This week we look at Repealing the 8th Amendment in Ireland and read about one Irish woman’s thoughts on how she thinks it will be ‘righting a historical wrong’. Afterwards VERVE Operative Chanju Mwanza celebrates 5 women throughout history who used their intelligence to enhance society and refused to play dumb in order for men to feel less threatened. Moving on we read through USA VERVE Operative Claire Ryder’s article on the pivotal movement #freeblackmamas, and how you can support it and the Black Women who’ve been wrongly imprisoned. Finally, we read VERVE freelance writer Laura Hely Hutchinson’s imperative article on Channel 4’s toxic and transphobic show ‘Genderquake’, and why Feminism has no room for it.

Episode Notes:
https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/why-repealing-the-eighth-amendment-is-righting-a-historical-wrong - Article ‘Why Repealing The Eighth Amendment Is Righting A Historical Wrong’ by Badass Feminist Olivia Lynch- Kelly

https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/a-feminist-history-of-women-who-didnt-play-dumb Article ‘A Feminist History of Women Who Didn’t Play Dumb’ by VERVE Operative Chanju Mwanza

More Info on Marie Curie go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

More Info on Benazir Bhutto here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto

More Info on Grace Hopper here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

More on Shirley Ann Jackson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson

More Info on Maria Beasley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Beasley

https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/freeblackmamas Article ‘#FreeBlackMamas’ by VERVE Operative USA & Humanitarian Activist Claire Ryder

First article Claire Ryder mentions: http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/black-women-incarceration-mothers-day-bailout-cash-bail-20180507.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&mobi=true

More on Mama’s Day Bailout here: http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/black-women-incarceration-mothers-day-bailout-cash-bail-20180507.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&mobi=true

https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/genderquake-why-theres-no-room-for-transphobia-in-feminism Article ‘Genderquake: Why There’s No Room for Transphobia in Feminism’ by Freelance VERVE Writer Laura Hely Hutchinson

More on Genderquake here: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/genderquake

OFCOM article on 200 complaints: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/genderquake-the-debate-ofcom-complaints_uk_5af7f500e4b0e57cd9fa3e19

Article on anti-transgender bathroom hysteria: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11592908/transgender-bathroom-laws-rights

Why Helen Webberley refused to go onto Genderquake: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trans-genderquake-debate-channel-4-germaine-greer-munroe-bergdorf-lgbt-rights-a8341776.html