FQT 22 January 2022

Feminist Question Time with speakers from UK, France, Brazil and Canada

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Anne R. - Brazil / UK

Mothers, their children and feminism - Under patriarchal society, women are a subcategory of men for their presumed reproductive capacity while the ones that have children, the mothers, are yet a sub category of women. Exiled from social mobility, fired from jobs, they undergo specific types of violence such obstetric violence while producing and maintaining human lives. Unpaid and undermined for the invisible labour they offer to society, by renew the capacity of labourers all around the world with loads of invisible housework, mothers are women that are trapped into surviving patriarchy with the extra responsibility of also protecting and improving the lives of their children. Can we discuss motherhood and childhood from a place of power rather than servitude?

Bio: Anne Rammi is an immigrant woman, artist, activist and mother of three. Born in Brazil, she was a member of several activist communities and movements, focused on social and environmental regeneration, always centring women, especially mothers, children and nature. With solid background in mobilisation, campaigning and culture hacking, Anne is currently living in the United Kingdom and always committed to the future of life on planet earth from a perspective of care and collaboration.

Nina From Canada

Employment Equity: Vs Merit to Self Identity: Canada Hat Tricking the Co-opt - From A Canada perspective the oppression that resulted in the requirement for employment equity has benefited from trans rights more than trans, who are asserting special rights - owing to depriving others of ordinary human senses and own rights to language, ideas and expression; while undermining demographics protected from oppression by conflating and coopting whole person oppression along with misapplying human rights in the public square to private lives.

Bio: A 1990s Dyke who was a news editor at Angles, The Lesbian Avengers Vancouver Chapter, The December 9 Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian / Vancouver Police Liaison Committee, the Vancouver Women's Health Collective, before being a federal civil service employee, who in 1998 was in the first pride marching unit of federal government employees. I have in disability retirement, returned to activism, and I am filing at the BC Human Rights level and am awaiting a Supreme Court of Canada file number. Nina started life as an ordinary Canadian.

Blandine Desanges - France

The count of femicides is now under attack in France, because seen as transphobic - 1 / The history of putting the word feminicide on the agenda

2 / The group "feminicides by companions or ex"

3 / NousToutes, a feminist group that becomes queer and then anti-feminist

4 / The current controversy: the facts, the reactions

Bio: French teacher (economy and sociology in high school), I am a radical feminist and activist. I am very attached to freedom of conscience and expression, which is one more reason to speak here.

Anna Cleaves and Laila Namarkdan - UK

News from UK - Erosion of single sex wards, conversion therapy and more - The erosion of single sex wards in hospitals by default AND update on the UK's proposed legislation on conversion therapy

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