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Keira Bell v Tavistock: Women’s Rights, Healthcare, and the Law
Keira Bell and the history of women’s rights, healthcare and the law In 1976 Loretta Ross sued and won a case against A. H. Robbins, the manufacturer of the...
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WPUK Myth busters
From the earliest days of our campaign, WPUK has faced smears, slurs, and lies intended to discredit us. We’re busy women so we don’t have time to write to...
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Reflections on WPUK: Making women’s voices count
Reflections on WPUK: Making women’s voices count As we publish the WPUK financial statement for the first three years of our existence, it feels like a good time to...
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Portsmouth Labour Party Motion: Erasing and silencing women in the name of inclusion
A story of bad faith, procedural labyrinths and digital disempowerment in the Labour Party Across the UK, women have been persistently highlighting how we are being excluded and delegitimised...
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Portsmouth CLP: What we would have said…
These are the speeches that would have been made by supporters of the Southsea motion if they have been able to contribute to the debate at Portsmouth CLP on...
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Correspondence with National Statistician on sex and the census
On National Statistics Day, two days after our Sex and the Census webinar, we wrote to the National Statistician, Sir Ian Diamond. In this letter, which you can read...
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Democratic norms trump single issues: a reflection on the US election
Many women in the UK will have been watching the election coverage of the US in the past few days, the outcome of which has ramifications not only for...
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Edinburgh Labour Students
This statement was updated on 27th October to note the withdrawal of the offending statement by Edinburgh Labour Students. Please see update at the end.
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Joint Statement on comments made by BBC Woman’s Hour 20th October 2020
Today, 20th Oct, BBC Woman’s Hour hosted an excellent discussion on the politicization of Mumsnet with feminist scholar Sarah Pedersen (at approx 25mins). The discussion looked at the growth...
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Happy World Statistics Day – Sex in the Census
Below is the text of a letter we have sent today to Ian Diamond, National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority....
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The Political Erasure of Sex
We are delighted to be supporting this important new work by Jane Clare Jones. We reproduce here the blurb from the Political Erasure of Sex website: “The Political Erasure...
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Links from #WPUKCensus Chat
These are the links that were posted in the chat during the #WPUKCensus meeting You can watch a recording of the webinar here: Sex in the Census October 2020...
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Women count, count women: WPUK & the Census
The subject of the webinar we are hosting tomorrow, Sunday 18th October, is also that of our first action: accurate recording of sex in the census. Selina Todd will...
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Labour needs to speak up for women
The treatment of Rosie Duffield MP is deplorable. We applaud her courage in speaking out. The Labour Party says it wants more light and less heat but its actions...
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There was no debate: TUC 2020
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) met this week to hold its annual conference. Like most meetings at the moment it was held online. Motions were moved and seconded –...
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Truth and Allies: Sarah Field
Cllr Sarah Field was born in Leeds in 1975. She is a single parent, ex-Labour Party member and is the elected Independent member for Garforth and Swillington in Leeds....
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Overlooking the invisible minority: girls in gangs by Michaela Clare Addison
Michaela Clare Addison is an advocate for young women & girls who have been subjected to sexual violence. She has recently been awarded an MA from CWASU (London Metropolitan...
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Against the erasure of women: interview with Spanish feminist and politician Angeles Álvarez
We are delighted to feature an interview with Spanish feminist and socialist politician Angeles Alvarez. Born in Zamora in 1961, she was a PSOE (the Partido Socialista Obrero Español,...
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Statement by the Spanish Socialist Party on Sex-Based Rights and “Theories Which Erase Women”
NOTE: This is a translation of a statement by the Spanish Socialist Party. The definitions used in the piece do not necessarily align with those used by this campaign...
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Gender recognition in Ireland: Jill Nesbitt
Jill Nesbitt is a former journalist who has worked freelance and on the staff of The Irish Times, as a researcher on The Consumer Show for RTE, Ireland’s national...
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