Laura Bates is a best-selling author, keynote speaker and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. Her books include Everyday Sexism, Girl Up and Fix the System, Not the Women. Laura writes regularly for the New York Times, Guardian and others, and is a frequent media commentator and consultant for TV productions tackling issues around gender inequality.
She works closely with government, schools, businesses, police forces and bodies from the United Nations to the Council of Europe on sexism and inequality.
In recognition of Laura’s work surrounding sexism and gender inequality, she was awarded a British Empire Medal in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List and has been named Woman of the Year by Cosmopolitan, Red Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine. She is also an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Keynote speech focusing on online elements, including social media, filters and deepfake videos, how sexual harassment and abuse among young people is often tech-facilitated, online pornography and its impact on young people's relationships, radicalisation and grooming of young men into extremist misogyny, and how this connects to misogynistic 'influencers' like Andrew Tate.
The event will start with drinks from 1730 until 1800.
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