WDI USA Convention on Reigniting the Women's Liberation Movement - We're going to win.
September 27, 2022
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The WDI USA convention Reigniting the Women’s Liberation Movement ended with a bang on Sunday, September 25.
You can also watch it here.
That’s the only part of the convention that was recorded, other than this fascinating panel on Radical Feminist Structural Analysis, which was live-streamed via Feminist Question Time (FQT) by WDI UK on Saturday, September 24. I would very much encourage women to join FQT every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. ET if you don’t already (men are invited to watch the videos later on YouTube). The video quality of the Saturday panel isn’t great because faces had to be blurred in order to protect women’s anonymity. In the world that WDI is working to create, women will not feel the need to hide.
Here’s a transcript:
That concludes the WDI USA convention Reigniting the Women’s Liberation Movement.
I have been reflecting on our conversations over the past couple of days and I have a few things I would like to offer by way of closing.
We already had our panel on what victory looks like and in preparing for that discussion I was thinking about what victory looks like for the women’s liberation movement. Now I just want to say a few things about another type of victory - the victory of this convention and everyone who participated in it. Our aim, and the title of the convention, is reigniting the women’s liberation movement. We didn’t aim to take on the complete liberation of women in one weekend. Instead, we wanted to light a torch that would turn into a flame that would keep burning until all women and girls are truly liberated. We talked about the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, radical feminist structural analysis, women’s reproductive health care, feminist opposition to the sex trade, the importance of nonviolent action in building a culture of resistance, women’s writing, organizing and grassroots activism, lesbian-only spaces, consciousness-raising, women in leadership, the threat of gender, misogynoir, reigniting women’s community, the importance of ethical communication, waking up from gender, and legislative advocacy. And, of course, we had our wonderful performance of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.
We didn’t cover everything, but we covered a lot. Women are already talking about all of the fantastic discussions we might have at another future convention. So, if the goal was to reignite the women’s liberation movement, from what I have heard coming from the panel table, and from my discussions with many of the attendees, I’m declaring that goal accomplished and that victory achieved. Congratulations to all of the amazing women who participated.
We have a lot of work to do, and a lot of determined women here who I’m sure will step up to the plate. And finally, we’re going to win.
Safe travels, women. We’ll be in touch soon.
Let’s go.
If you haven’t, please consider signing the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights. You can find the U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International here.
Check out my book The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls, also available on Audible.