{"id":2265,"date":"2010-06-19T05:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2010-06-19T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T21:30:24","slug":"for-rebellious-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/for-rebellious-ruth\/","title":{"rendered":"For rebellious Ruth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just to reassure Ruth \u00a0after her comment on yesterday’s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In 1991, I was removed by police from\u00a0a public bar<\/a> in Swansea, Tasmania, making the front page of the\u00a0Mercury<\/a>. I was having a quiet drink with some other women the night after the\u00a0Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission<\/a> had ruled that the\u00a0Returned Services League <\/a> could not legally continue to exclude women from the bar. The RSL President was drunk and belligerent and removing\u00a0us\u00a0was how the police kept the peace.<\/p>\n

The back story is that the local hairdresser was asked by a couple of female travellers where they could get a meal in the town. When she told them to go to the RSL, they told her that they had tried that, but they had been kicked out of the bar for being women. She told them that that really couldn’t be so and tried to be served there herself. Two or three actions in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission, and several years, \u00a0later she had a ruling that the club had to serve women.<\/p>\n

I was invited because I was a member of the Women’s Action Group, a feminist collective that met to do womanly things like get kicked out of bars. I had been in Hobart for just two weeks at the time and gave my mum a fright when I sent a copy of the paper back home. Two months later on International Women’s Day, I was standing in a giant tea cup sculpture made of hay, on the back of a ute parked at Parliament House, \u00a0speaking through a megaphone on the topic “Don’t let them tell you it’s over …. “.<\/p>\n

I didn’t *deliberately* put my hands behind my back in the photo to make it look like I was handcuffed. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Blog Post 20 the 30 posts in 30 days<\/a> challenge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just to reassure Ruth \u00a0after her comment on yesterday’s post. In 1991, I was removed by police from\u00a0a public bar in Swansea, Tasmania, making the front page of the\u00a0Mercury. I was having a quiet drink with some other women the night after the\u00a0Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission had ruled that the\u00a0Returned Services League could…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-Ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}