Just when you thought Glastonbury couldn't get any better, the UK's largest festival has said it's set to introduce a women-only venue called The Sisterhood that's open to 'all people that identitfy as women'.
According to the organisers, The Sisterhood is set to be housed in the festival's Shangri-La area and is described as a 'revolutionary clubhouse' and an 'intersectional, queer, trans and disability-inclusive space'. It's open to and staffed entirely by people who identify as women.
According to The Sisterhood's
, the venue is set to hold workshops, talks, music, performance and dance parties that celebrate what it means to be a women in 2016.
'Reject the Patriarchy. Join the Sisterhood. Party on.' The Organisers say. '[We] believe that women only spaces are necessary in a world that is still run by and designed to benefit mainly men,' they continue, citing the gender pay gap, cuts to domestic violence services and sex worker rights.
Unsurprsingly, some men have struggled with the concept. Fathers For Justice have Tweeted 'GLASTONBURY GOES SEXIST' whilst @Clem_Fandango said 'Groan. Glastonbury has been largely irrelevant for some time. This is the final nail...'. @JN_Rydell said, 'SHAME on Glastonbury'. @LukePascoe1 says, 'So there's a women's only stage as glasto yeah, imagine if it was men's only they'd start cutting feminism quotes into their arms.'
Last year, there were a number of articles citing a growing problem of sexual assault at festivals and last year at Glastonbury alone, three sexual offences were reported.
Women deserve to have a safe space wherever they go; a space free from judgement, a place free from worry. Bravo to the organisers of Glastonbury and The Sisterhood for giving them one.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.