Woman's Place UK

 

3 November 2021

 

Woman's Place UK

44 posts today

RT @kevin_ovenden: Informative and moving. Who the hell would picket a meeting that contained this? Anyway - put those chumps to one side. The government and politicians ought to come under greater pressure to stop the scandal of women being ...

November 3rd @ 6:17 pm |

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RT @SarahPedersen2: @Womans_Place_UK Killer line of this excellent piece for me is 'To tell the Savile story, the BBC had been looking for a case of contemporary institutional failure. By not running it, they had created one.'

November 3rd @ 6:16 pm |

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RT @ShonaghDillon: @Mocha_Soul @MayorofLondon @polblonde @K_IngalaSmith @metpoliceuk Still no response to my open letter either? And as far as I know none to @Womans_Place_UK letter signed by thousands either? https://t.co/zHz40J...

November 3rd @ 6:15 pm |

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RT @Pomegranate2021: Full Woman’s Hour @Docstockk interview: “The mechanism is social ostracism. I’d been at Sussex for 18 years. It was my first permanent job. It felt like home… You’re being ejected from the tribe, aren’t you? That’s the whole ...

November 3rd @ 4:25 pm |

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RT @uracontra_: Listening to @Docstockk on Woman's Hour. Absolutely disgraceful, reprehensible treatment of her by some students and colleagues. These people should be utterly ashamed. Vile, threatening, and misogynistic behaviour.

November 3rd @ 4:24 pm |

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RT @cathydevine56: I so admire Kathleen Stock. How she's been hounded from her job for knowing humans are sexually dimorphic, and sex is immutable and matters in relation to women's rights, is utterly beyond me. The moral bankruptcy that facilities ...

November 3rd @ 4:24 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Solidarity to any remaining feminists in the @EdinburghUcu branch - if any remain. Hard to see how they can be confident their branch has their back when their branch president indulges in these unsubstantiated hyperbolic nonsense ...

November 3rd @ 4:22 pm |

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RT @msjlindsay: When the 'consequences' of speaking or writing (very thoughtfully in KS's case) on ANY contested issue is this disproportionate then freedom of thought & expression cease to exist. Solidarity with @Docstockk, whose treatment has ...

November 3rd @ 4:22 pm |

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RT @lwhb__: "This is like some sort of medieval experience" Heartbreaking words from Kathleen Stock Decent people need to get off the fence and call this what it is: This wasn't peaceful protest; this was workplace bullying and harassment of a woman ...

November 3rd @ 4:22 pm |

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We are extremely proud to have hosted @Docstockk at our 2018 meeting in Brighton (A Woman's Place is turning the tide) when she was already facing harassment and intimidation in academia. https://t.co/dm73m2... #IStandWithKathleen... 1/2 ...

November 3rd @ 4:10 pm |

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RT @PoliceMeToo: Sinead McGrotty, a Police Service of Northern Ireland staff member, said she was let down after making allegations of sexual assault against a serving officer. He remains a serving police officer. https://t.co/Yy75W1...

November 3rd @ 3:36 pm |

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RT @LittleHardman: "Like some sort of medieval experience". Thank you @BBCWomansHour for covering the witch hunt of @Docstockk. And thank you to the very many people who have sent emails, cards and gifts for her. https://t.co/XuJze6...

November 3rd @ 2:42 pm |

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RT @kevin_ovenden: Those who have supported this appalling bullying should be ashamed. That some on the left are now generalising from it and theorising about how to drive out more women from their jobs is nauseating. Back to solidarity, real trade ...

November 3rd @ 2:42 pm |

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RT @HadleyFreeman: Shame on anyone who has validated this behaviour, encouraged it or just stayed silent, insisting it’s just a niche issue, a silly ladies’ argument, these angry women probably brought it on themselves. This is misogyny and THIS is ...

November 3rd @ 2:41 pm |

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RT @polblonde: Just heard @MayorofLondon talking about VAWG on @BBCr4today. It’s over a year since @K_IngalaSmith & I asked him whether he supports single-sex exemption in the 2010 Equality Act which is vital to vulnerable women & ...

November 3rd @ 2:37 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: @BBCWomansHour @Docstockk @Emmabarnett Incredibly moving interview. As @UKLabour supporters, we call on Shadow ministers .@AnnelieseDodds & .@TaiwoOwatemi to listen & withdraw Taiwo's hasty & ill-informed comments. ...

November 3rd @ 2:33 pm |

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“Campaigners have claimed that the policy of allowing prisoners to self-identify without the need for a Gender Recognition Certificate is not legal and is traumatising for vulnerable female prisoners…” https://t.co/kkMctZ...

November 3rd @ 2:29 pm |

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal /Kath Ruska Walker (1920-1993) Australian. Trailblazing Aboriginal poet; renowned campaigner for Aboriginal rights and cultural survival. Educator and environmentalist. Gained a reputation as a protest poet with her hugely ...

November 3rd @ 8:22 am |

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal /Kath Ruska Walker (1920-1993) Australian. Trailblazing Aboriginal poet; renowned campaigner for Aboriginal rights and cultural survival. Educator and environmentalist. Gained a reputation as a protest poet with her hugely ...

November 3rd @ 8:21 am |

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“Within a few weeks of Savile’s death, MacKean had collected on-the-record testimony from 10 women… It had been difficult to convince them to go public… they worried they would be seen as complicit…sure they wouldn’t be believed.” ...

November 3rd @ 3:33 am |