of us would)
My addition: goes without saying women=adult human female.

It could include:

A) FWR heroes, some of whom won't be widely known.
B) women who you might expect to see a women of the year list in a serious newspaper. If they might figure in a 'people of the year' list or, women of the year list.

All category winners will be announced on 31 December.

Please nominate women in the categories and, if you have time, say why you admire them.

Just to be absolutely clear, these categories are ones I came up with last year (after asking ErrolTheDragon). You may or may not agree with them. Please add another category if you think the list needs it and add your nomination.

Academic of the Year
Tireless Campaigner
Freedom of Speech
International
Law, Policy & Politics
Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland)
Science, Medicine and Health
Writing and Journalism
Media and Entertainment
Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage

The overall winner will be the woman who gets the most votes.

FWR WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2021 – tba on 31 December (last year's overall Winner was Keira Bell)

PS Sorry for typos etc.

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Thanks everybody so far.

@LiveintheNow - who is Prof Bauld?

Kathleen Stock - Academic of the Year
Maya Forstater - Tireless Campaigner
Suzanne Moore - Freedom of Speech
Exulansic - International (https://www.youtube.com/c/Exulansic)
Baroness Emma Nicholson - Law, Policy & Politics
Joanna Cherry - Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland)
Emma Hilton - Science, Medicine and Health
Helen Joyce - Writing and Journalism
Allison Bailey - Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage
Stephen Nolan - honourary bloke

Good idea Mrs Overton

Campaign Group of the Year Added

What does FWR mean ?

Feminism and Women's Rights - what this board used to be called before it was, and then wasn't, feminism chat. The acronym, being appropriate, stuck.

I've got a nomination for FWR - @IamSarah for bravery in speaking out about her experience.

Health etc - Milli Hill.

Seconded IamSarah
Campaign group - so many to choose from but Safe Schools Alliance are doing sterling work in helping parents challenge some of the dire materials and groups getting into schools.

Tireless campaigner I’d nominate Hibo Wardere for her unwavering focus on female victims of FGM despite all the pressure on her

Blimey is it a year already?

Here's mine:

• Academic of the Year - Kathleen Stock
• Tireless Campaigner - Nic Williams
• Freedom of Speech - Marian Miller
• International - The Women of Afghanistan
• Law, Policy & Politics - Alison Bailey
• Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland) - Joanna Cherry
• Science, Medicine and Health - Sarah Gilbert

• Writing and Journalism - Emma Barnett
• Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage - Rosie Duffield

@SerfNTerf

I feel like there should be some sort of Own Goal category, kind of like the Darwin Awards, for someone who has accidentally done our work for us...

Sherpa of the Year?

Actually can I also nominate Julie Bindel in tireless campaigner and writing categories. And also Harriet Wistrich for law and for campaigner.

Too many awesome women.

Academic of the Year

• Prof Kathleen Stock
• Prof Jo Phoenix

Tireless Campaigner

• Posie Parker / Kellie-Jay Keen
• For Women Scotland
• Sole Sisters
• Rhona Hotchkiss
• All the women that I've had the honour to interact with over the past two years. I've been lucky to witness their incredible efforts and hard work behind the scenes that will never be publicly known.

Freedom of Speech

• Maya Forstater
• Raquel Rosario Sanchez

International

• Vaishnavi Sundar for her documentaries

Law, Policy & Politics

• Keep Prisons Single Sex (great work in Scotland too)
• Fair Play For Women
• Legal Feminists
• Sex Matters

Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland)

• Murray Blackburn Mackenzie (MBM)
• Joanna Cherry

Science, Medicine and Health

• Dr Emma Hilton
• Dr Alice Sullivan (not sure if she comes under Law, Policy & Politics)

Writing and Journalism

• Helen Joyce

Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage

• The lesbians who spoke to the BBC about the cotton ceiling
• Allison Bailey
• Sonia Appleby
• Keira Bell

I feel like there should be some sort of Own Goal category, kind of like the Darwin Awards, for someone who has accidentally done our work for us...

Agree @SerfNTerf

Is that a Ratner moment or do we need a female Ratner to bear the name?

Writing and Journalism Janice Williams. Should be Janice Turner.

Having a middle aged moment 😁

Ok I'm probably breaking the rules with my multiple nominations but can I add Caroline Criado Perez?
And bloody hell I can't leave out JKR.

Campaign Group FPFW

For Media and Entertainment I'm going to nominate Billie Eilish for talking about how porn has negatively impacted her and while we are on the subject:

International - Laila Mickelwait - for her doggedness in holding PornHub to account.

Campervan69 - you can nominate multiple women. No probs.

So many to choose from ..

Academic of the Year Kathleen Stock
Tireless Campaigner Maya Forstater
Freedom of Speech Jess de Wahls
International The women of Afghanistan
Law, Policy & Politics Baroness Nicholson/Rosie Duffield (cant decide)
Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland) Joanna Cherry
Science, Medicine and Health Emma Hilton
Writing and Journalism Helen Joyce for Trans
Media and Entertainment Emma Barnett
Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage JK Rowling
Blokes award Stephen Nolan and team for their podcast and Andrew Doyle on GBNews.
Campaigning group award for LGB Alliance. Amazing what they've put up with and still they persist.

Keira Bell
JKR
Jess de Wahls
the Baroness
Sonia Appleby
Posie Parker (thorn in their side award)
Murray Blackburn McKenzie
Transgender Trend
Sex Matters
Karen Ingala-Smith
Maya Forstater

Own goal - please Dr Haddock

Oh and Helen Joyce, CCP, Julie Bindel, Allison Bailey, Emma Barnett and Stephen Nolan and team.

Maybe Nancy Kelley also for own goal award.

@BettyFilous Sorry but having just watched 14 Peaks I cannot call an own goal category "sherpa of the year". Plus I'm not sure I would like an own goal category @SerfNTerf because this is about celebrating the wonderful work that women do.

[quote WarOnWoman]**@BettyFilous* Sorry but having just watched 14 Peaks I cannot call an own goal category "sherpa of the year". Plus I'm not sure I would like an own goal category @SerfNTerf* because this is about celebrating the wonderful work that women do.[/quote]
I agree - and while it may be tempting it runs the risk of degenerating this thread into 'not in the spirit'.

Campaigner Hibo Wardere.

Law, policy, politics: Naomi Cunningham

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, led the development of the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine; Health.

Suzanne Moore: Freedom of Speech / journalism

Professor Kathleen Stock :Academic

Professor Deborah Cameron, Oxford Linguistics professor @wordspinster on Twitter and author of the brilliant blog ‘Language: a feminist guide’, in Cat A.

JKR:courage

Julie Bindel: Tireless Campaigner.