FQT 19 February 2022

Feminist Question Time with speakers from UK, Chile and Australia

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:

Maureen O Hara - UK

Criminal justice, gender identity and compelled speech in England and Wales

Bio: Feminist, Lawyer, Co-author of the declaration of women’s sex-based rights

Carolina Agurto Flores and Constanza Riquelme Bórquez - Chila

An ecofeminist look at the rights based on the sex of peasant girls and women in Chile

Bio:

Hello, my name is Carolina Agurto, I am 33 years old and have a 15-year-old son. I live in a rural area of the central valley in Chile, which bases its economy on peasant agriculture and, in the last 30 years, on patriarchal agro-extractivism. capitalist. I am an ecofeminist activist for women's rights based on sex, particularly peasant women; the right to nutrition and food, and the right to food sovereignty. I work independently as nutritionist, and I have a master's degree in human nutrition.

Hello, my name is Constanza, I am 30 years old, an agronomist by profession, a teacher and facilitator in agroecology for peasant farmers, so I travel from the north and central zone of Chile. I write in Ecoféminas Críticas, I am active in food sovereignty movements since I want to exercise my right to work and care for the land.

Helen Pringle - Austrlalia

The Women's Pool - My talk concerns the Women's Pool, aka McIvers Ladies Pool, in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney where I live. The space fo the pool is for women and children only, and it recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. In 1995, the pool survived a challenge on the basis that its women-only policy was discriminatory, and in the last two years has been the subject of a campaign to allow transgender persons to access and inhabit the space. I talk about WHY it is important to maintain the pool as women-only, in terms of security and privacy, and women's freedom from male surveillance, but also in terms of women's conviviality. I will also say a little about how the book in which my chapter was almost wiped out by trans objections.

Bio: I live and work in Sydney Australia, and am an associate professor at the University of NSW. I teach on women's rights and justice, political theory, Australian politics and international law. I co-founded the Nordic Model Information Network, a global research network supporting the abolition of the prostitution system. I owe what I am to the women of my family, including my great-grandmother, Agnes MacGregor Love, a fearless Glasgow suffragette.

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