It was about six weeks ago that Holly Lawford-Smith first noticed the posters and stickers around campus. She has now lodged a complaint with WorkSafe Victoria.
as a “serious and academic representation of this school of feminist thought”.
Fight Transphobia UniMelb does not claim to speak for all transgender students at the University of Melbourne, much less all students. On a day this masthead visits the campus, PhD student Emma Baillie is quietly working her way across University Square, pulling down posters as she comes across them. She is 53, has spent many years at university as a student and occasional tutor and seen countless student campaigns. She says there is something unusually personal about this one.
Other academics are worried that if the university doesn’t stare down the campaign against Lawford-Smith, they could be next.The campaign against Lawford-Smith - and the University of Melbourne’s response to it - are being closely watched by feminist academics in Britain. Kathleen Stock, a gender-critical philosopher whoat the University of Sussex following a three-year push by student activists for her to be sacked, said the campaign against Lawford-Smith was very similar to the one she faced.
The University of Melbourne and Lawford-Smith have very different views on whether the university capitulated or is holding firm in the face of the campaign against her. which adopted language used at the rally by neo-Nazis to describe trans people, was seized upon as evidence of an alliance between TERFs and the far right.
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