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Ms Ara, 56, a former artist in residence at the V&A Museum, said she was not anti-trans, but felt women’s rights were ‘under attack’.
The university said Ms Ara’s appearance was one of a series of School of Arts events, adding: ‘The talk will go ahead in March.’
It comes days after Education Secretary Gavin Williamson warned universities to uphold freedom of speech.
Critics had a similar event pulled in November 2019 at Oxford Brookes University (pictured) after the feminist artist was accused of bigotry for sharing two tweets criticising moves to let people self-identify as women
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