WDI Podcast

Feminist Question Time with speakers from US, UK and Spain

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. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This week’s speakers:

Genevieve Gluck - USA

Porn and Q&A about Women's Voices and Reduxx.

Bio: Writer, co-founder of REDUXX, founder of Women’s Voices.

Lynne Harne - UK

Positively lesbian - background; why the website is needed; language;;content, way forward

Bio: Lynne Harne is a lesbian feminist activist and a founder member of the Lesbian Rights Alliance, an organisation campaigning to stop lesbian erasure. Recently she has been working with a small group of younger lesbians to create a website and youth project aimed at young lesbians, now known as PositivelyLesbian.org

Ananda Castano - Spain

Organising lesbian feminism in Spain: obstacles and progress - I will talk about the problems we face as lesbians in the feminist community, the threats and invasions transactivism supposes and some projects we have started in order to overcome all this. Erasure, ostracism and hostility towards lesbians are still a not-aknowledged issue in almost every domain of a lesbian's life. This is even more overt in the case of lesbian feminism. For lesbians to be able to organise ourselves, we must adress this issue and develop strategies to confront it. In Spain we have started several projects which seek to bring lesbian feminist consciousness back for lesbians and for every woman.  We have created an independent radical feminist press, consciousness-rising groups, international and national activist groups and local feminist groups with a strong lesbian feminist pressence. We have created spaces for the spread and discussion of lesbian feminism.  We have been writting, bonding and creating.

Bio: Lesbian feminist activist from Spain. 29 years old woman with disabilities and chronic illnesses, lesbian separatist writer and poet. Currently working on the radical feminist press, Labrys Editorial. Member of RadFem Sevilla, and lesbian feminists groups like (Re)acción lésbica, Lesbianas de la Munda and the consciousness-rising group Reflexión Lésbica.

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 Questions or email [email protected]

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from UK, Canada, Italy and Brazil

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. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This webinar is a Journalists Exclusive. Women who write in the media about the gender ideology.

This week’s speakers:

Jo Bartosch - UK - overview of coverage in the UK & how the trans lobby captured the press

Bio: Jo Bartosch is a widely published journalist at the forefront of the fight against transgenderism. She has a background in feminist organising and activism. In addition to articles in world-leading outlets, Jo is lead reporter for Lesbian and Gay News.

Anna Slatz - Canada - the importance of accurately reporting male crimes, how the trans factor makes it even more difficult, and why feminist outlets like Reduxx are necessary

Bio: Anna is a journalist, writer, professional troll, and co-founder of feminist news site Reduxx with Genevieve Gluck.

Marina Terragni - Italy - How to break media's silence

Bio: I'm a writer, journalist and teacher. I'm founder of RUA (against surrogacy), RadFem Italy and Magazine online Feminist Post

Andreia Nobre - Brazil - I will be talking about how news reporting is failing the public about the real issues women face in patriarchal societies by using ambiguous language that spread men's rights narratives, blaming female victims of male violence.

Bio: Journalist at QG Feminista and 4W.Pub, writer, author of the Grumpy Guide to Radical Feminism, volunteer for several women's campaigns such as Esquerda Sem Misoginia (Leftists Without Misoginia), Filia and Purple Ribbons, among others.

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 Questions or email [email protected]

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Aus/NZ Feminist Question Time: 26 March 2022

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. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This AUS/NZ webinar is in honour of International Women's Day and ranges across all the articles of the Declaration on Women's sex-based rights via the lenses of past, present and future in the women's liberation movement.

This week’s speakers:

Adjunct Professor Susan Hawthorne (Spinifex Press)

Jocelynne Scutt AO (University of Buckingham)

Anna Kerr (Feminist Legal Clinic)

Stassja Frei (Coalition for Biological Reality)

Renée Gerlich (Dragon Cloud Press)

…discussing where we've been, where we are, and perhaps most importantly, where we're going. Hosted by Janet Fraser (Feminist Legal Clinic).

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Women's Sex-Based Rights - grassroots global women's voices-

A special webinar in the context of CSW66

Topic: Women's Sex-Based Rights

WDI will be at the UN for the NGO CSW66 virtual forum. This is the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which runs parallel to the official session taking place at the UN Headquarters.

This year’s speakers:

Graziella Florimond, from France: "Women's right are based on sex", a presentation on Article 1 of the Declaration.

Graziella Florimond, a femalist who advocates against the erosion of women's rights in France with WDI France

Laura Lecuona, from Mexico: “Language & the current backlash against women’s rights to freedom of opinion and of expression.”, a presentation on the Article 4 of the Declaration.

Laura Lecuona has a degree in Philosophy; she’s an editor and translator, and a feminism communicator. She’s country contact for the Women’s Declaration International Mexico's chapter.

A member of WDI China: "Violence against Women Is Sex-Based.", a presentation on the Article 8 of the Declaration.

A lesbian Feminist from WDI China.

Rochelle Dean, from Bahamas: "Reaffirming the need for the protection of the rights of the child -Training and Continuing Professional Development Programmes that align with the best interest of the child.", a presentation on the Article 9 of the Declaration.

Rochelle Dean is a civil society expert, academic, and also country contact for the Women's Declaration International Bahamas Chapter. 

Sheila Jeffreys, from the UK: "Can Human Rights as a concept survive?"

Sheila Jeffreys is a lesbian feminist activist, author and academic. She became an active feminist in 1973 in the UK. She moved to the University of Melbourne in Australia in 1991 where she taught sexual politics and back to the UK on retirement in 2015. She has written 11 books on the history and politics of sexuality, the most recent being an autobiography, Trigger Warning, in 2020. She is a Director of WDI.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from UK, Bahamas, Scotland, South Africa, Australia and Argentina

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. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This week’s speakers:

Jo Brew - UK on WDI organising

Rochelle Dean - Bahamas on WDI Master classes

Sally Wainwright & Claudine Lee from Scotland and South Africa on Feminist breakout rooms

Anna Kerr from Australia on Legal Action

Maria Binetti from Argentina on Being a WDI country contact

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from USA, UK, Turkey, Mexico

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. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This week’s speakers:

Kara Dansky - USA

The American GRA - The US Congress is considering a bill called the Global Respect Act (not coincidentally, GRA). It would bar entry to the US of "foreign people" who engaged in "other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, or the security of [LGBTQI] persons," or "acted as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign person" in doing so. This might be a way of denying entry to the USA to those who do not believe in gender identity ideology.

Bio: Kara Dansky is a public speaker, writer, and consultant who is committed to protecting the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls on the basis of sex in law and throughout society. In November 2021, she published the ground-breaking work The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls. She currently serves as President of the U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International (WDI), which seeks to promote the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights. She served on the board of the Women's Liberation Front from 2016 to 2020. Kara is also an attorney with a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, and an extensive background in criminal justice law and policy.

Emma Bateman - UK

Green Party - Green party position on women's sex based rights

Bio: co-chair of the Green Party of England and Wale’s women’s committee

Arussi Unda - Mexico

Sexual and reproductive exploitation in Mexico: The only political scenario when they suddenly know what a woman is. - The Supreme Court, political parties and the President of the Equality Commission are pushing “the women’s right to sell their bodies” in the worst time to be a women in Mexico ever.

Bio: Woman speaker of “Las Brujas Del Mar” (Witches of the Sea) feminist collective from Veracruz, Mexico.

Hale Akay - Turkey

Women confronting trans(queer) feminism in Turkey - I will talk on behalf of, but not as a representative of, a group of women who are being intimidated, harassed and threatened first on social media, now even in IWD demonstration, because they oppose transfeminism in Turkey. I will talk about the dynamics that made intersectional feminism as the mainstream approach, how the debate around gender identity and trans rights escalated in the past three years and pushed some feminists to organize among themselves to resist this ideological capture.

Bio: I'm a former academic, now working as an independent researcher in the UK. I worked in human rights organisations for years both as a voluntary and a professional. For the last 3 years, I have been active especially on social media in debates concerning trans rights.

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Viktoria K. (Netzwerk Ella) über Prostitution: Die systematische Beseitigung der Menschenrechte der Frau

Feministische Fragestunde der Women’s Declaration International – Deutschland, am 27.02.2022 mit der Referentin Viktoria K. vom Netzwerk Ella zum Thema Prostitution. Moderiert von Stefanie Bode.

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Feminist Question Time with speakers from South Korea, Brazil, Scotland and USA

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. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading  global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This week’s speakers:

Jihye Kuk - South Korea

As a result of being pushed out of women's organizations for their gender critical opinions, Incheon Women's Line left their umbrella organization and changed their name. I'll also cover the recent development with the anti-discrimination law of South Korea.

Bio: Jihye Kuk is the director of Yeolda Books, a radical feminist publisher, and is in charge of international cooperation at Women's Right Plus, South Korea.

Raquel Marques - Brazil

Body matters - The impacts of political trans discourse on women's rights.

Bio: Reproductive rights activist, Public Health Ph.D.

Lucy Hunter Blackburn - Scotland

Q&A update on Scotland

Bio: Lucy is from MurrayBlackburnMackenzie which is an Edinburgh-based policy analysis group

Suzanne Forbes-Vierling - USA

The utilization of dominance techniques and dehumanizing language as the first phase of conquering Womanhood.

Bio: Feminist Activist

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Australia NZ chapter of Women Declaration International - WDI discussing Article 4 and 5 of the declaration.

- Eilean Haley

- Chris Sitka

- M

- Viviane Morrigan

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Feminist Question Time with speakers from USA, Canada and UK

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. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.  

This week’s speakers:  

Mother of Swimmer - USA 

Mother of young woman who swims for Ivy League speaks out  

Cynthia Millen - USA 

How can the Ivy League be so stupid? In sports, but especially in swimming, bodies compete against bodies. Boys and men will always have immutable advantages over girls and women in terms of lung capacity, skeletal size, increased circulation, and the number of fast twitch muscles. No amount of testosterone suppression will change this, and boys/men who are equally trained will always win over girls/women. This is why swimming has always been divided by sex. Men don't magically become women because they've lowered their testosterone, and it is an insult to all women for any man or organization to support this line of thinking. Furthermore, women and girls deserve privacy and the opportunity to share their uniquely feminine biological/hormonal/psychological experiences with other women and girls. It is degrading to permit biological males into women's locker rooms. Most importantly, girls deserve the opportunity to play to win. It is patronizing to girls to expect them to deny their dreams. By permitting biological men to compete against women, we are pushing girls back to the sidelines and out of the competition.  

Bio: Former County Prosecutor (B.C.-- before children) now children's book author (C.M.Millen). Married for 40 years and Mother of 5 who was a national swim official (USA Swimming, NCAA, International Paralympic) for over 30 years. Women are not men with low testosterone.   

Coach Linda Blade - Canada 

Update on Will Thomas and the Struggle to Save Women's Sports By now the entire world of sports knows about Will Thomas, the male swimmer at University of Pennsylvania who self-identifies as a woman and has now dominated women's NCAA swimming races. The question is: What impact has this had on the continued struggle to establish boundary lines for fairness and safety in women's sports? Will advocates for female sports finally be given a seat at the table when international sports federations re-examine their trans inclusion and eligibility policies? The answer offers a glimmer of hope in the midst of this bleak situation.  

Bio: Linda Blade is a former National Champion of Canada in track & field (heptathlon) with a PhD in Kinesiology. For the past 26 years, she has run a private consulting business as “Sport Performance Professional” coach in Edmonton, Alberta working with athletes in over 15 sports (beginner to elite). Since 2014, Linda has also served as President of the Board for Athletics Alberta, where she has a duty to represent the province of Alberta at Canadian national sport policy meetings. In a bid to increase public awareness of the threat posed by gender ideology, Linda has partnered with journalist Barbara Kay to author a new book, titled: UNSPORTING: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport.  

Emma Hilton - UK

Fairness in female sports - after Tokyo Review of historic rules, latest news on fairness from UK and IOC, case study of swimming.  

Bio: Academic developmental biologist, director of Sex Matters, special interest in fairness in sports, consultant with sports federations, author of one of the most popular scientific papers ever published (COVID aside)   

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