Feminism • Page 3
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Women have a right to single-sex toilets
WPUK is pleased to hear reports that the Government has asserted the statutory and ethical rights for women to have access to single-sex toilets. The provision of single-sex public...
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Expelled by the left: the case of the Spanish Feminist Party
Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She specialises in ending male violence against girls and women and is currently pursuing a PhD...
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Solidarity with the Spanish Feminist Party/Mensaje de Solidaridad con el Partido Feminista de España
We are alarmed by the expulsion of the Spanish Feminist Party from the left-wing coalition block Izquierda Unida this week because of disagreements about plans to support self-ID. This...
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No answer from Labour over intimidation
On 23rd September 2019, we held an unofficial fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference in Brighton to discuss the demands in our manifesto. Due to intimidation by trans rights...
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Dear Lisa Nandy: a letter from Ruth Serwotka
Dear Lisa Nandy, I write on behalf of the feminist campaigning organisation Woman’s Place UK (WPUK). Information about us can be found here. I am a co-founder of WPUK,...
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We are Woman’s Place UK
We are the co-founders of Woman’s Place UK, a campaign established to ensure that women’s voices are heard and our sex based rights upheld. We are members of the...
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What needs to happen to end violence against women?: Karen Ingala Smith
Karen Ingala Smith has been recording the names of and commemorating all UK women killed by men since 2012. She is co-founder of the Femicide Census. Karen is CEO...
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This is a movement: Kiri Tunks
Kiri Tunks is a teacher and trade union activist. She is a co-founder of Woman’s Place UK. This is the speech she gave on the closing plenary of the...
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Courage is catching: Joan McAlpine
Joan McAlpine MSP is member of The Scottish Parliament & chair of its Culture, Tourism, Europe & External Affairs Committee. The committee took evidence on sex & gender identity...
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We can speak up and we can be heard: Maya Forstater
Maya Forstater is a researcher & writer working on business & sustainable development. She lost her job at the Centre for Global Development after tweeting & writing about the...
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50 Years of Women’s Liberation in the UK: Pragna Patel
Pragna Patel is a founding member of Southall Black Sisters’ advocacy and campaigning centre and Women Against Fundamentalism (now non-operational). She worked as a coordinator and senior case worker...
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Responses to Pi Media from WPUK and UCL Women’s Liberation SIG
On 21st January, a student news site UCL Pi Media published an article entitled ‘UCL hosting Women’s Place UK conference sparks concern’. This article has been edited several...
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Sex-based discrimination: an interview with Dominican feminists Michelle Morales and Violeta Jimenez
This article is part of a series of interviews featuring international perspectives on the ramifications of the concept of ‘gender identity’ within public policy. We are grateful to all...
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Misogyny and anti-intellectualism in academia: Raquel Rosario Sanchez
This is a transcript of the speech Raquel Rosario Sánchez delivered at the University of Cambridge on 05 December 2019 for the ‘Gender Critical Feminism in Public and Academic...
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Until all our sisters are free: Paula Boulton
Paula Boulton is a musician, playwright and granddaughter of one of the first women Labour councillors. This post was first published on Facebook. We are republishing it here with...
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One Possibility: Susan Matthews at A Woman’s Place is at the lectern
Susan Matthews is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton University. Susan Matthews writes for Transgender Trend and has contributed to two edited collections on the transgender child. She...
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Power and history: Selina Todd at A Woman’s Place is at the lectern
Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. Her research focuses on women, feminism and working-class life in modern Britain. She is the author of the bestseller The People....
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Dear men: How to support women’s rights
From our archives: as true then as it is now. This blog is based on a speech that WPUK co-founder, Kiri Tunks, made at the London Men Supporting Women’s...
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Misogyny in action: a rebuttal of statement by Trans Action Oxford
On 17th October 2019, Trans Action Oxford published an open letter attacking Woman’s Place UK and our forthcoming event, A Woman’s Place is at the lectern. This statement is...
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Turbulent Times: Ruth Serwotka
It is something of a cliché to say we are living in turbulent times. But we are. Within every social movement currently on the march resides an extraordinary level...
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