Meta<\/a>, the parent company of the two social media sites, why its publicity had been blocked, it was told \u201cany mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf\u2019s work] are usually classified as \u2018social topics\u2019 by our automatic system\u201d and are filtered out.<\/p>\nTo resolve the situation, Meta recommended removing \u201ckey words\u201d so that the text doesn\u2019t appear to encourage activism.<\/p>\n
A promotion for A Room of One\u2019s Own at Teatre Raval. Photograph: supplied<\/p>\n
The theatre published a statement saying: \u201cWe feel obliged to speak up about the injustice and violation of our rights by not being allowed to promote a feminist work, specifically a work by Virginia Woolf who was born in 1882.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat can we do? As a theatre we have to publicise our activities \u2026 and we have to make use of social media so that people are aware of cultural activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The stage production, a one-woman show starring Clara Sanchis, is an adaptation of a series of talks Woolf gave in 1928 at Newnham and Girton, which were then the only two colleges at Cambridge University that admitted women.<\/p>\n
The talks were published as an essay the following year on the situation of women in society and their access to education. Women had been admitted to study at Cambridge since 1869 but weren\u2019t allowed to graduate with a degree until 1948.<\/p>\n
Woolf said that in order to produce high-quality fiction, \u201ca woman must have money and a room of her own\u201d. She wrote in her diary that she expected to be attacked as a feminist for what she had written.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know if the publicity has been rejected because of the name of Virginia Woolf or because of the word feminism, or both,\u201d Sanchis told La Vanguardia newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn any case, it\u2019s a way of erasing from the map advances that have taken centuries to achieve. We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is. It\u2019s bias and manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf\u2019s A Room of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}