Woman's Place UK

 

9 June 2021

 

Woman's Place UK

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Over 5,000 views of this account by Ann Henderson of her time as Rector of the University of Edinburgh.During her three-year tenure Ann was repeatedly subjected to unfounded allegations by students, student newspapers and student societies. ...

June 9th @ 1:33 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: When @essexuniversity cancelled an event on sex and gender identity it commissioned an independent legal review resulting in an apology and plan of action to address the issues. When @EdinburghUni cancelled an event... nothing. ...

June 9th @ 1:29 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Check out the accounts here from @EdinburghUni. Says one staff member: "I don't know if senior management have any idea of the scale of censorship feminists are subject to on a daily basis at this university. It is suffocating." ...

June 9th @ 1:29 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Shame also on management at @EdinburghUni. They have a great statement on freedom of expression on their website, but apparently zero commitment to upholding it. It's not enough to say that you value respectful debate. You need to ...

June 9th @ 1:28 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Horrific that the branch would even consider emailing this petition to its members for their support. It states as fact, "university rector Ann Henderson retweeted transphobic comments on Twitter". An unfounded and damaging slur. ...

June 9th @ 1:28 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Shame on @ucuedinburgh for their part. Not only did they fail to stand up for Ann, they refused to work constructively with her for the remainder of her term as Rector, effectively preventing her from achieving workplace improvements ...

June 9th @ 1:28 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: We stand in solidarity with @ScottishLabour activist and campaigner @AnnDHenderson as she speaks out about her time as Rector of @EdinburghUni. Her thoughtcrime was retweeting an invitation to a @Womans_Place_UK meeting on women's ...

June 9th @ 1:28 pm |

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Great stand here by @ucl on academic freedom “Dr Spence said nobody has been “cancelled” at UCL, and he is proud that the Student Union has held debates on Israel Palestine with both Zionist and anti-Zionist speakers.“ /1 https://t.co/ezRWAZ...

June 9th @ 11:40 am |

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RT @lnmackenzie1: It was this attack on Ann in autumn 2018 that provoked me into being more vocal on this issue. Ann has devoted her life to advancing equality and women's rights and she has been treated shamefully by Edinburgh University, whose ...

June 9th @ 11:09 am |

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Yayoi Kusama (1929-) Japanese. Sculptor, installation & performance artist. Trained in the nihonga painting style, she left Japan; joined the New York avant-garde, and was part of the 1960s counterculture & pop art movement. Her installations are ...

June 9th @ 8:15 am |

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Yayoi Kusama (1929-) Japanese. Sculptor, installation & performance artist. Trained in the nihonga painting style, she left Japan; joined the New York avant-garde, and was part of the 1960s counterculture & pop art movement. Her installations ...

June 9th @ 8:15 am |

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RT @ClaireShrugged: .@AnnDHenderson was the second woman to hold the position of @EdinburghUni rector in 159 years. No wonder women are so underrepresented, given the campaign of harassment & abuse she was subject to; and how the institution ...

June 9th @ 6:06 am |

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RT @ClaireShrugged: I was one of the speakers at the panel @AnnDHenderson mentioned, where @bindelj was attacked. Afterwards @TheStudentPaper newspaper published an article defaming all 5 speakers, as well as reframing the victim of that crime as the ...

June 9th @ 6:01 am |

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RT @SarahPedersen2: Words fail me reading @AnnDHenderson account of her time as Rector. As one of the speakers at the event on women’s sex-based rights I can confirm the heavy security presence on the day, which was frightening to experience ...

June 9th @ 6:01 am |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Socialist feminist & former @UKLabour NEC Equalities Chair, Ann Henderson writes of her experience as elected Rector of Edinburgh University “Much of my energy was consumed with unfounded allegations of ‘transphobia’. There has ...

June 9th @ 2:28 am |

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Ann Henderson speaks out on her treatment by Edinburgh University after she came under attack from students for her social media activity https://t.co/sjxCyX... Today we publilsh the full account /1 ...

June 9th @ 1:54 am |