UPDATE on Speakers List as of April 2nd, 2022

We regret to inform you that Kara Dansky and Dominique Christina are unable to come to Madison for our event. Jesika Gonzalez will join the other three speakers who remain the same; Lierre Keith, Jeanette Cooper, and Thistle Pettersen. More information about our current speakers’ list can be found on our Eventbrite page at this link.

January 8th, 2022 MADISON — The WLRN Collective invites you to a special LIVE event in Madison, Wisconsin, where WLRN was born!

We are witnessing the destruction of women’s basic human rights, across the culture in general and in the law in particular. The transgender movement would have us believe that sex does not exist as a material reality and should be replaced by the utterly incoherent concept of “gender identity.” They are winning. Women are losing our legal standing and every right that we have fought for, while most people have no idea that this is happening. Convicted rapists are being housed in women’s prisons and teenage boys are gaining entrance to girls’ bathrooms with predictable results. The “gender identity” movement is robbing women of the language we need to describe our bodies and our uniquely female experiences and, ultimately, the only word that correctly names us: women.

In August 2021, Madison activist Thistle Pettersen was cited with disorderly conduct with a hate crime enhancement for allegedly putting up a feminist sticker on the corner of Dayton and State Street. These charges had the potential to be counted as felonies. They ultimately were dismissed but it is deeply disturbing that the District Attorney would wield the power of the state against a lone citizen for political reasons. This is the power of the “gender identity” movement—and a chilling glimpse at its goals. If you care about women, free speech, civil rights, or the state of our democracy, join these five brave women as they explain what gender ideology is doing to women—and what we might do to fight back.

Thistle Pettersen is a singer-songwriter and radical feminist activist living and working in Madison, WI. Thistle is a founding member of Women’s Liberation Radio News (WLRN), a grassroots media collective that produces a monthly women’s news, analysis and music show. She will be telling her personal story of the years of harassment and bullying she has endured from “gender identity” activists.

Dominique Christina is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles in four years, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family’s legacy in the Civil Rights Movement and by the idea that words make worlds. She is the author of four books, including Anarcha Speaks which won the National Poetry Series Prize. Dominique’s work is largely autobiographical, rooted in the development of her own womanism and the trauma that concretized it.

Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for 40 years. She is the founder of WoLF (Women’s Liberation Front) and the author of seven books. She will be speaking on the origins of “gender ideology” and what we can do to stop it.

Kara Dansky is the president of the US chapter of the Women’s Declaration International. She previously served on the board of the Women’s Liberation front from 2016 to 2020 and is an attorney with a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She will be speaking on the erasure of women in the law.

Jeannette Cooper lost not just custody but all visitation with her daughter because she believes her child is a girl. Jeanette is a founding member of Partners for Ethical Care, a nonprofit focused on stopping the unethical treatment of children under the banner of gender identity affirmation. A radical feminist for 15 years, Jeannette writes about the possibilities of womanhood at deardaughterlovemom.com with the goal of gender abolition.

Join five brave women speaking out against the erosion of women’s rights under the assault of “gender ideology.”

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