Category: women
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I never watch telly, but…
Okay, I watched Gender Wars last night. The world has, over the last couple of years, become aware of a problem that’s been developing for over 20 years. I’ve been up to my eyes in it for around 5 of those years, and feel I know the issues all too well, but so many people…
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The little-known story of being an immigrant
There aren’t many issues you don’t need to cover at a women’s conference. Most people know that women make up over half the population of our world, but surprisingly few realize the significance of being a woman trying to get along in a world designed by and for men. Few people realize how sex impacts…
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It shouldn’t take courage to say so
Juemin Xu and Louise Irvine are standing for the Labour Women’s Committee this year. They are supported by the Labour Women’s Declaration, because their manifesto includes standing up for women’s right to speak about women’s legal rights. Go back a few years and say that, and I simply would not have believed you. Nevertheless here…
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In honour of Diane Abbott
If tokenism worked, Diane Abbott would now be an honoured, senior politician: a figurehead, a hero – the first Black female MP to be elected to Westminster. What must it have been like, being the only Black woman in that hidebound, clique-driven institution? Yet she has served her constituency, being confidently re-elected every time, for…
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Big lies and bad memories
All over the country, former Labour Party activists are filling halls and cinemas to watch Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie. I’m not surprised. They were hurt, they were cheated, they were robbed, and it’s healing, to see your story told properly. I don’t seem to have gone along though. I was a CLP officer…
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Mind the gap
This is to all our warrior women who are, understandably, running short of patience – and also, to those who are now saying they’re out of patience with our women. Some are calling it the genderation gap and whilst that’s sometimes true, I will start by pointing out there are plenty of youngsters who saw…
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In which this feminist listens very carefully to socialists talking about anti-racism
***Long read for the weekend*** When I was a Labour Party officer, there was a real hunger for political education amongst Corbyn-supporting members, and my constituency party had a Political Education Officer who delivered. We had films, we had workshops and we had debates. We sent people to political conferences (not just the Labour Party…
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Is your bookshop hiding anything from you?
In the last few weeks, Hannah Barnes’ new book, Time to Think has been eagerly awaited. Anxious parents are concerned about schools being told to keep secrets from them, and about what their children are learning about sex and gender on TikTok. In political circles, the existence or otherwise of ‘innate gender identity’ is a…
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Oh alright, I’ll talk about toilets again
For the last five years, I have regularly had people throw that one about “are you going to look up people’s skirts in the loos” at me, and I have regularly had people say to me, “don’t mixed sex toilets solve the problem”. I generally answered – truthfully, that the women’s sex based rights campaign…
Kay Green 