FQT 16 July 2022

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Brazil and UK

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. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This week’s speakers:

Isabela Callegari - Brazil - The naturalization of oppression: surrogacy and the postmodern perspective - Surrogacy has been normalized as part of family planning suited to individual desires in contemporary societies. At the same time that there is no public debate on the subject, the practice is increasingly propagated by celebrities in the media and legitimized, within social movements and academia, as a simple work and a path to the conformation of new non-heteronormative family formats. This presentation aims to oppose such a narrative, based on postmodernism and liberalism, to the feminist understanding of surrogacy as a new and brutal oppression of women within the patriarchy.

Bio: Isabela is a mother, economist and activist for women's liberation

Julia Long - UK - A Critique of Gender Critical Feminism

Bio: Julia Long is a lesbian feminist with a background in research and campaigning and against male violence, who is now focused on building women's community, growing veggies and living the revolution now.

Kellie-Jay Keen - UK - On Standing for Women

Bio: Kellie-Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker, is the founder of Standing For Women, a global women’s rights campaign group. She is a woman, a mother of four and a free speech advocate . She first came into the public eye when interviewed under caution by the British Police for speaking out about the transitioning of children on Twitter and is famous for her "adult human female" T shirts. Her YouTube Channel has 53K subscribers and a clip of her quip "I'm not a vet but I know what a dog is" got 25.5m views on Tiktok.

Disclaimer: Women’s Declaration International (WDI) hosts a range of women from all over the world on Feminist Question Time (FQT) and Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) and on webinars hosted by country chapters – all have signed our Declaration or have known histories of feminist activism - but beyond that, we do not know their exact views or activism. WDI does not know in detail what they will say on webinars. The views expressed by speakers in these videos are not necessarily those of WDI and we do not necessarily support views or actions that speakers have expressed or engaged in at other times. As well as the position stated in our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based Rights, WDI opposes sexism, racism and anti-semitism. For more information see our Frequently Asked Questions or email info@womensdeclaration.com

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