Fawcett and Wilde Vs The Sun: 1 year on

Fawcett and WILDE Vs The Sun:1 year on was an In person event on 14th August at Westworks Studio, White City Place

In July 2023 we made history, as IPSO upheld our complaint on the basis of sexism for the first time!  The deeply misogynistic and sexist article in the Sun, written by Jeremy Clarkson about Meghan Markle recieved 25,100 complaints and a year on our anti Misogyny work has never been so prevalent.

Our Zero Misogyny Pledge was signed by over 250 candidates in the lead up to the General Election, whilst after decades of campaigning, the recognition of misogyny as a hate crime from 4 political parties is a significant step forward for women's safety and dignity. 

Join us as we celebrate the power and impact we can have when we come together to stand up against misogyny and rally around the challenges that remain

About the event 

Join us for speeches, panel discussion, food and drinks.

Featuring: 

• Key note speech from Wilde Foundation CEO,  Rasheda Malcolm  
   
• Discussion panel and Q&A from leading writers, authors and social change experts 

Featuring:

Chair and MC: Fawcett CEO Jemima Olchwaski

• Sinai Fleary, News and Features Journalist,The Voice
• Sue Tibballs CEO, Sheila McKechnie Foundation
• Foluke Taylor, Writer, therapist, teacher and Co-Founder of Protect Black Women.
• Marisa Bate, Feminist Journalist and Author

About our speakers

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Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm,
Rasheda is an Author, Playwright, Journalist, Writing Coach, Festival Director, and Radio Presenter, with a passion for empowering women and girls creatively.

Rasheda is the author of two novels, Swimming With Fishes, published in 2017 which had its audio rights bought by Danish Publisher, Saga Egmont, and Love Again, published in 2020, one of the Jacaranda #Twentyin2020 Authors initiative.

She is also the co-founder and CEO of The WILDE (Women In Literature Development Empowerment) Foundation, a women’s and girls’ charity that encourages victims and survivors into influencers by providing a creative space which enables and empowers women to express themselves by scribing their stories, poems and spoken word that one day could become another woman’s survival guide.

Jemima Olchwaski 
Jemima is the CEO of the Fawcett Society. She is a social policy expert with 15 years' experience working on issues around social justice and women’s rights. Her career has spanned national charities, local government and a think tank, working to tackle inequalities and improve life chances.

Jemima was previously CEO for Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk. There she led campaigns on supporting survivors of abuse, gendered responses to women’s mental health and the connections between violence against women and girls and contact with the criminal justice system.

She was previously Head of Policy and Insight at the Fawcett Society where she led projects such as Sex and Power, Strategies for Success and work on Gender Pay Gap reporting. She has also held roles at the London Borough of Newham and the Fabian Society.

Sinai Fleary
Sinai Fleary qualified as a journalist from Britain’s number one journalism school, News Associates, in 2016.

She has written articles for The Independent, The Voice Newspaper, The HuffPost UK, The Gleaner, South West Londoner, Pride Magazine, Gal-Dem Magazine and others.

Sinai has also spoken on issues relating to Race, Windrush and Black Britain, on BBC Radio Kent, Amazon HQ, BBC 1Xtra Talks and TRT World.

Sinai is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief at Jus’ Jah Magazine – a print and digital magazine and platform that is dedicated to promoting the Rastafari community and Reggae music globally

Sue Tibballs
Sue is a charity leader, campaigner and commentator who has worked in the social change sector for approaching thirty years. CEO of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation since January 2016, Sue is a leading thinker and writer on civil society, campaigning and social change.
 
Previously she was CEO of Women in Sport, where she oversaw a spectrum of campaigns aimed at unlocking the potential of women’s sport. She worked for The Body Shop in the late 90’s where she was responsible for the global roll out of the pioneering Ruby campaign, which first made the connection between body image and self-esteem. In her twenties, Sue co-founded the Women's Communication Centre which hosted the high profile What Women Want campaign. 
 
Sue was awarded an OBE for ‘services to sport’ in the 2014 New Year’s Honour’s list and has an Honorary Degree from Liverpool Edge Hill University for ‘services to women’s health’. She is a former trustee and Chair of Fawcett, a former Chair of campaigning platform 38 Degrees.
 
Foluke Taylor
Foluke is a co-founder of Protect Black Women- an organisation dedicated to supporting Black women in the UK facing racial trauma, misogynoir, discrimination and adversity.

She is a writer, therapist, teacher and doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths University of London where her research focuses on writing in Black feminist contexts as creative social practice toward abolitionist therapeutics.

She spent a decade living in The Gambia (doing some adult growing up) before returning to London where she is currently based. She is author of How the Hiding Seek (2018) and Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room published in 2023 by W.W. Norton in New York and London.

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