FACEBOOK POSTING RULES

Code of Conduct for Facebook Page:

We are not tolerant of intolerance

Anything that is deliberately sexist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, whorophobic, ableist, body shaming or otherwise discriminatory is not welcome on this page and will be deleted.

Non-compatiable Ideologies

We are an intersectional feminist society. Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists are asked not to join as their beliefs are not compliant with our safe space policy. Similarly, anyone who does not uphold or support the goals of feminism in establishing equality between men and women will be asked to leave.

We will not tolerate rape apologists or apologists for intersectional discrimination. Posting or facebook liking such a post will result in the respective parties being deleted from the group until their actions are discussed by the committee.

Privileged parties, please don’t derail discussion

We recognise that people often have forceful opinions, but we would ask that privileged voices (i.e. those who aren’t part of the oppressed group in the current discourse) should not be the loudest and that they defer to the experiences of those in the group in question. This is of particular relevance when it comes to derailment, which is where the topic of discussion is diverted to another issue or the people (and/or their feelings + views) are trivialised.

If someone has called you out for being privaledged please listen to them rather than get angry/dismissive.

Please use Trigger Warnings

Trigger warnings are incredibly important and often misunderstood, so we wanted to clear this up. A lot of people who have suffered traumatic experiences (such as rape, child abuse or eating disorders, amongst others) may experience a strong, damaging reaction from reading or viewing content relating to that experience.

As a society we want to create a safe space for those identifying as female or femme to share their experiences and discuss feminist issues. Part of this is helping them avoid their triggers. This can be done pretty simply with trigger warnings; when you are posting something that contains a potentially triggering subject (e.g. an article featuring stories about self harm), above the content just post ‘TRIGGER WARNING: XXX’, where ‘XXX’ is the trigger (e.g self harm in this example). Please click here for futher guidance. Potential triggers include:

Abuse (physical, mental, emotional, sexual or financial), Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic violence, Eating disorders, Fat shaming, Paedophilia, Racism, Rape, Rape culture, Self harm, Slut shaming,Suicide, Transphobia, Victim blaming, Warfare

No spam

We’d ask that you avoid posting on subjects not relevant to the society or to feminism in general (within reason, anyway), and obvious spam posts will be deleted. We’re quite happy for other university societies to post details about their upcoming events on our page, however, if they feel that it’s relevant to our members.

Respect the Executive and fellow members

If you are asked to halt posting on a thread you must do so. The Executive may be dealing with a welfare situation and or the post may be inflammatory/triggering. If you fail to comply with the admins, it is our policy to delete you and then discuss further action as a committee. We occasionally ban members we feel are disruptive to our safe space policy or break our code of conduct.