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03/04/2021

Petition: stop requiring victims of abuse to reapply every year for a restraining order against their abuser!

Some victims have to apply to court yearly to ask for a restraining order against their abuser to be extended.

23/03/2021

📣 Event tonight 7 pm! Tickets £5

The death of Sarah Everard is a tragedy that has shook us all. But male violence against women is an ongoing, wider issue.

This panel discussion event by the WEP Hackney branch, will discuss men’s role in gender equality.

Open to all of course, but to the men who are unsure how to help, this event will be a great place to start.

Thanks,

WEP Soc 💜💚

A panel discussion with mentors and movement leaders on men's role in gender equality

08/03/2021

Happy International Women’s Day! ✊🏾💜💚

This important day is a time to reflect on the historic changes achieved, as well as the vital steps to come in the fight for gender equality.

Stay up to date on this page for upcoming WEP Soc events during Women’s History Month.

Enjoy this day of celebration,

WEP Soc

28/02/2021

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈

On the last day of this important month, we celebrate Jackie Shane.

Shane was an American singer prominent in Toronto's 1960s soul and R&B scene. Her 1962 single ‘Any Other Way’ was high in the Canadian charts.

She was an early pioneer as a transgender performer and would later share her gender identity, though the hostile early 60s saw her perceived as a drag singer.

Shane’s songs embody the rhythm and poise of the soul genre, delivered in her smooth, confident voice.

Read more of her in this 2019 obituary:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/25/jackie-shane-groundbreaking-trans-soul-singer

27/02/2021

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈

Today we celebrate, Virginia Woolf.

Pioneering, iconic writer of the literary Modernist movement, Woolf’s novels and essays include themes of feminism and queerness.

Her essay, A Room of One’s Own, advocates independence and creative freedom for women. With gay romance presented in her novels Mrs Dalloway and The Waves.

Her one-time lover and lifelong friend, Vita Sackville-West supposedly inspired the eponymous figure Orlando, the gender-shifting character of Woolf’s novel.

Attached are images of an exchange of letters between Woolf and West from January 1927.

23/02/2021

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈

Today we celebrate, Sylvia Rivera.

Rivera was an American gay liberation and transgender activist. She was a leading figure in the Gay Liberation Front during 1970’s New York.

Alongside Marsha P. Johnson, she set up STAR, the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.

Rivera, and scenes from her extraordinary life, feature prominently in the documentary
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.

17/02/2021

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! 🏳️‍🌈

To celebrate this important month, WEP Soc will be celebrating important figures in LGBTQ+, feminist history.

Today we celebrate, Audre Lorde.

A self described ‘Black, le***an, mother, warrior, poet’ , Lorde was an American writer known for her passionate writings on le***an feminism and racial issues.

In her seminal book of essays on the power of women, poetry and anger, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, Lorde wrote:

‘We use whatever strengths we have fought for, including anger, to help define and fashion a world where all our sisters can grow, where our children can love, and where power of touching and meeting another woman’s difference and wonder will eventually transcend the need for destruction.’

06/12/2020

It’s the 12th day of of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.

Today WEP Soc are asking for support on another important cause, the ratifying of the Istanbul Convention.

The UK needs a comprehensive, long-term strategic approach to ending violence against women.

This is what the Istanbul Convention offers. It is the strongest and most comprehensive legal framework that exists to tackle violence against women and girls – and it leaves no woman behind.

Please add your signature to request that the UK government ratify this and provide protection to women and girls properly and legally.

And please share this post to get as many signatures as possible.

Thank you.

We are proud to launch our 16 days, 16 changes series to highlight 16 key changes that would result from the UK ratifying the Istanbul Convention. We invite you to add your voice and call for this critical change for women and girls. For the UN 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (25 N...