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Sara Morrison v Belfast Film Festival
Sara Morrison used to be an inclusion and audience development co-ordinator working full time at Belfast Film Festival. She has an adult, trans-dentifying son. But she is a heretic. Because? “I just don’t want men in women’s spaces”, she says. It was expressing this sentiment in a public place (and criticising those who oppose it)…
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Morrison Loses Tribunal Claim
A former Inclusion/Audience Development Coordinator has lost her claim against Belfast Film Festival for discrimination, harassment and constructive dismissal. Sara Morrison was employed by the Belfast Film Festival (BFF) for more than four years between February2020 and November 2024, when she resigned. Her tribunal took place in November 2025 and was extensively covered by this…
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Morrison Judgment Delayed Again
“My life has been on hold – work, plans, the future. Everything…” Sara Morrison, whose legal case against the Belfast Film Festival is being backed by JK Rowling, has been told she will need to wait at least another month before getting a ruling. Morrison took Belfast Film Festival to a two-week employment tribunal in…
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Morrison: Written Closings
As subscribers to the GenderBlog newsletter will know – yesterday was the final day of Morrison v Belfast Film Festival at the Belfast Employment Tribunal. Sara Morrison has made a claim against her former employer, alleging discrimination for her gender-critical/sex-realist beliefs and constructive dismissal. In yesterday’s newsletter I laid out the closing oral submissions from…
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Morrison v Belfast Film Festival: Week 1
This employment tribunal is taking place at Killymeal House in Belfast. Sara Morrison is the Claimant. Belfast Film Festival (BFF) are the Respondent. Morrison is claiming discrimination against her for her gender critical (or as she prefers “sex realist”) views after she was socially cancelled for speaking at this Let Women Speak event (see 1hr…
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Belfast Film Festival: Written Closings
As subscribers to the GenderBlog newsletter will know – yesterday was the final day of Morrison v Belfast Film Festival at the Belfast Employment Tribunal. Sara Morrison has made a claim against her former employer, alleging discrimination for her gender-critical/sex-realist beliefs and constructive dismissal. In yesterday’s newsletter I laid out the closing oral submissions from…
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Tribunal bias claim: Panelist steps down
A member of the panel convened to decide the outcome of Sara Morrison’s discrimination claim against Belfast Film Festival has stepped down after Morrison’s legal team applied to have the entire judging panel removed. Professor Deborah Boyd voluntarily stepped down for health reasons after Morrison’s barrister Naomi Cunningham accused Boyd of bias and failing to…
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Depoliticising the Workplace
Tanya de Grunwald has a podcast strand called This Isn’t Working, in which she invites business leaders to consider employee activism and the vicissitudes of DEI. Her live events, under the banner This Is Working, are aimed at bringing business leaders together to discuss how organisations can move forward from where we are now. There…