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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STEM. Amazing woman and a force of nature.

Thread has gone quiet but we're not the Guardian.

Last day for any last minute nominations.

Winners announced on New Year's Eve.

So many wonderful women in those nominations, but I just wanted to mention Kiera Belll who was mentioned in earlier posts. She was so courageous to take the Tavistock to court, and I'm presuming she could have requested to remain anonymous in those proceedings.

Academic of the Year - MBM Policy
Tireless Campaigner - Tinsel
Freedom of Speech - Kathleen Stock
International - Abigail Shrier
Law, Policy & Politics - Naomi Cunningham
Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland) - Joanna Cherry
Science, Medicine and Health - Still thinking
Writing and Journalism - Helen Joyce
Media and Entertainment - Still thinking
Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage - Allison Bailey

Will there be hustings?

Academic of the Year

Kathleen Stock

Tireless Campaigner

Kellie-Jay Keen

Freedom of Speech

Maya Forstater

International

Kara Dansky

Law, Policy & Politics

Baroness Nicholson

Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland)

Murray, Blackburn, Mackenzie

Science, Medicine and Health

Prof Sarah Gilbert

Writing and Journalism

Jo Bartosch

Media and Entertainment

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage

Keira Bell

FWR Shero

TinselAngel

FWR Legacy

LangCleg

Newcomer individual/group

Repeal the GRA

I've added "Sport"

Academic of the Year - Kathleen Stock
Tireless Campaigner - Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (Posie Parker)
Freedom of Speech - Maya Forstater
International - Exulansic
Law, Policy & Politics - Kate Coleman (Keep Prisons Single Sex)
Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland) - Murray, Blackburn, Mackenzie
Science, Medicine and Health - Emma Hilton
Writing and Journalism - Jo Bartosch
Media and Entertainment - Jess de Wahls
Courage Calls to Courage Award - For Outstanding Courage - Rosie Duffield
Campaign Group - For Women Scotland
Innovation and inspiration in STEM - Prof Sarah Gilbert
Sport - Coach Linda Blade

Courage calls to courage: JKR ❤️

Love all these suggestions. It's incredible to me how difficult it would have been to come up with nominations even 3/4 years ago yet now we have many brave and tireless women to choose from. Including those here on FWR.

Happy New Year to you all