Newnham College Cambridge restricts women’s fellowships …

[SabrinaThwaite]

… to actual women.

newn.cam.ac.uk/research/research-fellowships

There’s proper full on meltdowns going on:

The decision by Newnham College to bar trans people from applying for the Research Fellowship for outstanding female researchers early in their careers constitutes a blatantly discriminatory act of prejudice and intellectual cowardice.

https://feministgenderequality.network/fgen-statement-on-newnham-college-transphobic-fellowship-announcement/

Exactly. A landline in your room was a privilege, and all our organisation re Reclaim the Streets events was done by phone box like pound shop spies.

Social media would have been a minefield on many levels.

Were pronouns being demanded such a big thing then?

Or was he seen as just another eccentric academic?

@SabrinaThwaite Absolutely. Another mostly harmless eccentric in a place stuffed full with them. Pronoun demands were definitely were not a thing back then either.

Could you write to them to back them up?

If bandwidth allows i will.

That’s nice. I did not go there myself, but would write if I had. It seems there are quite a few on this thread who went there. No doubt the college would welcome the feeling of support.

I'll email, they send me enough after all!

I agree. (It is just bad timing, my DM is in hospital....)

This is good to see. I've been gently encouraging DD to apply to Newnham.