FQT 24 August 2023

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♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀ Feminist Question Time with speakers from UK, Canada and Portugal This week’s speakers: Sheila Jeffreys - UK - The Problem with Free Speech Bio: Sheila Jeffreys is a radical feminist writer and activist who has worked mainly against male violence and for lesbian feminism. She joined her first Women's Liberation Movement Group in the UK in 1973. She is the author of eleven books on issues such as the history of sexuality, lesbian feminism, prostitution, gay men's politics, beauty practices, the threat of patriarchal religion to women's rights and the politics of transgenderism. She is a Director of Women's Declaration International. Kathleen Lowrey - Canada - Gynepology: The Anthropology of Women Anthropology would look very different if it placed women rather than men at the center of its inquiries. This talk offers a brief tour of that alternate history of humanity. Bio: Kathleen Lowrey is an anthropologist who has done most of her fieldwork in lowland Bolivia. She is an associate professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada but in 2020 was dismissed from an administrative position following a campaign by students, faculty, and administrators who wanted her punished for refusing to adhere to gender ideology. Her faculty union is sustaining an ongoing fight on her behalf regarding this dismissal. Lia Carvalho - Portugal - Gender Identity in Portugal - digital guidelines Bio: A woman who has always stood up for equity, defending women's rights and who considers that radical feminism really fight for women, working with facts and evidence. Archaeologist by profession and social scienceenthusiast, with laboral and social/anthropological experiences mostly in Portugal and Brazil. Women's Declaration International (#WDI) Feminist Question Time is a weekly online webinar (Saturdays 3-4.30pm UK time). 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. See upcoming speakers and register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQT. There is also a monthly AUS/NZ FQT, on the last Saturday of the month at 7pm (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney)/9pm (NZ). Register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQTAUSNZ. On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series, Radical Feminist Perspectives, offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics. Register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. Find out more at https://womensdeclaration.com, where you can join more than 30,000 people and 418 organisations from 157 countries in signing our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based Rights. The Declaration reaffirms the sex-based rights of women which are set out in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 1979 (#CEDAW). Disclaimer: Women’s Declaration International hosts a range of women from all over the world on Feminist Question Time (FQT), on 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 (https://womensdeclaration.com/en/about/faqs/) or email [email protected].

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