The @UKLabour Mayor of Lewisham, @damienegan, has refused to allow a panel event of black women, discussing race and gender, on @LewishamCouncil premises.
Please sign and share the petition to let him know that women have the right to be heard!https://t.co/hW58f0GIeX
— WE NEED TO TALK (@WNTTgra) March 20, 2019
- In the UK, the Lewisham Council cancelled an event organized by We Need To Talk to discuss gender identity and race featuring three black women due to “safety concerns.” A petition has been started asking them to reconsider.
- The president of the Southern Poverty Law center resigns after allegations that now-departed founder, Morris Dees, harassed female and non-white staff.
- NASA cancelled an all-female spacewalk, citing a lack of outerwear small enough for female astronauts.
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- The father of missing Indigenous woman, Lila Moody-Ogilvie, was told by Canadian police that she’d been found, when she had been dead in a Vancouver public housing unit for days.