Edition 48: British Feminists & Feminism

In our April 2020 edition, hear timely world news as written and delivered by WLRN's Dana Vitalosova after Jenna's warm greeting to all of our listeners in this time of the virus outbreak. The focus of this show is on British feminists discussing their initiation and involvement in the women's movement, but our guests also talk about the virus outbreak and how it is possibly impacting the ways we think about ourselves, society and how we organize. Venice Allan is a woman’s rights campaigner who set up a series of talks on gender identity ideology, We Need To Talk, in 2017. She now works with Posie Parker at Standing For Women, a campaign to maintain the dictionary definition of ‘woman’ as an adult, human female. Thistle spoke with Venice via skype last week to hear about Venice's work in the UK and to get her take on the current British feminist movement. She speaks in great detail about the last event she helped organize before the lock down called "Women Say on Women's Day" at the historic Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London for international women's day on March 8th. After the interview with Venice, the listener is treated to a delightful three-way conversation Thistle had with young British feminists Naomi Bridges and Katy Worely of the Manchester based Make More Noise collective. DJ, activist and all round loud mouth DJ Lippy (AKA Katy Worley) is an accidental feminist who stumbled into the Gender Wars after one too many Twitter bans. She has used her experience as a club promoter to put on a series of events called "the elephant in the room" She also works with Naomi on the podcast series called Suffragette City Radio. Naomi is a committed feminist and armchair provocateur, interested in why what is happening is happening. When not running a mouthy blog, podcast and events with DJ Lippy she enjoys making armchair music. Cover design for this month's podcast is by our newest WLRN member, Kat Walker. Thank you Kat for your contribution! Photo credit goes to Marcia Matthews. Featured music in the podcast was recommended by Katy and Naomi and is Shay D with "Set Her Free" and Au Pairs with "It's Obvious."