Sian Berry & the attack on FILA conference

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I thought this deserved a thread of its own. It seems women meeting together to discuss feminism and issues affecting them are deliberately provacative.

x.com/sianberry/status/1976671744292438483?s=46

Sian Berry’s victim blaming after the latest trans violence is disgusting

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/750eded022ab8e9b

I was at Filia this year and there was a lot of antisemitism. I saw a Jewish woman being pushed by Pro Palestine activists and one woman was spat at. Many Jewish woman felt unsafe.

That's assault. What did the organisers and security do? Were you able to report it @EllieMary1984 ?

Ah, fair enough. The tweet I saw implied it was an Israel ribbon, and then there was a follow up saying endometriosis awareness was important - so I assumed it was a ribbon for the former at a talk on the latter. But may have misinterpreted either bit.

Found it - it was Heidi Bachram's talk and they were hostage ribbons. The other person's reply about endometriosis seems to have been irrelevant/confused/muddying the waters.

https://x.com/HeidiBachram/status/1977051368956235975?

Oh good. ✊

The meeting called last-minute on the Sunday for Jewish women and their allies was held in a room that took 400 people, and I'd say it was close to full, and included a woman from the FiLiA team and many FiLiA volunteers. It was very moving, and the two (incredibly disrespectful) women who tried to hijack it were marched out by security. There was a mailing list to sign up to, so I'll be keen to see where we go from here.

Oh, and I'm going to email my MP and ask for reassurance that women's groups are welcome in this constituency.

Sian Berry's statement was so very "look at what you made him do". Absolute disgrace.

Yep, I was at both the Sat night fringe ,non FiLiA, session and the Sun lunchtime session at FiLiA.

I'm not Jewish. I'm not Muslim.

I'm not pro Hamas, or pro Zionist.

I stand with Women. Everywhere.

I stand against rape, torture, desecration, murder, bombing the shit out of

Women, Girls and Men, Boys.

By (mainly) Men.

On whichever "side"

And I was appalled at the pro Hamas shit I saw at FiLiA this weekend.

, not my first time, it's my 5th time,but after this weekend I'm not sure I'm giving them any more of my money or that I'll be attending, again.

I thought I'd seen all types of politicians' antics, but Berry's response here is genuinely shocking.

Surprisingly there was a letter in today's Metro from an attendee describing the masked vandals. No doubt tomorrow they'll print one of these vulnerable minoritised types explaining that they had to do it because women's rights are "provocative".

Two articles about this in the local rag, neither supporting Sian, sorry for the photos also no online versions of the story!

Thank you for those articles @SingleSexSpacesInSchools There must be some reasonable people in Brighton who are appalled by what happened last weekend. It’s crazy that in 2025 a newspaper article needs to be written with the title Women have every right to meet in safety.

Sorry they aren’t in higher definition! Yesterdays Argus I think