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Clare B Dimyon MBE MSc Mathematical Analyst on A380 'superjumbo' [Heavy duty Excel]
1984-1998 | #MeToo 1998 | 2007-13 | 2014-2024
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The many faces of... Clare B Dimyon
MBE [LGB-t], MSc Engineering academic - materials BEd - technical teacher/lecturer & amateur Quaker historian.
2007-2013 PRIDE Solidarity - PRIDE in central & eastern Europe [Gallery]
Quaker historian who discovered E Fry was all about sex segregation in 2018 en route for St Petersburg.
2019 Vienna PRIDE
Polymath: Teacher, university lecturer, mathematical analyst, aerospace engineer & activist for human rights and responsibilities
MBE [LGB-t] for human rights & responsibilities of 'lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender' people
the 1st honour in British history explicitly for 'lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender' people
23 Aug 2023: LGB-t ie for the 1.55% of transgender people (ONS #Census2021) who are same-sex attracted & 1.55% bisexual
MSc Mathematical Analysis of Carbon Fibre Components on A380 Superjumbo | BEd Teacher - Woodwork, Metalwork & Graphics
Autism - HIGH Functioning
- exceptionally strong skills in numerical and logical processing - classic presentation in female individuals.
Equality Act 2010: Part II Chapter 2 Section 20 Paragraphs 1-3
"Reasonable adjustment for dis-ABILITY" aka autistic superpower. ;-)
Rape & Other Sexual Offending (RAOSO) - in case it can help.
Independent (9 Oct 2016) To schoolgirl in Oxford, here are some thoughts from a teacher who is a rape survivor
Facebook BBC (13 Oct 2016) Oxford: Rape survivor reads teen victim letter
BBC (12 Oct 2016) Oxford: Rape survivor reads teen victim letter
...and other joins...
2024
Royal Statistical Society Conference - attendee (Brighton)
2023
Royal Statistical Society Conference - attendee (Harrogate)
2022
Some of the best work has no link!
2021
St Albans Historical & Archaeological Society (2 March 2021) 1817-40 Quaker Service in Russia: Draining the marshes of St Petersburg
2020
2 Dec 2020 Шушары — любимое место английских квакеров.| Shushary - beloved place of English Quakers
LGBT History Month (Brighton & Hove) Lives of Dr Hilda Clark & Edith Pye - Famine, War & Kindertransport
100 Years of Quaker Lesbian Pride & Awe – Dr Hilda Clark & Edith Pye LH OBE, with Clare B Dimyon MBE, 3.05pm. In 1919 Dr Hilda Clark, a member of the Friends’ War Victims Relief Committee, arrived to assess a famine in Vienna, joined by her life-long companion Edith Pye, a nurse and midwife. Throughout the war they worked to save lives and relieve suffering in a way consistent with their pacifist Quaker beliefs.
1969- 2019
Jo Wadsworth (9 Dec 2019) Hospital apologises to rape survivor for branding her request for same-sex breast-screening medic as transphobic
Hellen, Nicholas (8 Dec 2019). "Patient branded transphobic after asking for female medic". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
PRIDE at 50!
28 June 2019 Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York City - doing the count down...obviously!
15 June 2019 Vienna PRIDE
Talk to Viennese lesbians about Dr Hilda Clark & Edith Pye & Bertha Bracey (arrived 1921) and their service in Vienna 1919-23.
Claire Heuchan 12 June 2019 The Craftivism of Clare B Dimyon After Ellen
2018
Object UK 3 Oct 2018: https://objectnow.org/2018-10-7-gender-self-id-listen-to-female-survivors/
Russian Heritage Conference 2018 - will need to dig that out!
5 May 2018 "Shushary will one day be the most beautiful places in St Peterburg" Conference marking Bicentenary of the start of the draining of the St Peterburg Marshes in the main site of St Petersburg University.
31 March 2018 "Shushary will one day be the most beautiful places in St Peterburg" Conference marking Bicentenary of the start of the draining of the St Peterburg Marshes in the Shushary branch of St Petersburg University.
28 March 2018 Rossiya A319 ran over ground worker's foot on push back at Gatwick - Clare B Dimyon the only Brit on board!
4 March 2018 Novichok poisoning incident - Salisbury. Departure of most western embassies.
2017
3 Dec 2017: 1817-1917-2017 Constructive Revolution in St Petersburg - Anglo-Russian Success Bicentenary of English Quaker arrival to drain the St Petersburg Marshes [Russian Heritage Conference]
3 Dec 2017: 1698-1817 Constructive Evolution - Positive relationships between English Quakers and Russian Governments and people [Russian Heritage Conference]
15 July 2017 Arrival at Quaker Burial Ground in Shushary 200 years to the day since Daniel Wheeler arrived on his scoping mission for the drainage of the St Petersburg marshes at request of the Emperor Alexander I. Six week survey of all the areas in Ochta, Volkov and... "Shushary" drained by the crew of 32 Quakers, directing a lot of "serfs" ie slaves. The Emperor against the enslavement of black Africans but conflicted on the freedom of largely 'white' Russian serfs who belonged in law to their masters. Young Russian journalist, "Can you say this "Shushary" in this sweet English Quaker way?"
2016
NYT (5 Oct 2017) Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades
Independent (9 Oct 2016) To schoolgirl in Oxford, here are some thoughts from a teacher who is a rape survivor
Facebook BBC (13 Oct 2016) Oxford: Rape survivor reads teen victim letter
BBC (12 Oct 2016) Oxford: Rape survivor reads teen victim letter
Clare B Dimyon (15 April 2016 ) Protection of the Light - an account of life-threatening violence for rape at Greenham Common The Friend.
2015
IICSA 9 July 2015 Survivors and Victims Consultative Panel announced
Suggested Survivors and 'Victims' Consultative 'Committee' to PA of Caroline Lucas MP
Hansard (4 Feb 2015) Volume 592 Column 285 Child Sexual Abuse (Independent Panel Inquiry)
Theresa May (Home Sec.) on ‘survivors’, ‘victims’ & term ‘historic’ response to Caroline Lucas MP.
2014
9 Nov 2014 Conversation on importance of word "Survivor" with Caroline Lucas MP on return from Remembrance Day in Brighton (see 4 Feb 2015)
Kyiv Marathon 27 April 2014 "Donetsk is WELSH" | <Донецьк валлійський> as I crossed the finish line... I arrived in fancy dress St Georgina with her not very homophobic dragon, to learn that wearing fancy dress to marathons and runs isn't a Ukrainian 'thing'. Too late to change! I have a strict policy of never running except when I am invariably late for a bus or train.
Sochi Olympics (7 Feb 2014) Sending of copies of peace posters (arrived Greenham Common 1985) from School #12, Anapa | StudyLib.ru
Олимпийские игры в Сочи (7 февраля 2014 г.) Отправка копий плакатов мира российскими детьми из школы 12 Анапы (прибыли в Гринхэм Коммон в 1985 г.) | StudyLib.ru
2013
Baltic PRIDE - Vilnius
Clare B Dimyon MBE condensed the English text, working with young Lithuanians and Latvians who did the translation work.
Lietuviška versija Hārvijs Bernards Milks
Latviešu versija Harvis Milkas
28 July 2013 Baltic PRIDE - Vilnius 2013
Tracing the Lithuanian roots of Harvey Milk | Harvis Milkas | Hārvijs Bernards Milks
Mark172430 13 October 2013 St Paul’s Act of Remembrance - Commemoration of Ian Baynham
2012
UEFA2012: Celebrating PRIDE in Ukraine and Poland
9 Sept 2012 Southwark LGBT: Just back from PRIDE Solidarity with Ukraine - Clare B Dimyon MBE
28 June 2012 Donetsk PRIDE 2012 celebrated by a select few... 1991 PRIDE (London) t-shirt
18 June 2012 Kharkiv was fun - link missing.
13 June 2012 Soccer fans fly Rainbow flag in Kyiv at EUFA 2012 Football Championships
May 2012 4th Mikolayiv Rainbow Spring - LIGA
20 May 2012 Waited in vain for instructions for meeting point for Kyiv PRIDE 2012
18 May 2012 Speaker at Kyiv PRIDE Conference
17 May 2012 Visit to meet Leigh Turner UK Ambassador in Kyiv - letter of support to take to 4th Mikolayiv Rainbow Spring
25 April 2012 Another launch of Rainbow Tour of Ukraine for UEFA 2012 - You can't have too many launches.
2011
23 Oct 2011 Independent on Sunday Pink List 2010 #27 Clare B Dimyon MBE
10-14 Aug 2011: Prague Pride 2011: buďte barevní a nebojte se - witnessed/participated in roar in PRIDE office as message arrived from Martina! (I'd been angling for weeks for that via contacts in US).
Supporting Estonian LGBT who... didn't want to parade... which was not understood by LGBT internationally!
06-11 June 2011 Festival of Baltic PRIDE - Tallinn gets underway
4 June 2011 Zuzana Uličianska Homosexualita nie je v Desatore SME
Obama's PRIDE Speech with Estonian sub-titles - at direct request of Clare B Dimyon "Those who understand English least, need this most." [If you can understand/speak English you have access to everything online. If you don't resources can be very limited.]
10-28 April 2011 St Petersburg, Russia to participate in Day of Silence (Dzien Molchana) Russian LGBT very frightened but...doing it anyway!
1 April 2011 "Лесбиянка Британской империи" открыла в Таллинне фотовыставку | Карина Габазова | PostTimesES
1 April 2011 "Лесбиянка Британской империи" открыла в Таллинне фотовыставку | Карина Габазова | PostTimesES
UK in Estonia: 31 March - 14 April 2011 British Embassy presents an exhibition of photos PRIDE Solidarity - "PRIDE in central & Eastern Europe" an exhibition of photos by Clare B Dimyon MBE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Estonia
26/04/2011 Судьбоносное мгновение: «Русский язык дал мне vsjo!» | | "Russian language gave me everything!" | Аналитика
Pink News (3 March 2011) British Ambo marks end of LGBT History Month by visiting National Library of Poland to view Radclyffe Hall’s ground breaking 1928 lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness published in Polish in Lvov (Lviv) before WW2. British lesbian Clare B Dimyon alerted the British embassy after Lesbian conference in Brighton in which a contributor referred to a lesbian who said the memory of this book helped keep her alive in Concentration Camps 1939-45. Thank you Ric Todd..and for rainbow flag at British embassy on 9 June 2010!
“I had a chance to read The Well of Loneliness that had been translated into Polish before I was taken into the camps.
I was a young girl at the time, around 12 or 13, and one of the ways I survived in the camp was by remembering that book.
I wanted to live long enough to kiss a woman.”
2010
3 Nov 2010 Lesbian activist receives MBE Pink News - as per media release
1 Aug 2010 #63 on Pink List 2010 Clare B Dimyon MBE Independent on Sunday
LGBT History Month (7 July 2010) Czech PRIDE in Brno...and shame
https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/2010/06/support-czech-pride-in-brno/
2010 Birthday Honours
Birthday Honours List (11 June 2010) Diplomatic Service & Overseas List
22 May 2010 Dúhový PRIDE v Bratislavie
My sme tu doma! | We ARE at home!
Som na vas taka HRDA! | I am SO proud of you.
Dúhový Pride Bratislava máj 2010
AND Hillary Clinton didnt confuse us with Slovenija!
(20 June 2010 Advocate ) In Slovakia, at that nation's first ever Pride Parade ...
last month, our charge, Keith Eddins, marched to represent the United States. There were anti-gay protestors who became violent and the police used tear gas, which our charge and other diplomats were exposed to - a quite unpleasant experience, but in service to a just cause.
Clare met Keith Eddins at British embassy shindig - a pre-PRIDE in late summer 2009.
2009
June 2009 Dinner at UK Ambassadorial Residence in Kyiv
Emmeline Saunders (6 May 2009) Brighton woman flying the Rainbow flag across Europe
PRIDE Solidarity Tour
Romanian > Moldova > Bucharest GayFest > Baltic PRIDE -Riga, Latvija > Warsaw, Poland, Tabor, Czech Republic, Sofia, Bulgaria, Skopje, North Macedonia, Ukrainian LGBT Conference, Kyiv - Nash Svit, Budapest, Hungary
and last but not least
Bratislava for a lovely Rainbow Cycle ride.
2008
10 June 2008 FCO Flying Rainbow Flag is a decision for each Embassy Pink News
6 June 2018 Rainbow flag at British embassy, Warsaw. Clare went to thank the official who replied "I have never been so proud to be British.
3 June 2008 Rainbow flag flies at British Embassy in Riga for PRIDE Pink News
2 June 2008 Rainbow flag at British embassy in Riga after
Embassy Reception (30 or 31 May) at Clare made a joke about seeing rainbow flags at embassies and gave one each to ambassadors of UK Richard Moon, Sweden, the Netherland(s) and Denmark. Dutch ambo not happy about receiving smaller flag than UK & Sweden...but I had 4 flags, 2 large and 2 small, no diplomatic sleight intended. After she finished speaking the British ambassador Richard Moon approached her and asked "So when are you coming?" Slightly astonished Clare replied: "Monday 4pm afternoon tea?"
10 June 2008 https://www.thepinknews.com/2008/06/10/flying-the-rainbow-flag-up-to-each-british-embassy/ Pink News
8 June 2008 https://pluralsg.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/uk-embassies-fly-the-rainbow-flag-to-mark-riga-and-warsaw-pride-days/ Plural SG
6 June 2008 https://www.thepinknews.com/2008/06/06/rainbow-flag-to-fly-over-second-british-embassy/ Pink News
3 June 2008 https://www.thepinknews.com/2008/06/03/rainbow-flag-flies-over-british-embassy-in-riga/ Pink News
2007
Riga PRIDE...
CV
2006-2009
Royal Academy of Engineering: Engineers for Society - to attract young women and young men outside the classic stereotype.
2005
30 April 2005 Rainbowed European flag for not quite wedding in advance of Civil Partnerships on 1 Dec 2005.
1998-2000
1998-2000 Masters Manufacturing & Management Information Systems (MANIS) UWE Bristol
Dissertation: Cost Comparisons of carbon-fibre aerospace components - a lot of Excel.
1998
5 May 1998 #MeToo moment
1993-98
Secondary School DT teacher in Brighton & Hove - roped in for Maths but mainly woodwork, metalwork, plastics and ...graphics!
1991-93 University of Wolverhampton
BEd - Design Technology
1987-89 Rycotewood College, Thame, Oxon.
HNC Fine Furniture-Making
City & Guilds Fine Furniture-Making
1984 -87 Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
1986
Lesbian Strength - Oxford: Lead co-ordinator, funding application, overall organiser [records not yet digitised]
1985
London PRIDE - the first
1984
19 April 1984 Life-threatening physical assault including strangulation, in order to rape.
Rebecca Johnson (22 Nov 2023) Chatham House Date with history: What we Greenham Women achieved
Imperial War Museum The women who took on the British government's nuclear programme
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