Forwomen.scot

 

8 March 2022

 

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @cdfimages: Standing silent as darkness falls on International Women's Day, @ForwomenScot commemorate those fallen sisters who went before us on the closing hours on International Women's Day. #ScottishWitches #WomenWontWheesht @Alamy_Editorial ...

March 8th @ 4:24 pm |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @AJRichardsonMP: A huge thank you to JK Rowling for being such a beacon of strength and a Twitter dynamo. My colleagues and I were debating this privately for many months before we had the courage to speak out publicly with genuine fear of ...

March 8th @ 4:20 pm |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @JohannLamont: There are 365 days in the year. But, even on International Womenโ€™s Day, it turns out there is plenty of space for men breezily lecturing women about how men think women should celebrate the day marked out for celebrating women. ...

March 8th @ 4:17 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @adhib: In sum, then ... do not let them play their shell games with petty details of what a GRA does and does not entitle a person to do. The point is DEMEDICALISATION. Shona Robison knows this - it's the word she uses as shorthand for the reform ...

March 8th @ 11:53 am |

Forwomen.scot

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"Instead of allowing the audience to celebrate women filmmakers, IWD is becoming an exercise in destroying the concept of women and supplanting female filmmakers with male directors and male protagonists." #IWD2022 #WomenWontWheesht ...

March 8th @ 7:38 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

This is true. There's a marked difference on the tag. Unpaid careers doing physically & mentally exhausting work, while some professional women are posting about their paid jobs, making tea & even taking a shower as though, by rights, they ...

March 8th @ 7:26 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

"Nicola Sturgeon, who identifies as a feminist, is pushing through a law that will affect the most vulnerable of women: those in prison and those rape victims who might not want to be around women with intact male genitalia." @suzanne_moore brilliant ...

March 8th @ 7:08 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

Please join us tonight to mark #IWD2022 at the Witches' Well on Castle Esplanade at 7pm Bring your daughters! We'll be heading for a drink afterwards. #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/OaH1BR...

March 8th @ 6:47 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @LucyHunterB: Suggested follow - @PayGapApp. Bio: "Employers, if you tweet about International Women's Day, I'll retweet your gender pay gap". And it is doing so. AFAI can see so far: no gap = 1, a fish farming company; largest gaps = 3 ...

March 8th @ 5:59 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @Obsolesence: Dear god, Labour Equalities Shadow Minster, Annalise Dodds, has just said she is not sure how adult and female is defined in answer to "how do you define a woman?" on @BBCWomansHour #IWD2022

March 8th @ 5:56 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

Really embarrassing from @AnnelieseDodds on the definition of women. Apparently "it depends" and Labour don't have a definition. Thank you @Emmabarnett for pressing on this. If you can't define something, you can't protect it in law. ...

March 8th @ 5:50 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @jk_rowling: โ€œFeminism is the radical notion that women are human beingsโ€ โ€” Cheris Kramarae โ€œKeep each other safe. Keep faith.โ€ โ€” me Happy #InternationalWomen... ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ ...

March 8th @ 5:47 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

Moving goalposts. We keep being told it shouldn't be medicalised, that not all people have dysphoria and it isn't a medical condition. They really need to make their minds up! https://t.co/5uVxGK...

March 8th @ 5:06 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

Where to begin? Some nonsense for #IWD2022 Mhairi's scenario: woman complains of male in changing room. He makes a fuss, claiming he's trans. In most cases, that would be that. Glasgow Life, for example, would tell the woman she's in the wrong & ...

March 8th @ 4:21 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @CallieMac88: On #IWD2022 I salute these fantastic women who gave selflessly their time, energy & creativity in organising the hugely successful Womenโ€™s Festival in Alloa on Sat. #MakingWorkVisible ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’œ https://t.co/fkTPVi...

March 8th @ 3:47 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @LucyHunterB: On #IWD I wish @scotgov was #MakingWorkVisible for thousands of women who responded to its last consultation on GRA reform. Many spent unpaid hours writing detailed, sometimes personal, submissions. But their work remains invisible, ...

March 8th @ 3:47 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

RT @joannaccherry: Itโ€™s #InternationalWomen... Thank you to Sole Sisters @VoteWithOurFeet for including me in your @Daily_Record celebration alongside @jk_rowling @JohannLamont & @JoanMcAlpine. #IWD2022 #MakingWorkVisible #WomenWontWheesht ...

March 8th @ 3:46 am |

Forwomen.scot

38 posts today

Good morning to all on #IWD2022, especially our sisters @VoteWithOurFeet and the amazing women they celebrate here @jk_rowling @JohannLamont @joannaccherry @JoanMcAlpine #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/4SYnBd...

March 8th @ 3:40 am |