A Woman's Place is Defending Women's Spaces, launch of Karen Ingala Smith's

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An evening with Julie Bindel in conversation with Karen Ingala Smith to launch her book, 'Defending Women's Spaces'.
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Karen Ingala Smith is CEO of nia, a women’s sector NGO. She has 30 years experience of providing specialist services to women. She is also the co-founder and director of the Femicide Census and Counting Dead Women (recording and commemorating all UK women killed by men or where a man is the principal suspect/perpetrator). She is a Director of Woman’s Place UK.
Julie Bindel is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and researcher. She has been active in the global campaign to end violence towards women and children since 1979, co-founded Justice for Women in 1990 and the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize in 1998. She writes regularly for The Observer, Spectator, Telegraph and Unherd, is the author of over 30 book chapters and reports. Her previous books include Straight Expectations (shortlisted for the Polari Prize), The Pimping of Prostitution and Feminism for Women.
The book: Defending Women's Spaces by Karen Ingala Smith
Who counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a particular boiling point emerges through conflicting demands over women’s spaces. Which should govern access to these - sex or gender identity?
In this trenchant critique of inclusivity politics, she argues that we cannot ignore the wealth of evidence which shows that people of the female sex have a unique set of needs which are often not met by mixed-sex spaces. Drawing on her 30 years of experience in researching and recording men’s violence against women and girls, she outlines how certain spaces, including refuges, benefit from remaining single sex - and what they stand to lose. Written with sensitivity and respect for all concerned, this book nevertheless dismantles the idea that we have reached a post-sex utopia.

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@amandacaswell1779 Жыл бұрын

Great discussion. Sisterhood and solidarity. Thank you :)

@Tina06019 Жыл бұрын

34:49 Upper class university-educated young women are unlikely to end up in prison. So they have a hard time believing that the lovable university-educated male transwomen in their own social set could pose a risk to them, because generally, they don’t. They seem to be unable to understand that convicted predatory males will want to « identify » themselves into the female prison estate. This IS a class issue.

@wyleecoyotee4252 Жыл бұрын

You ladies are amazing. Thank you for doing this. Important messages for all women. Thank you from Canada 🇨🇦

@hillakerner Жыл бұрын

Fantastic ❤

@edeneverly2573 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this book, Karen!

@lonewolf18650 5 ай бұрын

Its time for true equality

@shiftshift6926 Жыл бұрын

The article with Janice Turner for the Times was a cracker. Thank you for this discussion, can't wait to read the book.

@blah914 4 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@LifeChangePlans Жыл бұрын

I didn't remain silent. I wrote my story. It took me 14 months many tears and a range of emotions including shame, guilt, fear, anxiety and anger. I stopped and started had writing spurts. I self-published in May 2022 the month before the Civil court action brought by a former partner for forced homelessness under "precarious eviction" as in no rights to occupy after the abrupt termination of the relationship. I had no legal representation over two years. A public lawyer for the verbal hearing. Who would not raise the Gender Violence complaint in the Civil Court because it is a criminal complaint. She was wrong. It should have been raised. How do I get help to make a complaint of breaching human rights?

@fedzonk3481 Жыл бұрын

Lots of very good points, cannot believe this situation and what’s going on, shocking

@LifeChangePlans Жыл бұрын

But the way they speak against the feminist work is actually abusive. Trolling social media accounts and gaslighting individuals. You are right that the majority of these people are narcissistic and misogynistic.