New book coming out! "The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht"

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Co-edited by Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Susan Dalgety.

Comes out in a fortnight:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Who-Wouldnt-Wheesht/dp/1408720701/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Evn51TzBTQrJe9b9GbEHyEFxl2MMln5spNZq8KWlzZA.Z6MAj1OSoGOZ1ctUF1Qr819FGWFktyVV0qkMp_0q3pc&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+women+who+wouldn%27t+wheesht&qid=1715848364&sr=8-1

"On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave feminists of the 1970s and 1980s, took on the political establishment - and changed the course of history.

Through a collection of over thirty essays and photographs, some of the women involved tell the story of the five-year campaign to protect women's sex-based rights. Author J.K. Rowling explains why she used her global reach to stand up for women. Leading SNP MP Joanna Cherry writes of how she risked her political career for her beliefs. Survivors of male violence who MSPs refused to meet are given the voice they were denied at Holyrood. Ash Regan MSP recounts what it was like to become the first government minister to resign on a question of principle since the SNP came to power in 2007. Former prison governor Rhona Hotchkiss charts how changes in prison policy in Scotland led to the controversy over Isla Bryson.

It is the story of women who risked their job, reputation, even the bonds of family and friendship, to make their voices heard, and ended up - unexpectedly - contributing to the downfall of Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first woman first minister."

Features essays from JKR and others.

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/jk-rowling-writes-essay-on-standing-up-for-women-for-new-book-on-campaign-to-protect-rights-4629745

Got mine in Waterstones, not obviously on display, but I wasn't the first person to ask for it as the assistant knew exactly where it was🤣

A local Waterstones has a pile of them on the table as you enter, pretty prominent position.

Huge kudos to the brave authors and publishers. This will be top of my reading list.

And if you want a bit of Terfy fiction, Drew Augustine has just published the Twenty Murders on Amazon which is a GC mystery crime thriller.

The tide is turning 😊

Ooo I love a bit of crime fiction!

I'm currently away and saw the Amazon delivery man trying to deliver it on the Ring doorbell. I hope he managed to find a neighbour to take it in, can't wait to get cracking on it.

I can see her family aren't TERFs and "begged her" (according to what I read) not to post dominantly about it on social media and therefore make transphobia her new personality.

It's clear that 'according to what I read' is a tweet on X/Twitter and you haven't read either the excerpt of her essay published in the Times prior to the publication of the book or the actual book itself.

I suspect you have also missed /are resolutely ignoring her reply to the odious 'Pissed off Lawyer' on Twitter also

Again, any thoughts on any of the other essays? Any comments on how the HEAL group were treated? On the text Ash Regan received regarding the three line whip? Any comments on Magi's poem? Or comments on members of the SNP finance committee resigning because they were denied access to the accounts by the NEC?

Article about Joanna Cherry in the Times today with mention of the book:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3567e7d9-6cdb-437c-8499-99bb3bbdbe76?shareToken=a2b1a2ef051587c37f57aaf090844274

You know this ISN'T the JKR the women who wouldn't WHEESHT thread don't you. That's a different thread.

So honestly if all you want to do is slag off one author in over 30 who wrote something for a book why don't you go elsewhere to peddle your I hate JKR crap?

Anyone confused by WaitWhat23‘s* *use of the word “greeting” earlier might be helped by knowing that in Scots it means “crying”.

I’m looking forward to my copy

I can see her family aren't TERFs and "begged her" (according to what I read) not to post dominantly about it on social media and therefore make transphobia her new personality.

You appear to be reading something different than everyone else.

I think you are generous in assuming Christina can read. The posts so far suggest the contrary. Certainly hasn't read the actual text of JKR's essay just disingenuous spin from Pink News and the "pissed off lawyer" who seems unfamiliar with defamation!

Waterstones where I am today has the book in a fairly prominent position on the New In shelves.

It was front page of the Waterstones website today!

Only on page 38 of the book, but already feeling SO much gratitude towards the women of Scotland AND Mumsnet for fighting this fight before I had any awareness of what was happening. You are my heroines! ❤

So glad that everyone is enjoying the book (well, except Christina, but you can't win 'em all). We are so grateful to Susan and Lucy for all their hard work and for assembling such a formidable list of contributors. While we knew a lot of the background, it's so moving to see it all set out.

I'm also, personally, very grateful to Mumsnet. Just in case it's not clear from my first chapter, Trina did first contact me through this site. Mumsnet is part of the FWS family tree and we couldn't have done it without you all. My alter-ego is a bit busy to pop in here often these days, but she is still around and very grateful for providing the oasis of sanity in the days we all thought the rest of the world had gone mad!

Susan, I can't even begin to describe how grateful women in Scotland are to you, MBM and all the women who contributed to the book. The situation here is bad but would have been so much worse if there hadn't been such a determined, dauntless fight for women's rights.

*well, apart from the Christina's and the 'you don't speak for me!!!!' numpties who haven't even read the book

(Edited because the formatting was being weird)

I can see her family aren't TERFs and "begged her" (according to what I read) not to post dominantly about it on social media and therefore make transphobia her new personality.

what is the point in lying when you are so easily caught out?

pathetic

It's on not one but multiple media outlets

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/jk-rowling-says-loved-ones-begged-her-to-keep-trans-views-to-herself/ar-BB1nfYWw

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-twitter-harry-potter-trans-comments-b2553010.html

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/jk-rowlings-family-begged-her-to-shut-up-about-trans-people-but-she-just-had-to-come-out-as-anti-trans/

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/29/jk-rowling-trans-lgbtq-the-women-who-wouldnt-say-wheesht-extract/

Her family did not beg her not to get involved because they thought she was making herself a transphobic personality

they begged her not to get involved because they were worried about her safety

the reasoning is the lie…obviously

Two of the four are the same article.

I am on the Blackwell's mailing list and this morning’s e-mail highlighted “The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht’ as a featured new release.

Thank you Christina for your sterling work bravely fighting for The Right Side of History! Your indefatigable pious fraud is a lesson to all readers on how to Be Righteous.

what is the point in lying when you are so easily caught out?

Not only are they easily caught out, but they have drawn everyone's attention once again to the fact that Rowling has been the subject of repeated threats of violence, some credible enough to warrant a police visit, for speaking out.

So I would say our little transactivist chum has achieved absolutely nothing beyond reminding everyone that transactivist ideology is characterised largely by aggression and hostility to women.

@SusanSmithFWS thank you and all of the other brave and brilliant women of Scotland for all you have done. Here's to you topping those best seller lists for many months to come.

Collected my copy! Dipping in while I'm supposed to be doing other things