FQT 17 September 2022

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and France 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. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. This week’s speakers: Caitlin Roper - Australia - Woman as object: Sex dolls and robots as a form of pornography - I explore sex dolls and robots as a form of pornography, and an emerging form of technology used against women, to facilitate men’s abuse of women and turn women into pornography. Bio: Caitlin is a writer, activist and Campaigns Manager at Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, a founding member of Adopt Nordic WA, and co-founder of the Feminist Academy of Technology and Ethics. Her book Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating: The Case for Resistance (2022) is available from Spinifex Press. Raine McLeod - Canada - Government-Funded Defamation: How the Canadian Government is Silencing Feminists - The government-funded non-profit that is targeting feminists in Canada and the hit piece they wrote about me. Bio: Former English Coordinator for WDI - Canada, founder of Alberta Radical Feminists Carol Bartle and Katrina Biggs - New Zealand - An Update from Aotearoa New Zealand - Events in Aotearoa related to transgender identity ideology – debates and politics - women’s rights and GC feminists. Issues with language changes and the issues related to the loss of sex-based language in maternity, birth, breastfeeding and women’s health Bio: Carol Bartle has a health background including midwifery - Major work and interests include women’s health, ethics and human rights, climate change and health, breastfeeding and infant feeding politics, women in prison – particularly mothers with babies in prison. Katrina Biggs - I am an ordinary woman. I have done a number of things in my life, but going to university and getting letters after my name aren’t amongst them. However, I can still work out how any legislation which allows men into women’s and girls’ spaces and sports won’t go well for women and girls. There have always been, and always will be, a certain number of men in any group who are not okay people, which is why women and girls need safeguards and boundaries. It has no bearing on how men identify or their occupation, and it’s naïve in the extreme to believe otherwise. No one should need a university degree to know this. I am a co-spokeswoman for Speak Up for Women New Zealand. Pauline Makoveitchoux - France - Being a feminist photographer in a misogynistic society that advocates the hypersexualization of women and makes feminist activists invisible. - The personal is political so I will tell my life story, and my vision of feminist photography. In this society where women are only passively represented and material reality is now erased, I continue to try to document struggles and create images of authentic, active, struggling women. Bio: activist feminist, photographer. 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 Questi