'It's a pretty cool role to play,' she says. Last year, this included making a video for the AFLP4CA, which represented more than 260 AFL men's and women's players, who want to do more to tackle climate change. What is my wish for women in sport in 2022?Īs a videographer, her role in the initiative involves applying her video skill set and knowledge to amplify the message of the climate action group.North Melbourne's first ever AFLW draft pick, Daisy Bateman, has joined the AFL for Climate Action Movement (AFLP4CA), led by ex-North players Jasper Pittard and Tom Campbell, contributing her expertise to the cause. We wanted to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution that Australian female athletes have in creating a more sustainable future by profiling some of the incredible work of some athletes in the climate space.Īs surfer Belinda Baggs says (profiled below), 'many sporting stars are heroes to their community - we all need to use our voices and start talking about the issue - making a stand and getting the broader audience onboard.' Chaired by Amna Sarwar 16.00 - 16.The UN's theme for International Women's Day this year is ' Changing climates: Equality today for a sustainable tomorrow' and aims to recognise the contribution of women and girls who are leading the charge on climate change action. Protective and supportive workplace policy is therefore needed in solidarity with people who are working with endometriosis, as well as other menstrual health conditions that are also largely dismissed within the workplace.

Current knowledge on the experience of working with the condition has largely been neglected within organization studies, as have the support interventions for people to remain and thrive in the work they have planned and often trained endlessly for. As such, people with endometriosis may be better suited to, and are often turning to, precarious work but this can create a double bind of its own and make them feel even less supported and protected. People working with the condition must often learn to navigate the embodied precarity of endometriosis which can be challenging within traditional organisational structures and cultures where they are expected to minimise symptoms and conform to productive worker expectations. Endometriosis is an unpredictable condition that can flare at any time, without notice of length or severity. This seminar, by OUBS academic Vickie Williams, explores the experiences of people working with endometriosis across several industries within the UK. Working with endometriosis: Encounters with precarity and policy as solidarity The conference, taking place on Tuesday 8 March, was co-organised by GOP (gendered organisational practice), a research cluster within The Open University Business School, and GENIES (gender, intimacies, sexuality), a research stream that sits between the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business and Law at the OU, promising plenty of diverse and rich perspectives. The conference aims to extend conversations on existing challenges and opportunities while also giving rise to new possibilities.Ī wide variety of academics and practitioners came together to discuss the importance of solidarities in an inclusive and purposeful manner. Following in their footsteps, we are moving the conversation and practices further. This one-day online interdisciplinary conference brings together diverse voices on the complexities, complications, and configurations of working with and across intersections and the dilemmas that feminist activism and praxis present.

Throughout history, feminists have been forging solidarity to disrupt sites of power and privilege, redraw the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion and access to resources. This is particularly important now against the backdrop of state and organisational responses to Covid-19, the impact of Brexit, but also against stubborn work practices that make certain bodies matter more than others, be it at work, home, or the street.

Acknowledging the challenges posed by the persistence of gender and racial inequalities fuelled by ever more precarious economies and societies, we came together to discuss the possibilities of multiplying solidarities, at work and beyond.

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