WDI Podcast

Feminist Question Time (Aus/NZ) with speakers from Canada & Australia on Article 8 of the Declaration

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald from Canada

Co-founders of Persons Against Non-State Torture. Feminist activists, independent scholars with many published works, and grassroot supporters of women who have survived non-State torture (NST) and sexualized exploitation perpetrated within intimate relationships.

Jessica Williams from Australia

Member of WHRC Aus/NZ working group, Founder of WA Feminist Lobby Network, and Co-Convener Single Sex Spaces, WA

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from USA and Ireland

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Jesika Gonzalez @TERFCollective - USA - An overview of the nature, purpose, and work of the TERF Collective as well as thoughts on the growth of our movement for the abolition of trans ideology.

Jesika Gonzalez is an ordinary working-class woman and the founder of the TERF Collective, an organization pursuing guerilla approaches to fighting trans ideology. TERF Collective hosts semi-weekly chat sessions with gender-critical women and radical feminists from all over the world called TERF Nights. There, she joins together decades-long activists and those newly peaked in wide-ranging conversations. They discuss the impact of gender ideology, protest actions, and participants are invited to imagine a future free of the impositions and requirements of the patriarchy.

Beth Stelzer - USA - the IOC abandoned women, now what? The recent IOC decision, what it means to female athletes, and how we can move forward.

Beth is a homemaker, wife, mom, and armature powerlifter from Minnesota. As the founder of Save Women's Sports she has traveled throughout the USA l working to protect women's sports. In just a couple years Save Women's Sports has grown from a website to an international coalition that has influenced legislation.

Miriam Kivlehan - Ireland - A short summary of the backstory to the current sex and gender conversations in Ireland (for newcomers), followed by an overview of the different groups that have recently emerged, and finishing with a mention of the public consultation that is currently underway to Review the suite of Equality Legislation

Over the past 30 years I have been involved in feminist action inboth a voluntary and paid capacity: Abortion rights campaign(s); Facilitating development of new womens groups; Access to education; Media Literacy training; Community Broadcasting; Marriage Equality; and Nordic Model Campaign. I have worked as a Community Worker; Local Development Manager; Radio Station Manager; Political Advisor; and currently working as Policy and Communication Manager with a national Domestic Violence NGO.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Taiwan, Germany, USA and Israel

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Gunda Schumann - Lesbian activist; LAZ reloaded e.V., member of the board; lawyer, sociologist, author. Germany

Topic: Settlement of transgender ideology in German politics and law in Germany - Trans activists are infiltrating Bundestag (Federal Parliament) and mobbing a gender critical feminist nominated as chair of a working group of the emerging Federal Government. Greens succeeded in passing a State law on law enforcement that allows trans identified people to choose prisons reserved for the opposite sex (with some limitations) without any public debate

Jennifer B. Bilek - an investigative journalist, artist and activist living in the United States. She is the author of The 11th Hour Blog, examining the intersections of Transgenderism, Technology and Capitalism & reporting on the global gender industry. USA

Topic: What and who is behind Transgender Ideology?

Jaclynn J - Originally from Hawai’i, USA, now based in Taiwan, I am a PhD student in the field of feminist philosophy. I am a university lecturer, a published writer, and budding activist working in the field of women’s rights and gynocritical research. I have created and manage one of the only feminist-focused book clubs in Taiwan, volunteer with various non-profit organizations, and am a voracious reader. I love traveling, ancient and medieval history, critical thinking, and challenging the status quo.

Topic: Gender identity ideology in Taiwan - On September 23, the Taipei High Administrative Court issued a ruling allowing a trans-identified male calling himself “Xiao E (小E)” to change his legal sex to female without sex reassignment surgery — the first of its kind in Taiwan. How did this ideology reach Taiwan — an Asian nation on the edge of the Pacific? It appears certain groups in Taiwan have been working in near secrecy to make this law happen, leaving the public and especially women's organizations completely out of the loop.

Luba Fein - Israeli abolitionist, a member of the women anti-prostitution coalition, and FILIA volunteer

Topic: An abolitionist struggle and implementing the Nordic model in Israel.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Mexico, Norway, USA and Austria

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Christina Ellinsen - WHRC Country Contact, Norway gives an update on Norway

CLaudia - Radical Feminist Lesbian Activist in the Autonomous WomenLesbianFemalemigrantGirlsCentre (FZ). Working in collectives for keeping the FZ autonomous, for womenstrike, as political Lesbians, in "WenDo" Feminist Self-Defense in Austria- talks about Women only spaces and Self-ID

Arussi Unda from Mexico - Spokeswoman of “Las brujas del mar”, one of the 100 most influential people for Time in 2020 and one of the 100 women most inspiring women for BBC London in 2020 - talks about the consequences of defending women in Mexico

Peggy Luhrs - Lesbian feminist who tarted a lesbian feminist rap group. She was a founder of Women Against Rape and Commonwomon editor. She headed the Women’s Council for a decade, and taught Eco-feminism at the Institute for Social Ecology. Feminist Media Review her access tv show has run for over 20 years. She is also a designer builder of several houses - talks about how Lesbians the Ultimate Loose Women

Jennifer Thomas of USA talks about Boots on the ground activism. She is the co-founder of Revfem Rebellion and GrassRoots coordinater for WHRC USA. She came to activism via environmental feminism. She was part of a community that helped close a billion dollar corporate polluter. She became aware gender ideology was a growing problem and she felt she could bring my skills, unique perspective and boots on the ground approach to help protect the rights, privacy and safety of Women and Girls.

Joy Gray - a radfem from Baltimore, Maryland. She has been a feminist activist and victim advocate since 2015. For the past 6 months, Joy has had her (Motorcycle) Boots On The Ground, traveling around the US and speaking to everyday people about gender ideology and rape culture. This experience lead her to found The RevFem Rebellion, a victim advocacy and awareness campaign focused on safeguarding women’s sex-based rights by connecting women and engaging members of the public - also talks about Boots on the ground activism

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Chile, India, UK

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Natalia Amado from Chile - Chilean political context

Vaishnavi Sundar - update from India

Denise McKenna from the UK - update on WIT survey

Rocío Seguel from Chile - what it means to be a woman as per trans activism and the reality of being a woman

Kara Dansky from USA - Kara is the President of the U.S. chapter of the Women's Human Rights Campaign and served on the board of the Women's Liberation Front from 2016 until 2020. She is a longtime feminist activist and lawyer and also has extensive experience doing criminal justice reform research and advocacy.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Australia, UK and USA

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Amparo Domingo - WHRC Country Contact Spain

Tania Sturt from New Zealand has been involved in gender identity politics for about 6 years, a founding member of Womens Liberation Aotearoa. I am currently working in the architectural industry but prior to that I spent a decade in Corrections mainly as a probation officer

Kara Dansky from USA - Kara is the President of the U.S. chapter of the Women's Human Rights Campaign and served on the board of the Women's Liberation Front from 2016 until 2020. She is a longtime feminist activist and lawyer and also has extensive experience doing criminal justice reform research and advocacy.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, US and Italy

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Marina Terragni - I'm journalist and writer. Some of my books: La scomparsa delle donne, Temporary mother/Utero in affitto e mercato dei figli, Gli uomini ci rubano tutto. I've founded RadFem Italia and magazine online Feminist Post. I'm country contact of WHRC

Saba - A long time political activist and radical feminist, Saba currently lives in California and is the mother of two children. As a founding member of WOLF and Deep Green Resistance, she is deeply committed to strategic political resistance and the power of the collective organizing.

Milli Hill - Milli Hill is a writer and journalist with bylines in Telegraph, Guardian, Mail and more. She is the author of three books, The Positive Birth Book, Give Birth like a Feminist, and (for preteen girls) My Period. She is a passionate champion of the power and wonder of female biology!

Mušić Lejla - Lejla Music, Associate prof at the Depertmant of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and COIL partnership programme prof with SUNY college, Old Westbury, New York, USA. She teaches Sociology of Gender I, and Sociology of Gender II. Youth member of Board for Sociology, at Bosnian Science Academy.

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Australia, UK and USA discussing Janice Raymond’s latest book: Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Anna Zobnina - Born in St Petersburg Russia. Currently lives in Scotland. Policy Coordinator of the European Network of Migrant Women

Sheila Jeffreys - radical lesbian feminist author and activist, UK

Renate Klien - academic, writer, publisher & feminist health activist, Australia

Susan Hawthorne - writer, poet, political commentator & publisher, Australia

Janice Raymond - an American lesbian radical feminist and professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time Australia/New Zealand

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

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.

Note: It is acknowledged by those who live and work in Edmonton, Alberta that we reside on Treaty Six Land, the traditional territories of the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, and Blackfoot First Nations.

Ro Edge is the New Zealand Spokeswoman for Save Women Sports Australasia. Ro is a women’s rights advocate who comes from a sports loving family, so she has a special interest in ensuring girls and women retain their pathways to achieving sporting excellence. Ro’s daughter studied under a university sporting scholarship in the USA, and her niece represented New Zealand at the Tokyo Olympic Games, so she has a passion for ensuring fairness and safety for women in sport.

Katherine Deves is an Australian lawyer, cofounder and spokeswoman for Save Women’s Sport Australasia. SWS is part of an international coalition of women athletes and their supporters that fight against identity inclusion policies and legislation that give men and boys access to female sports competitions. When she is not taking her three daughters to their numerous sporting activities, she speaks and writes publicly against gender identity ideology (Www.savewomenssport.com and www.katherinedeves.com.au)

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com

Feminist Question Time with speakers from Canada, Peru and Ireland

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) 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:

Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald - Canada - Talking about our book, WOMEN UNSILENCED Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win

Eva Gastañaga - Peru - Being a woman in Perú

Susan Breen - Ireland - Deep Green Resistance - an environmental group that believes in women's sex-based rights

For more information: www.womensdeclaration.com