Sara Morrison v BFF - thread 6

[SexRealismBeliefs]

Sara Morrison v Belfast Film Festival - Employment Tribunal that took place on 10th to 21st November 2025.

It was live tweeted by Nick Wallis. Tribunal Tweets weren't allowed remote access, and no remote viewing was possible.

Background here:

https://genderblog.net/sara-morrison-v-belfast-film-festival/

Didn't the EJ say she'd need to discuss with the President (or something)?

Place your bets. I'm in for 326 pages and 19 "errors"

I think the only information we had on timing was that it would depend on her workload, and therefore what time the president allowed her for writing, and that it would not be quick.

Rats deserting a sinking ship or strategic changes to minimise liability?

https://x.com/crit_gen/status/2014802452583748008?s=46&t=15ta0xI4N6oJp8Skd1hDvA

Hmm. The 2 main witnesses.

That’s very interesting.

Marie-Therese was on other boards and sensible enough. My guess is that working for free as a Trustee to this mess- she knew she couldn’t be on the board when the hammer falls.

Much more interesting re Dr Laurence McGovern - he was the founding father of the West Belfast Film Festival. His performance was quite pathetic. Sara saying women’s rights organisations shouldn’t be protesting against a Let Women Speak was akin to him advocating to re-arm the IRA and re-start a civil war.

I would be interested in their board governance processes now. Funders really should be looking at them.

Who will get custody of the Bigly Screen??

Cracks are appearing. The tide is turning. The supertanker is ... um...turning as well. Some of the crew are abandoning ship. Genderwoo is wobbling on its pedestal. Metaphors are being mixed. This must be a good omen

Ah, the final omen, The Mixing of the Metaphors!

No one can afford the erections. Everyone is seeking to rid themselves of the BIGLY white elephant 🐘.

Costs of storage.
Costs of erections.
Costs of advertising.
Costs (emotional) of emailing women’s aid groups to LGBT fake BIGLY screen events.

No one can pay the price.

However hounding women out of their jobs for expressing distaste for women’s groups silencing the voices of women. No problem with a pile on.

on X, Nick Wallis is saying no judgement until May / June time? Why so long? I don't get it?

Will there be elections in NI in May?

google says 2027.

The judge did say it would depend on what time the Lady President would allow her. Maybe the Lady President wants to see what happens in the FWS case given that has been argued on rights issues? And then hopes to slip out a judgement that follows that amidst the general hooha that will ensue north of the border?

Just popped by to share this update from Glinner’s substack about the BFF and their programming choices for IWD.

Ooof. Doesn't mince his words. 😳

Doesn't mince his words.

It helps that he's absolutely right.

While we’re all waiting for the outcome of the trial - lovely little tweet from JKR re a recent foray into the Art world where Sara caught up with Ruth McCarthy of Outburst Arts - she of
the concerted letter writing campaign against Sara which was used as ‘evidence’ to investigate her.

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2045920761962016893?s=46&t=iz9YtE7uWBqbuq7l7hKobA

https://jennyeholland.substack.com/p/inside-the-feverish-delusions-of

Lovely piece of writing by Jenny Holland -

She writes so well about how these art outsiders in the trans space are now state funded bullies.

“That is, until they proved themselves not so much arts professionals as apparatchiks in a money laundering system designed to inflate the egos of middle class arts graduates and keep the tax payer (who funds them all) at arms length.”

“How do they keep the tax payer Average Joe at arm’s length? By funding activities that not a single regular person would ever pay to see. For example, one Outburst artist-in-residence focuses on “queer food, foraging, and relationality.” His projects have included “cruising and foraging walks” and “scripted massage performances” [does this mean someone gets a hand job whilst reciting lines, on stage? Ed]; and “the production of hedgerow wines that explore how marginal or liminal spaces can become fertile ground for queer world-making.” He “reclaims the hedgerow as a space of resistance and connection.””

Ouuffff!

For those waiting for the judgment - very unusual that it’s so delayed. In England and Wales tribunal judgments are usually out in three months but no such rule here.

To be honest it feels like a bit of wait and see mixed up with kicking the can down the road. However to be fair to the EJ it was wilder than a Christmas special of Eastenders and plenty to unwind in the telling.

Still the process is the punishment. Sara waits years and years - over three years since she spoke at Let Women Speak Belfast and an entire sector closed to her.

And for all those who want to hear Sara speak about the original Let Women Speak have a gander at her Substack

open.substack.com/pub/sarawildtimmy/p/what-is-it-about-16-april?r=718qgv&utm_medium=ios

In her own words:

It no longer surprises me that there is a fight. What truly angers me is the waiting, the slow, grinding delay that feels calculated to exhaust us into silence.

They assumed that if they made the cost high enough, destroying careers, damaging reputations, dragging women through years of legal battles, we would eventually give up and shut up. But as always, they were wrong.

The women who brought the [FWS] case never stopped. Those who followed them have not stopped either. And the law has now vindicated much of what they were saying from the very beginning.

What is missing now is not clarity. It is decisive action and proper implementation.

maybe the EJ, like everyone else in the UK, is "waiting for the guidance"...