Education for Women's Liberation: Joanna Cherry MP KC (UCL, 4 February 2023)

Joanna Cherry KC is the MP for Edinburgh Southwest and Chair of the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. She was the SNP’s Spokesperson on Justice and Home Affairs from 2015-2021. In 2019 she led the successful ‘Cherry Case’ against Boris Johnson’s unlawful prorogation of the UK Parliament. She was also a co-litigant in the case against the UK Government at the EU Court of Justice, which established that Article 50 could be unilaterally revoked. Joanna was called to the bar in 1995 and took silk in 2009. From 2003-2008 she served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Government. From 2008-2011 she served as Crown Counsel and was one of the first specialist sex crimes prosecutors in Scotland’s pioneering National Sex Crimes Unit.

She spoke at Education for Women's Liberation, a day of feminist thought and women’s activism, organised by UCL Women’s Liberation SIG and WPUK. Building on the highly successful Women’s Liberation 2020 conference, the conference brought together feminist activists, students, academics, writers, politicians and women’s organisations.

Focusing on education in feminism and women’s lives, the conference addressed interconnected themes including: women’s voices in education; sexual harassment in schools and universities; the history of women’s access to education in local and global contexts; the ways in which women’s entrance into education and research has changed workplaces and academic disciplines; the impact of gendered stereotypes in educational spaces, and sex and relationship education in schools.

[Deb_Downes]

What an excellent presentation, thank you :)