Amazing speaker on Emily Wilding Davison at Let Women Speak

[YellowAsteroid]

I'm watching the vid from Sunday's Let Women Speak, and the first speaker is a-may-zing! She's telling the story of Emily Wilding Davison. I'm nodding along and crying - she is so articulate and such a good story teller.

Does anyone know her? Please pass on my huge compliments to her - clear, courageous, and such a good speech. Inspirational. 💜

PS. Oh, and I know there's another thread on Sunday's LWS, but it's devolved into a debate over KJK's views. I wanted to focus on the first speaker at Let Women Speak. It's really worth watching.

Could you share a link OP?

PS. Oh, and I know there's another thread on Sunday's LWS, but it's devolved into a debate over KJK's views. I wanted to focus on the first speaker at Let Women Speak. It's really worth watching

yes its a shame these threads get derailed by people having a go, would be nice to hear more about the event

Yes I watched her, the speech was so interesting and I don't know how I never knew that EWD was trying to place the scarf around the neck of the horse, not just running in front of it! That changes the story.
The speaker also helped to welcome everyone and introduce us to Morpeth.

Oh sorry yes, here's the linkydink to YouTube.

And @RufustheFactuaIReindeer I don't mind the thread discussing other things - maybe I shouldn't have said "devolving" - it's a great thread with some cut out & keep posts.

But I wanted other women to hear this extraordinary speaker!

Brilliant thank you.

I don't suppose the speaker is Margaret Scott who wrote a local history of Davison? (I can't quite see.)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emilys-Longhorsley-Davisons-connections-Northumberland/dp/1916417906

@YellowAsteroid

Thank you for posting that. She was great, and brave - she seemed nervous. Also it must be difficult to talk at the same time as hearing all that noise.

It's a very good example to show people - a woman just speaking about feminist history but being yelled at and over by a load of men's voices. By the time she gets to the end about what women are facing today, the men are simply proving her point for her.

Thanks for that, she was great. And spot-on, of course.

It is Stella! 💚💟💜

Heard but not seen here, second voice, as we were feeding Molly a Puppuchino when we were leafleting for the Party of Women in Newcastle.

https://x.com/POWLizPanton/status/1833276884735418833

And I don't mind the thread discussing other things

no, no one minds it evolving, but it always evolves into what an awful person KJK is rather than how great the women speaking are 🙂

Clare Balding did a good documentary on this, on the 100th anniversary of the race I think. A return ticket to Epsom was in her pocket suggesting she wasn't suicidal.

Thanks for the reminder that I really should make the effort to go to a LWS. I'll try to remember not to invade Poland on my way home.

It made the (very) local news, very positive too!

This is from a Facebook page called Morpeth news TV. It's a really long segment!

www.facebook.com/share/v/p8MhmmAYzDqsjQLT/?mibextid=UalRPS

Thank you all, Stella xx

A sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone for your wonderful and completely incredulous compliments (I could not believe it was me you were referring to when they were shown to me). You were right, it was incredibly nerve wracking and I know this comes across. I was very pleased to have been able to get to the end without breaking down in tears. Your support is truly appreciated, I joined MumsNet in order to convey this. Thank you, Stella

Thank you, Stella ( @AlphaLibrae ) Your speech was so clear and to the point. It was wonderful!

Yes thank you @AlphaLibrae as a fellow ex-pat Morpethian I just wanted to say that was a great speech

I've just listened. Thank you, OP, that was worth listening to. I've known about Emily Davidson since I had a tour of the House of Commons with a very young, very new MP called Jeremy Corbyn back in the 1980s and he showed us the cupboard where she spent the night before the 1911 census so that she could give the Houses of Parliament as her place of residence.

The woman spoke very well, despite looking nervous. You could hear the chanting men in the background, something about trans liberation. I know a lot of people disapprove of KJK, but whatever you think about her and her politics, there's something very moving about watching nervous women, their voices and hands shaking, being handed a mic and invited to speak out, often against a background of angry men's voices. I think Kellie Jay deserves enormous credit for that.

Exactly that. The whole point of LWS is that it's so Ronseal.

Thank you once more, Yellow Asteroid, I am completely bowled over and may even speak again! Hopefully with more confidence. I love that we both have cosmic names xxx

Thank you very much indeed Rousednotsilent, it was funny being back in Morpeth again having spent most of my adult life away from the place. I love your name and wondered if it was reference to the Emmeline Pankhurst quote I read out at the end. Regards, Stella

News article about the documentary Beowulfa mentioned - the jockey who was riding Anmer that day did eventually die by suicide: he never got over what happened, not that he was in any position to help, he was thrown off & sustained a concussion. The fact of his being haunted by her face suggests she must have looked shocked/scared as things went wrong in that brief time before he was thrown off. It’s not unlike train drivers (understandably!) struggling to cope with people going under their trains, I suppose?

If anyone’s interested in the police reports etc, The National Archives has some of them available here.

(Apologies to AlphaLibrae, will try to watch your speech when my brain is willing to process video: am sure it was excellent!)

Yes, I couldn't resist x

Fantastic article about the event by local feminist Becks Rose, who I've had the pleasure to meet in the past.

I'm very pleased that it's been published in this local news outlet. (Followed by local MP Catherine McKinnel on Twitter I note.)

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion/why-do-we-still-need-to-let-women-speak/

North East Bylines has censored the article by Becks about LWS Morpeth and in the sneakiest way possible! Rather than put up a “Page Not Found” message they have redirected the URL to a March 2022 article about IWD!!

x.com/POWLizPanton/status/1850555691561328729

and

https://x.com/lwsnortheast/status/1850513297465884938?s=46

More info about Becks' article here plus images of the deleted article in the post below it:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5179053-let-women-speak-morpeth-northumberland-sun-13-oct?reply=139348274