We cannot fight for #womensliberation and the end of #maleviolenceagains... alone. We are extremely grateful for all the support we've received today and in the past few days - having you all join us, speaking in support, and writing into the ...
RT @TomCityNews: City of Vancouver to vote shortly on whether to allocate funds for @VanRapeRelief. Last year the City said they would cut funding over issues on how inclusive the group is. 41 speakers turned up to talk on this divisive issue. More ...
We are waiting now for the councillors @vancityconcil to come back from the break to deliberate and make their decision. We are so grateful for all the people who were able to come today. @VanCityCouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr ...
Tannis Larsen: The city wants to make it harder for #women to gather by withholding funds if they don't agree to change the way they organize. Nothing is being added to #yvr by this coercive move, but something immensely valuable is being forced out ...
Danielle Cormier: “We can meet the needs of #women and trans women. One does not have to come at the expense of the other. I was best served by an organization that prioritized my experiences.” #radfem #raperelief @vancitycouncil #yvr ...
“A safe space for me and countless other women is a #womenonly space organized from #feminist principles, a space that’s offered by and for women who are born female” @lizasaa #raperelief #radfem
Linda Shuto (former teacher and BCTF): "#WomenOnlySpace is not a challenge or a threat to transwomen. It is a model for the liberation of born women." #vancitycouncil #raperelief #radfem #yvr https://t.co/lSX70M...
.@kylefarq “By suspending funding to @VanRapeRelief , the council has achieved the opposite of what they intended to do: fight discrimination. This discrimination is against female-born people who have endured the trauma of male violence." #womenonly ...
.@Lizasaa "The abuse I endured wasn't because I identified as a girl, it was because I was a girl." @VanCityCouncil #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #yvr https://t.co/I5nrmO...
.@gavinaword: We must allow people to seek liberation on their own terms - helping them when we can! - but not making that help contingent on them following our lead, however good our intentions are from the outside of that struggle. #vancitycouncil ...
.@VanCityClerk The City Councillors have been asking questions about us and the work we do to every speaker but US. We can answer all their questions. #where #is #the #democracy #vancitycouncil
.@GC_Allison "If a charitable organization that is not operated for profit has as a primary purpose of the promotion of the interests and welfare of an identifiable group or class of persons of a common sex …”(2/3)
.@GC_Allison “...that organization or corporation must not be considered to be contravening this Code because it is granting a preference to members of the identifiable group or class of persons.” (3/3) #womenonlyspace #raperelief #radfem #vancouver
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Listen to the voices of the women who came to the Fighting the New Misogyny event in Seattle on February 1st! Marcia Matthews, Holly Hart, Jennifer Murnan, Julia Beck and more! https://t.co/C8UXS4...
[USA] "The conviction is less a signal that the criminal justice system can work for victims than a signal that women’s grassroots organizing can accomplish things that would never have otherwise been possible." https://t.co/9LCCGL...
What are feminists doing to organise for International Women's Day on 8 March? We know women in Brisbane Australia are hosting a conference and a rally, are there other events to defend women's and girls' sex based rights? Tell us about them. Article ...