Author: Jenny Griffiths

  • Celebrating The Women Who’ve Stood Up For Women’s Rights

    Jenny Reilly Back in 2023 I commenced a project to celebrate some of the women in the UK who have stood up for women’s sex-based rights. I was inspired by the banners created by women’s suffrage campaigners and decided to produce textile art in celebration of these women. Joan McAlpine Whilst an SNP MSP, Joan…

  • We Stand With Sandie Peggie

    We’re now a week on from the end of Part 1 of Peggie v Fife Health Board/ Dr Upton.  I don’t think anyone knew quite how significant this would be.  It has captured the zeitgeist in a way that none of us saw coming.  It’s being discussed in hairdressers, in Tesco (other supermarkets are available),…

  • Creative Accounting

    On Saturday the 23rd of March Women Won’t Wheesht were proud to present our Creative Accounting exhibition at the Alloa Women’s Festival. Creative accounting documented the creative methods women in Scotland campaigned for their sex based rights in a difficult and oppressive environment. Women from across Scotland sent photographs of the stickers, ribbons and slates…

  • Scottish Prisons Transgender Policy

    Residents in Scotland, add your signature to our letter asking Angel Constance to overturn the Scottish Prison Service Transgender Management Policy. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkEQ_FARlDSfVSihzyMBNU19000xmnB_UVJjQZADFxqMWjwg/viewform?usp=sharing Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice & Home Affairs, Angela Constance, to overturn the Scottish Prison Service Transgender Management Policy. We the undersigned call upon the Cabinet Secretary for Justice & Home…