What’s Current: Speak Up For Women hold event on the future of feminism in New Zealand Parliament

  • After New Zealand’s Massey University cancelled Speak Up For Women’s venue booking due to activist pressure, their event, Feminism 2020, was held at Parliament. Speakers discussed porn culture, free speech, identity politics, cancel culture, and gender identity ideology.
  • Meghan Murphy spoke to NewsHub Nation’s Simon Shepherd on Friday about the conflict between gender identity legislation and women’s rights.
  • The UK tribunal considering Maya Forstater’s case for wrongful dismissal has heard from Kristina Harrison, a trans-identified male, that even people who identify as transgender are afraid to use the biological terms “male” and “female” accurately, fearing persecution and backlash on social media.
  • Around 2,500 police have been deployed around the Sabarimala temple in India, out of fear that there may be violence over women’s demands to enter, following a Supreme Court decision to overturn the ban on female worshippers between the ages of 10 and 50.
  • South African women are demanding that the death penalty be implemented for severe sexual violence, after a 19-year-old woman was raped and murdered at a post office.
  • A study of French femicide cases suggests that police may have missed a chance to help as many as 41 per cent of women murdered by a current or former partner in the country.
Natasha Chart

Natasha Chart is an online organizer and feminist living in the United States. She does not recant her heresy.