{"id":4270,"date":"2024-02-23T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:23:06","slug":"international-womens-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2024\/02\/23\/international-womens-day-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"International Womens Day 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/BWroom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4271\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/BWroom-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/BWroom-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/BWroom.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This year we will be naming of the Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre in the Outreach Centre, Holyrood Campus on International Women\u2019s Day 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Please join me\u00a0 from 9.15-10.15 a.m. on Friday 8th March to honour Bessie Watson (1900-1992), Scotland\u2019s youngest suffragette.<\/p>\n<p>Bessie marched and played the bagpipes for the Women\u2019s Social and Political Union in the early 20th century, aged just nine. She continued to be involved in the suffrage movement throughout her childhood, piping outside Calton Jail to raise the morale of the imprisoned women. She went on to study French at the University of Edinburgh, and had a career teaching violin and modern languages across the city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/IWD204wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4272\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/IWD204wiki-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/IWD204wiki-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/IWD204wiki.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We will also be editing Wikipedia.\u00a0 to help write women onto Wikipedia as part of IWD 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Women in Red&#8221; &#8211; a Wikipedia editathon will celebrate the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women of Scotland (and around the world) missing from the world&#8217;s go-to site for information.<\/p>\n<p>This event will focus on the women activists, past and present, who have campaigned for women&#8217;s rights, education, universal suffrage and global justice around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Where and when \u2013 Friday 9<sup>th<\/sup> March, 1pm-4.30pm in Digital Scholarship Centre, Main Library<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-iwd2024-tickets-830317852047\">Book your spot via Eventbrite here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year we will be naming of the Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre in the Outreach Centre, Holyrood Campus on International Women\u2019s Day 2024. 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Bessie marched and played the bagpipes for the Women\u2019s Social and Political Union in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,478],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","tag-international-womens-day","tag-iwd2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}