RT @jessphillips: This week Northern Echo, the Guardian/observer and the Sunday Times have all featured these images. This was unimaginable just two years ago and I cannot express enough how without Karen at @CountDeadWomen this would never have ...
RT @MerchedCymru: We'll have more to say on the @WelshGovernment draft LGBTQ+ Action Plan shortly. You can take a look at the consultation here: https://t.co/8q7Lcv... & read some of our guest & member blogs responding to various aspects of ...
RT @rebelyarns: Gutted that I can't be there in person for this event. I'll be impatiently waiting for the recordings. Thanks and congratulations to @Womans_Place_UK and @CrimeandJustice for putting together such an impressive and knowledgeable ...
The 81 women killed in 28 weeks
RT @sianwilliams100: Tonight - a letter from our daughter's school asking her to show 'extra vigilance' because a man has approached children, blocked their path and asked them to come home with him. More than once. She is 12. And vigilant. YOU make ...
“It is a folly if we set an ambition to end men’s violence against women and girls if we cannot name women as disproportionally the victims and men as overwhelmingly the perpetrators of sexual and domestic violence and abuse.” @K_IngalaSmith ...
RT @MerchedCymru: Powerful article for @LesbianGayNews by the Chair of our Sex, Sexuality and Reality webinar this morning @LGBAllies_Cymru's Sarah Tanburn. #CanThePlan #WomenWontWheesht #NiFyddMenywodYnDdi... @JaneHutt @hannahblythyn @fmwales ...
The 79 women killed in the UK since Sarah Everard’s murder
Breaking up the boys’ club: how sexism still damages the police
RT @JoPhoenix1: I would encourage everyone who *can* make it to make it. The event will be a very important one. Women's prisons are not the place to play out a political conflict that has nothing to do with changing the appalling social conditions ...
We need a complete overhaul of the criminal justice system. Come to our public meeting in central London where we will be discussing what we need to do to win change. https://t.co/QObDDk...
RT @ClareCAIS: For anyone interested in the bizarre claims of intersex academia #PCOS is the most common intersex condition #polycysticovarysyn... #intersex closely followed by unknown & ‘feels’ like they have an intersex brain. The results are ...
80% of women have been sentenced for a non-violent offence. 70% women in prison are survivors of domestic abuse. 90% of children of imprisoned mothers have to leave home as a result. Come to our next public event to hear discuss how we win change. ht ...
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The police don’t keep women safe
Recent research by Glasgow University found that 80% of women prisoners have had a serious head injury; 89% of those had sustained the injury as a result of domestic violence. A Woman's Place is NOT in prison Wednesday 27th October ...
Yvonne Oddon (1902-1982) French. Librarian. Introduced modern classification methods to the Musée de l'Homme. WW2; joined the Resistance. Imprisoned for helping prisoners and aviators escape. Post war, organised international conferences and the ...
Yvonne Oddon (1902-1982) French. Librarian. Introduced modern classification methods to the Musée de l'Homme. WW2; joined the Resistance. Imprisoned for helping prisoners and aviators escape. Post war, organised international conferences and the ...
Women from an ethnic minority group more likely to be in prison (18% vs. 14% in general population) with Black women particularly overrepresented (9% in prison vs. 3% in general population). https://t.co/QObDDk...
RT @CrimeandJustice: Seems only right to re-up this. We're really glad to be able to help run & promote this event with @Womans_Place_UK Focusing on the criminalisation & imprisonment of women isn't problematic, it's necessary. Everyone is ...
RT @LabWomenDec: Well said @mara_yamauchi (from 1:08). "I think there is a definite conflict of rights between the rights of females and transwomen on safe, single-sex spaces." On why we need to resolve the conflict of rights and keep both women and ...
RT @yrhenwrach: Feel courageous, feel proud, we are winning this war says Bev. Chair advises contacting your 5 members of the Senedd, if you're in Wales. Contact the ministers too. Respond to the consultation (even if not in Wales) tell them to ...
RT @Mocha_Soul: Murray authored a legal memorandum in what would be a successful effort to add “sex” as a protected class in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. https://t.co/d5x8Lh...
Women prisoners are more likely to report mental health problems, physical disability, having drug & alcohol problems, money worries & housing worries. Twice as many women as men self-harm. A Woman's Place is NOT in prison Weds 27th October ...
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Give boys lessons to stop them becoming misogynists, say teachers after Sarah Everard case
Met officers investigated over Couzens WhatsApp group are still on duty
RT @centreWJ: Other forces have suspended the men involved - but the Met? No, still on duty. How are we meant to believe they take male violence against women seriously? https://t.co/TOrgFG...
RT @LabWomenDec: So excited to be in this @MerchedCymru @ALLIANCELGB @LGBAllies_Cymru webinar! #CanThePlan #DimDiolch https://t.co/XGEoUZ...
RT @OnTheWomanQ: Absolutely wonderful to hear that the British Pregnancy Advisory Service are placing the reproductive needs of women above political agendas. They are refusing to erase the word ‘woman’ when so many others have. Thank you to ...
RT @MerchedCymru: Lack of support for detransitioners is appalling. Affirmation-only is dangerous. The pain caused to many daughters & sisters in a mistaken attempt to be kind is unbelievable. Please listen @Eluned_Morgan @JaneHutt #CanThePlan ...
RT @RadFemsCardiff: @life_explored @MerchedCymru @WelshGovernment @sportwales Will be interesting to see how @WelshGovernment plan to reconcile the conflicts that will exist if they fail to #cantheplan As is patently obvious #sexmatters
RT @MerchedCymru: Political language obscures purpose. Definitions in the Stonewall glossary - the catechism of gender identity - are often circular and contested. #CanThePlan ...
Senior female officer wants ‘zero tolerance’ on sexist police banter
- 80% of women in prison have been sentenced for a non-violent offence. - 70% women in prison are survivors of domestic abuse. Come to this public meeting on Weds 27th October in central London. Be part the campaign to win change. Tickets in link. h ...
'Degrading strip search left me with PTSD'
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RT @yrhenwrach: Merched Cymru/LGB Alliance Cymru's webinar has just started. Chair, Sarah Tanburn says this week has proven that 'no debate is over' but we're still being ignored in Wales and GC voices not included @fmwales #CanThePlan #SexNotGender ...
We are so looking forward to this. #FiLiA2021 https://t.co/MecZEg...
RT @JulietBravo007: @Womans_Place_UK @francescrook @JoPhoenix1 @BluskyeAllison @LucyBaldwin08 @RosieDuffield1 @francesbarber13 @Mocha_Soul @CrimeandJustice Booked. It’s the only thing I’d consider missing Corrie for ! 😉😚
What a line-up! A Woman's Place is NOT in prison... @francescrook @JoPhoenix1 @BluskyeAllison @LucyBaldwin08 @RosieDuffield1 @francesbarber13 plus @Mocha_Soul for WPUK and Charlie Weinberg for @CrimeandJustice https://t.co/QObDDk...
RT @LucyBaldwin08: Looking forward to this event - come and join us ! https://t.co/15KDdY...
RT @Ladybird2006: Booked! 😍💚🤍💜❤️ https://t.co/FpEtLD...
RT @JoPhoenix1: Oh. My. Word. I’m deeply deeply honoured to share a platform with these women. https://t.co/pxVOxf...
RT @NickBryantNY: When will this end? Eighty women in the UK have allegedly been killed at the hands of men since the murder of Sarah Everard. Eighty. Media needs to follow the lead of The Northern Echo and focus more on male violence against women. ...
RT @lnmackenzie1: An incredible line-up of speakers. Book now to avoid disappointment. https://t.co/s1RceU...
RT @lnmackenzie1: What sort of dystopian horror is this? If you are dubious about the actions of a police officer, you should call one his colleagues for reassurance. https://t.co/icI7va...
RT @TheEconomist: "Bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" are strange ways to refer to half of humanity https://t.co/ENNTCZ...
RT @norman_nicki: Retracting and apologies make absolutely no difference now. You have exposed your misogyny and victim blaming views. You can’t retract that now. We see you and we see the problem https://t.co/g0RZjL...
RT @CforWomenUK: This is very good news; @Conservatives now have a place to go for some sensible dialogue with some grownups. Along with the event hosted by @Baroness_Nichol this is shaping up to be a brilliant conference! #SexMatters #WomenMatter ...
RT @sharrond62: This is very good, and fair news, based on the science & truth. New guidelines for transgender participation unveiled by UK sports councils https://t.co/mqvgq4...
RT @sophie_r_allen: So @thebkc are going to disregard the safety of female participants for the sake of inclusion, with potentially deadly consequences. It would not be discriminatory to distinguish competitors by sex rather than gender. ...
RT @HWistrich: “This excoriating judgement on undercover policing could not have come at a more significant moment - What is it going to take to transform the culture of policing so that resources are used to protect women from abuse from violence, ...
“Beneath “stick to well-lit streets” and “wear flat shoes you can run in”; after “text your taxi’s number plate to a friend” and “clutch keys in your fist like a claw” came new guidance: “Don’t trust a policeman working alone.” https://t.co/o4rGX2...
Text “Women woke to find a new item on our stay-safe list. Beneath “stick to well-lit streets” and “wear flat shoes you can run in”; after “text your taxi’s number plate to a friend” and “clutch keys in your fist like a claw” came new guidance: ...
RT @BameFor: At the heart of @metpoliceuk sits a festering, toxic culture of patriarchy and racism. Two sides of the same coin. Where you get one, you inevitability get the other. This rancid canteen culture comes from the top. #SarahReed ...