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Silencing Women event, Swansea University, 8 March

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pattihews · 19/02/2023 20:20

I know Swansea's a long way from most places but please support this event if you can. Professors Jo Phoenix, Alice Sullivan and Judith Suissa are trekking out west to participate in this ground-breaking event for Wales. On International Women's Day they'll be talking at Swansea University's Taliesin Arts Centre about their struggles for academic freedom and the right to use sex-based research. Joan Smith, journalist and Sex Matters Advisory Board member will chair. This is really important for Wales, where gender ideology is backed by a Labour government that's been in power for 23 years and is so confident in its ability to win the next election that it's decided it doesn't need to consult with women and minorities affected by its plans.

As you can imagine, the pushback has started. There are petitions and protests about the safety of transpeople on the university campus. But still we persist.

Please book a ticket and come if you can. Or buy a solidarity ticket in the back few rows of the auditorium: if you talk to the box office the ticket can be offered to local women who can't afford to pay. Or circulate the publicity among all your social networks. Perhaps someone, somewhere will have a contact in Swansea who'd like to come and meet other like-minded people.
Thank you.

Silencing Women event, Swansea University, 8 March
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Temporaryanonymity · 08/03/2023 22:55

I was hoping to get there but unfortunately I already had tickets for a show at the Grand Theatre. Mark Drakeford will be standing down shortly and I suspect there will be an opportunity to make this an issue in the race for a new Leader.

Tonia is great btw. Not all of us in the Labour Party think the same way, and are trying to influence from within.

Timingiseverythingcoll · 08/03/2023 23:02

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wantmorenow · 08/03/2023 23:24

One audience member asked the panel what those of us not in academia could do. Apparently there is a video of Kathleen Stock where she lists what she believes we can do to support and raise awareness of the issues, also the panel said that not abandoning political parties (labour) as we need a voice from within. Made sense, I see a lot of comments from people on MN saying they feel politically homeless but this was an appeal to stay engaged with the parties even if they don't share GC views as our voice needs to be heard and we can effect changes only if we are there and active. Made sense and was perhaps more optimistic then I have felt in past.

Mizzem · 09/03/2023 00:04

What a brilliant evening. Met loads of people, and the speakers were fantastic. Feel more optimistic than I have done in ages. Kudos to the people who made this happen, and the Taliesin and Swansea uni for hosting it. The so called protest...barely a peep really. I walked past and just heard some bleating over a muffled megaphone...something about toilet attendants?! Lots of very young faces, mostly young women, looking very cold and wet, with no idea that a bunch of worldly wise, hardened, clever fantastic women were sitting nearby trying to fix the mess...FOR THEM. They'll realise one day, when the world bites them in a way that feminism in the true sense of the word will start to make real sense.

EnfysPreseli · 09/03/2023 17:34

I think the video mentioned was of Helen Joyce at the Education for Women's Liberation conference at UCL, not of Kathleen Stock.

pattihews · 09/03/2023 18:37

It was a good evening. I managed to talk to several women sitting around me and I'm meeting up with a couple of them next week to cement our contact. They thought they were the only GC women in South Wales and were delighted to see 200+ more!

The protesters were kept so far apart from the entrance to the arts centre that we didn't see or hear them and had to go and find them to take photographs.

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wantmorenow · 09/03/2023 20:19

@EnfysPreseli thanks -explains why I can't find it. 😕Would be great to have the link if you have it.😀Just did their post event survey for the arts centre - gender question on it not sex. Followed up with an email explaining why I found the survey to be pushing gender theory rather than evidence and fact based data. Think I'm getting the hang of this quiet and polite activism now . Think they may get many more emails if people try to fill in their survey.

BastardtheCat · 10/03/2023 06:50

Gutted I missed this. I'm just down the road too

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