The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht a book by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn. On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave ...

Order the #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht, edited by @susandalgety.bsky.social and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, from #OurFeministLibrary

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Free speech blow as national library bans book opposing gender self-ID Staff objected to including The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht in an exhibition, and the library’s boss was worried it would lose support from stakeholders

Joanna Cherry, who will be at #FiLiA2025, is quoted in this piece about the National Library of Scotland who bowed to pressure from their staff to 'ban' the #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht book #Booksky #BlueskyBooks

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“As an older woman, I can live with their condemnation because whatever I am, I am. There’s nothing they have that I need."

Excellent, with @johannlamont.bsky.social

#SexMatters #Scotland #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht

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"a very comprehensive & important historical document of the heroic battle for women’s rights...[it] should be a compulsory addition to any feminist bookshelf."

Our discussion / review of #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht is now available online.

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Three days to go to publication day for new updated paperback edition of #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht, just in time for #IWD2025.

Still as topical as ever. The stories of women who changed the face of Scottish politics, in their own words.

Preorder here www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Who-Wo...

@msjlindsay.bsky.social, who covered for Magi's absence at #FiLiA2023, also spoke at the online launch for the #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht, edited by @susandalgety.bsky.social & Lucy Hunter Blackburn

Watch the event, inc Jenny's contribution, below:

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“I won’t say a man is any type of woman. I won’t be forced to say women’s bodies don’t matter - aren’t matter…I won’t pretend woman is the sum total of the traits a man can emulate.” @Dis_Critic (on ‘X’) in #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht by
Susan Dalgety & Lucy Hunter Blackburn

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The Women Who Wouldn’t Shut Up A review of Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn’s ‘The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht’

On US publication day for #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht we couldn't have asked for a better review than this. Thank-you to Ben Appel. www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-women-...