Woman's Place UK

 

20 August 2021

 

Woman's Place UK

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OUR NEXT EVENT: We will be hosting this webinar to help launch Feminism for Women by @bindelj who will be in conversation with @ClaireShrugged on Friday 3rd September. Register here https://t.co/9EnilJ...

August 20th @ 2:46 pm |

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"Joan is a peerless expert in this field. You’ve made a huge mistake here: reinstate her immediately. The women of London are watching." Watching and signing this letter... https://t.co/KQsi9S... #IStandWithJoanSmit...

August 20th @ 2:43 pm |

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Thank you to those of you who have left a comment on our open letter. They brilliantly express the strength of feeling women have about being shut down and shut out of decision and policy making. https://t.co/KQsi9S... #IStandWithJoanSmit...

August 20th @ 2:30 pm |

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RT @legalfeminist: Please RT, especially under real name accounts if you are able to. Professionals must not be disciplined for saying that facts matter, evidence matters, sex matters. Calling social workers, teachers, medical professionals, ...

August 20th @ 2:00 pm |

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For the weekend crowd…Almost 3,500 signatures on this letter to @MayorofLondon protesting the dismissal of @polblonde and calling for her reinstatement. Please sign if you haven’t already https://t.co/KQsi9S...

August 20th @ 1:56 pm |

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We have held two webinars on the issue of violence against women and girls. Here is the first one from 17th September last year with Joan Smith aka @polblonde @K_IngalaSmith Pragna Patel @SBSisters and @afsanalachaux https://t.co/uwwsgV...

August 20th @ 12:25 pm |

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"Her views are entirely legal and in line with the single-sex exceptions in the Equality Act: these need to be properly explored, addressed and resolved in the context of women's refuges. Please re-instate Joan and undertake this work." ...

August 20th @ 12:21 pm |

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RT @MaternityAction: Gerry Hickey, senior project officer for the Migrant Women’s Rights Service, talks about working with #feminist & #migrant organisations & her work at Maternity Action. Read it here ▶️ https://t.co/QImrJF... #migrantwomen ...

August 20th @ 10:45 am |

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RT @ShahrarAli: In politics as in life let's call a thing by its proper name. Sex-based rights exist. A right not to be discriminated against, say, on basis of protected characteristic of sex. Not a difficult concept. Attempts to argue otherwise are ...

August 20th @ 10:44 am |

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RT @LabWomenDec: so that it can't be claimed you were unaware of our safeguarding concerns. As @LordPhilofBrum warned in July 2020 'When the eventual public enquiry happens, as inevitably it will, there will be many orgs & leaders who will have ...

August 20th @ 9:57 am |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Joan Smith @polblonde received no answers to her letters to @MayorofLondon, despite being Chair of his VAWG Board Nor have scores of LWD supporting @UKLabour elected CLP officers & Cllrs. "We have today decided to publish our ...

August 20th @ 9:57 am |

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RT @Jackieme2009: Excellent thread by a lecturer in Social Work. All of us who work in the public sector should be fighting back against the sanctioning of colleagues for participation in perfectly legal political processes. https://t.co/VcBkY5...

August 20th @ 7:50 am |

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"Joan Smith's desire to maintain single sex spaces for women who have suffered assault is in line with the EA 2010, and her efforts on behalf of women have been honourable and consistent. She should be respected and reinstated." ...

August 20th @ 7:22 am |

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Dr Ruth Smith Lloyd (1917-1995) African- American. Scientist. She earned her PhD in anatomy in 1941, and went on to teach at Howard University. Her research focused on endocrinology, genetics, fertility, the relationship of sex hormones to growth, ...

August 20th @ 7:20 am |

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Dr Ruth Smith Lloyd (1917-1995) African-American. Scientist. She earned her PhD in anatomy in 1941, and went on to teach at Howard University. Her research focused on endocrinology, genetics, fertility, the relationship of sex hormones to growth, and ...

August 20th @ 7:20 am |

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RT @ShonaghDillon: An open letter to @SadiqKhan Re: the dismissal of @polblonde “I think it is important that Joan’s concerns are not dismissed, and I also want to ensure the same frontline organisations who asked Joan to intervene on their behalf ...

August 20th @ 7:12 am |

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“Ms Smith said she had raised concerns about refuges on behalf of charities funded by the mayor's Un office and that she had not been consulted about the loss of her role.” Our open letter referenced here - link to sign in next tweet ...

August 20th @ 6:38 am |

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"I am a LP member/activist & will be following the response to this letter...I wish to support Sadiq Khan & my local (Labour) MP & councillors, inc. working to support election campaigns, but I cannot continue to support a party which ...

August 20th @ 5:25 am |

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"After eight years of unpaid work on behalf of women and girls in London, it seems reasonable to expect that Sadiq Khan or Sophie Linden, the deputy mayor who replaced Greenhalgh, would have wanted to tell me themselves." @polblonde ...

August 20th @ 5:21 am |

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RT @LabWomenDec: Full story in @polblonde Joan’s own words. @MayorofLondon failed to answer her reasonable letters expressing her concerns. He also ignored our letters signed by scores of London Labour members & councillors #IStandWithJoanSmit...

August 20th @ 4:24 am |

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“The silencing of women is well-documented & has a shamefully long history. This trend continues with stark consequences for women in this debate, evidenced in the reason I undertook my research & the reason I am writing this letter…” ...

August 20th @ 3:33 am |

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RT @Allenomura: #IStandWithJoanSmit... Let's tonight have her back, as Joan Smith long represented needs of women in London to be safe away from male violence and daily intimidation. To ignore women of Joan's calibre is a self-inflicted mark of shame ...

August 20th @ 3:26 am |

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RT @marmee19678: As a trustee of a Rape Crisis Centre if I am forced to step down because of my long held, feminist beliefs about women as a sex class & male sexual violence, so be it. Politicians & decision makers have lost all credibility ...

August 20th @ 3:20 am |

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RT @mrsnickih: Whatever your political persuasion- pls consider signing this letter to the current mayor of London, following the sacking of #JoanSmith @polblonde We need her voice in the support for the safety of women & girls in London. ...

August 20th @ 3:19 am |

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RT @MakeHerstory1: For the @MayorofLondon to SACK @polblonde for raising legitimate concerns of rape & domestic abuse services about self-IDing transwomen, and critiquing the @metpoliceuk is unacceptable. A @Womans_Place_UK letter of solidarity ...

August 20th @ 3:18 am |

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RT @tessahankinson: Please sign submit and share. I for one am sick of women being silenced and sacked for simply being and advocating for women. And I speak as someone experiencing ghastly menopause,failed fertility,terrible periods, a total ...

August 20th @ 3:17 am |

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Good morning. Thank you to everyone who has added their name to this letter protesting the treatment of Joan Smith by the London Mayor and calling for her reinstatement. We will keep the letter open for more signatures today. https://t.co/KQsi9S...

August 20th @ 3:17 am |