Events

For women in London it’s also worth checking out this list hosted by Women in London.

2010

January

• 14 January - Can You Hear Us: Women’s uncensored experiences and detention and deportation, Committee Room 5, House of Commons, 6.00pm - 8.00pm.


• 23 January - OBJECT AGM, Amnesty International, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A3EA, free to members (join here) or £7.50 non-members
  The AGM event will cover OBJECT’s work and future plans, introducing their trustees and staff. Attendees will have the chance to greet Fiona Mactaggart, MP, see ‘Hell de Jour’ (video of testimonies from women from the sex industry), and a showcase of female cabaret from Scary Little Girls productions. “Lunch, drink and cholcolates” provided. See the event flyer for more details.


• 26 January - Adventures in Menstruating, Sat Pal Ram room, University of Sheffield Students’ Union, 7.30pm
  Sheffield Fems and Chart Your Cycle present an evening of comedy, zines, poetry, menstrual history and debate for menstruators and non-menstruators alike. Students and non-students welcome, please email sheffieldfems[at]gmail.com so your name can be put on the guest list.


• 28 January - The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston, Women’s Library, London, 7.00pm, £10 or £8 concessions
  Bonnie Greer, Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Busby mark 50 years since the death of the author and anthropologist, one of the most significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

February

• Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans History Month takes place every year in February. It celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community and provides an opportunity to learn more about the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Britain and Northern Ireland.
  Click here to see the full list of events on the LGBT History Month website.


• 2 - 3 February - ‘In A Thousand Pieces’, The Carriage Works Theatre, Leeds, 8.00pm
  Feminist theatre company The Paper Birds present their award winning production exploring sex slavery in Britain.


• 4 February - Fawcett Feminist Firewalk, Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre, London E14
  Walk on fire for Fawcett! Join Fawcett and their supporters, including Oona King, Ken Livingstone and Tanika Gupta, for a sponsored firewalk! Sounds terrifying to us, but they promise you it’s “hugely empowering”. In any case, raising money for Fawcett is definintely worth doing. For more information, see their website.


• 10 February - Love on Trial, the revolutionary Valentine’s, The Resistance Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, 7.00pm-12.00am, £5 / £3
  A three-part discussion about love in 2010 bringing together activists, academics, authors and troublemakers, looking at the commercialisation of love and sex, the ways some forms of love are marginalised and the state’s role in monogamy.


• 11 - 19 February - “Roma London”, Mile End Park Art Pavilion, London, E3 4QY; 12pm - 6pm Part of the ‘Different Culture’ Photos project, the exhibition is a collaboration of young Roma women living in London and photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of the Children’s Society


• 13 February - A celebration of Roberta Cowell (an LGBT History Month 2010 event), Croydon, from 3.00pm
  See the Croydon LGBT website for full details.


• 13 - 20 February - FemMenstruation Week, Edinburgh
  The Edinburgh anarchafeminist kollective invites you to this exciting week starting heaving and ending light, this week-long exploration of menstruation will involve gigs, comedy, spoken-word performances, workshops, zine stalls, talks, art installations, video displays and more to be contributed.


• 15 February - The Big Blockade, Aldermaston, Berkshire, 7.00am
  Join the women’s contingent to protest against the renewal of the Trident nuclear missile system.


• 24 February - Ten Reasons Why I’m A Fat Activist by Charlotte Cooper, Goldsmiths College Student Union Building, Dixon Road, New Cross, London, SE14, 4pm


• 24 February - Gender, Race, and Religion in the Spectacle of Citizenship - New Theatre (East Building) at the LSE, 6.30-8.00pm


• 26 February - Bristol Reclaim the Night


• 26-27 February - The Way We Were and Are, Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first national Women’s Liberation: Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Rd, London, £25 The Way We Were and Are will reflect on forty years of the women’s movement, with women who were there at the Ruskin conference in l970 and those of later generations. The four panels will be around the themes of History, Ordinary Lives, Power, and Sex.


• 28 February - “Dear Sisters of the Earth”: A History Walk Celebrating Manchester’s Rebellious and Revolutionary Women
  Meet 10:45am, outside Central Library, St Peters Square.
  The charge is £5.00

March

• 2 March - Feminist Webs National Launch, The Women’s Library, London, 2.00pm-4.00pm.
  Read more about the project here.


• 4-12 March - Birds Eye View Film Festival, BFI Southbank and ICA, London, various prices
  Annual festival showcasing features and shorts by women film-makers, includes workshops for emerging film-makers. BEV also runs events throughout the year in London and touring the UK. Check their website for more info.


• 6 March - ‘Feminism Today’ with Nina Power and Lindsey German - Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London, N1 9DX, 5pm
  Part of *Focus on Feminism - a month of feminist events at Housmans bookshop*


• 6 March - Million Women Rise 2010, London, assembly 12pm Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park


• 8 March - International Women’s Day
  International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.
  Click here for details of the 100+ events being held in the UK to mark the day.


• 8-20 March - See You Next Tuesday: International Women’s Day Festival, New Players Theatre, WC2
  A two-week extravaganza featuring feminine and feminist art across disciplines, including an all-new version of The Vagina Monologues, new writing on violence against women by world-class playwrights, cabaret, burlesque, stand-up comedy, workshops, masterclasses, a gala fundraiser for the City of Joy safe house in the Congo, and more! See www.vdaylondon.com for details.


• 8th - 27th March - WOMEN BUILDING BRIDGES is an International Womens Day 2010 Art
  Exhibition and Programme opening in The Womens Centre, Beibinn House,
  5 Guildhall Street, Derry on Monday 8th March.
  Exhibitions, to be hosted by a number of venues around Derry city, will run from Monday 8th March to Saturday 27th March, and includes part of the cross-border project LIMINALITY: Different Views / Viewing Difference.

  This project, between Women Making Waves in Co. Fermanagh and Women Independently LIving in Leitrim, has explored issues of gender,
  self-image and disability through community arts activities with disabled and nondisabled women from the disadvantaged border area in the North-West of Ireland.

  The result is a collection of photographic self-portraits showing smiling, stylish, independent women unashamed of age or impairments. It challenges stereotypical images from the mainstream media, the women themselves choosing how they are to be represented.

  Some of the work from LIMINALITY will be on show in the Tower Museum from the launch at 12:30pm on Wednesday 10th March until Saturday 27th March.

  For more details, see here.

• 9 March - International Women’s Day Question Time, Rotherham Minster, Rotherham, 12.00pm - 2.00pm
  Put your questions to Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, Baroness Margaret Prosser (Deputy Chair of the EHRC), journalist and human rights activist Joan Smith and BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders (tbc). Admission is free, but a ticket is required; please email iwdquestiontime[at]gmail.com.


• 10 March - ‘Glamour: Social History, Women and Feminism’ with Carol Dyhouse - Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London, N1 9DX, 7pm
  Part of *Focus on Feminism - a month of feminist events at Housmans bookshop*


• 11 March - Carol Dyhouse on her new book Glamour, Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3QE (Map here) at 6.30pm
  Call 020 7637 1848 or email events@bookmarks.uk.com to reserve a free place.


• 11 March - “Who are you to speak?”, Amnesty UK panel, The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA (Map here) at 7pm
  Three outspoken women discuss the impact of religious fundamentalism on LGBT and women’s rights and why they’ve chosen to challenge it through their art.
  Click here for booking details.


• 12-13 March - Women’s Liberation Movement @ 40 Conference to mark 40th anniversary of the first National Women’s Liberation Conference, Ruskin College, Oxford
  Keynote speakers will include Shelia Rowbotham, Gail Lewis, Bea Campbell, our own Catherine Redfern & Kristin Aune.There will be panel sessions, creative workshops and conference papers on a wide variety of topics.


• 13 March - Mothers’ March and Speakout, Trafalgar Square, London, 2.00pm
  Bringing together mothers from diverse backgrounds to march to Parliament Square under the slogan ‘All mothers are working mothers’. All welcome (a contingent of fathers and male carers who support mothers will join the march).


• 16 March - Women’s Question Time, Central Hall, Westminster
  Eaves is holding a pre-election Question Time for all Ministers for Women, on 16 March, at 7pm, in the Great Hall in Central Hall Westminster. The audience will have the chance to ask the ministers questions about their manifestos for women, and comment on the answers. All are welcome - please see this flyer for details.


• 17 March - Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL) helpline launch, Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, 7.30pm
  Celebrate the opening of a new Rape Crisis centre in Leeds. Suggested donation of £5 on the door.


• 17-31 March - 24th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival


• 21 March - A Matter of Life and Death: LGBTI Rights in Uganda, 2-4pm, LGBT Centre, 49-51 Sidney Street, Manchester (Behind 8th Day Co-op off Oxford Rd)
  David Kato, LGBTI activist from Uganda and member of SMUG and Sokari Ekine, activist, writer and founder of Black Looks talk about the recent legislation threatening the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, the campaign in Uganda to stop the new law as well as international efforts for decriminalisation. To be followed by questions/discussion.

  The event is free but voluntary contributions towards travel expenses of participants gratefully received. The venue is wheelchair accessible and all on the ground floor.

  Delicious cheap food and cafe available from 12.30pm.



• 22 March - Women, BBC4
  A three-part documentary series about feminism and its impact on contemporary women’s lives. The third and final episode will feature members of the London Feminist Network, as well as footage from Feminism In London and Reclaim The Night. The programme is at the moment scheduled to be shown on BBC4 on the 22 March, but this may change.


• 23 March - What About Women hustings, Quaker Meeting House, Sheffield, 7.15-10pm
  Sheffield Fems host an evening of speeches followed by questions and answers with candidates from the four main political parties on the place of women in society.


• 24 March - Ada Lovelace Day


• 24 March - ‘Women and Activism’ with Maya Ann Evans and Tamsin Omond - Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London, N1 9DX, 7pm
  Part of *Focus on Feminism - a month of feminist events at Housmans bookshop*


• 31 March - ‘ Voice of Discontent: A Woman’s Journey Through the Long Eighteenth Century’ with Jennifer C. Kelsey - Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London, N1 9DX, 7pm
  Part of *Focus on Feminism - a month of feminist events at Housmans bookshop*

April

• 10 & 11 April - Anarcha Feminist Weekend, Manchester Students’ Union, Manchester

May

June

July

• 2 July - Not PowerPoint Again! Presenting Women in Popular Culture Differently, Day School at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York
  Details on the Not PowerPoint Again! Presenting Women in Popular Culture Differently blog.

August

September

October

• 23 October - Feminism in London 2010, Friends Meeting House, London, 10.00am-5.00pm
  “An opportunity to discuss and develop feminist perspectives and ways of resisting the laws and institutions that disadvantage women and the rising tide of misogyny in the culture at large.”

November

• 20 November - Transgender Day of Remembrance
  The Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day set aside each year to memorialise those who have been killed as a result of transphobia (anti-trans hatred or prejudice).

December

2009

January

• 24 January - Zine Fest, The Women’s Library, London, 12pm-4pm

February

• 5-6 February - Ladyfest Goldsmiths, London


• 11 February - Leeds Rape Crisis meeting, Leeds Civic Hall, 6.00pm
  Initial meeting to discuss the setting up of a new Rape Crisis centre. Please email ktrussell[at]care2.com if you’d like to attend.


• 11 February - Talk on The Monstrous Lesbian in Literature and Art c. 1900-1930 by Lindsay River, Treadwells Bookshop, London, 7.15pm, £5.00 in advance
  “The image of “The Lesbian” - ‎monstrous, tragic and exoticised, in English literature of the 1910s and 20s.‎ The idea of her monstrosity arose from the culture of the time: the fin-de-siècle fascination with “deadly and dangerous females”as well as the appearance of images of aesthetic and decadent men. The numerous facets of the ‘monstrous lesbian’ notions included the idea that a heterosexual woman could be ensnared by one of these dangerous creatures; there was the idea that homosexuality could be ‘caught’ like a disease from them. This sort of lesbian represented a threat to the natural order of society, for she would steal away men’s wives and daughters, and defied taming. In stories and illustrations she is likened to a vampire, snake, beast, or dragon.”


• 14 February - Gender, Race and Class - an anti-capitalist feminist event


• 17 February - 15 Years of DIVA Magazine, Women’s Library, London
  To celebrate 15 years of DIVA, Europe’s biggest selling lesbian magazine, this special event explores the role of DIVA and how it has filled a gap in the magazines market. Editor Jane Czyzselska talks with Louise Carolin and Stella Duffy


• 18 February - London Women and Planning Forum seminar on Locating sex work: red light districts, hot zones and safe places for women’, Queen Mary, University of Lonodn, 1:30pm-5:30pm, £25, or £10 concessions
  Speakers include the Poppy Project, Object, Dr Teela Sanders and Professor Phil Hubbard. Full address: Registration Room 126, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS. To reserve a place please contact f.paynter@qmul.ac.uk


• 20 February - Bristol Reclaim the Night, College Green, vigil 6pm, march 7pm
  Women-only and mixed genders march.


• 21 February - Brighton Zinefest, West Hill Hall, plus gigs in London and Brighton


• 21 February - Reclaim The Night NORTH, Manchester, 7.30pm
  Mixed genders march followed by rally and clubnight at the University of Manchester Students’ Union, Oxford Road.


• 21 February - Feminist Activist Forum history group, Feminist Library, London 2:30pm-4:30pm
  A catch-up meeting on current projects, including Outwrite feminist anti-imperialist women’s newspaper exhibition and chronology of grassroots feminist activism in the UK. We will also be discussing ideas for a possible feminist history zine. This meeting is open to all genders. Any questions to history@feministactivistforum.org.uk Find the library at: 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW.


• 25 February - Discussion on ‘Emancipation Through Islam’, London School of Economics, 2.00pm
  Dr Katerina Dalacoura will start a discussion on the topic of women’s emancipation through their religion. All are welcome to attend and join in this frank and honest debate. Room in H102.


• 27 February - Abortion Rights Comedy Cabaret, The Comedy Pub, London, 8.00pm, £10 including free raffle
  Event to celebrate Obama scrapping the anti-abortion Global Gag Rule and International Women’s Day 2009. All female line-up, including Kate Smurthwaite, Riot Showgirls, Eve Webster, Abi Roberts, Iszi Lawrence & Claire Benjamin. Full address: 7 Oxendon Street, London SW1Y 4EE, book online at Soho Comedy Club. Venue not wheelchair accessible.


• 28 February - NUJ Women’s Conference, London
  The conference will assess progress in the 30 years since the union published Images of Women, guidelines for promoting equality through journalism. The conference asks if this ground-breaking guide to non-sexist reporting made any difference, or has the stereotyping just got more subtle? Email joannef@nuj.org.uk to register


• 28 February -1 March - London AnarchaFeminist Kolektiv Feminist Health Weekend
  20 workshops on wide variety of topics. Open to all women and trans people, kids space and disabled access and adaptation available. Contact: email lafk@riseup.net or see the website for more details


• 28 February - Network of Oxford Women [NOW] for Justice and Peace Building Alliance for Joint Action Against War, North Oxford Community Centre, Summertown, 11am-4.30pm, £3
  Speakers Haifa Zangana (Iraqi author and founder member of Solidarity for an Independent and Unified Iraq), Alice Ukoko (founder of Women of Africa), Kate Hudson (Chair CND) Aim to build an alliance for joint action against war.


• 28 February - Benefit Gaza, Cockpit Theatre, London, 6.30pm foyer events, 7.30pm main show, £15 or £12 concessions
  An evening of music, comedy, poetry, readings and magic, raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians and The Rachel Corrie Foundation. Acts include Ewen Macintosh (from The Office) to Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen. Book online at
  cheekymaggot.co.uk

March

• 1 March - Our Bodies, Our Selves?, Guildhall, Bath, 7.00pm-8.30pm, £10/£8
  Part of the Bath Literature Festival, Naomi Alderman, Joan Bakewell, Sarah Dunant, with Helen Taylor addresses questions such as: “In these days of so-called post-feminism, who controls women’s bodies? What is it that drives young women to starve themselves? And older women to submit to the surgeon’s knife or the hypodermic full of botox? In an age of aggressive late consumerism, what control do we have over our appearance? Now that women’s looks are no longer a route to power and influence, who is it that we want to look good for?”


• 2 March - Women-themed pub quiz, Griffin Pub, Frome, 8.30pm
  Pub quiz to raise money for Women In Action: a charity in Managua, Nicaragua, that promotes cultural exchange and improves lives through sustainable community development.


• 3 March - Female-focused music quiz, Griffin Pub, Frome, 8.30pm
  Music quiz focusing on female artists, to raise money for Women in Action: a charity in Managua, Nicaragua, that promotes cultural exchange and improves lives through sustainable community development.


• 3 March - EHRC and EVAW International Women’s Day reception, London, 6pm
  The Equality and Human Rights Commission and End Violence Against Women reception will allow us to remind parliamentarians and stakeholders of the recommendations and findings of the Map the Gaps reports in the run up to International Women’s Day and to discuss wider issues of violence against women. Please confirm attendance by 27 March, by emailing esther.thomas@equalityhumanrights.com providing details of any access or dietary requirements. Full address: Smeaton Room, One Great George Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3AA


• 4 March - Wine tasting evening, Griffin Pub, Frome, 8pm, £10 in advance
  Wine tasting to raise money for Women in Action: a charity in Managua, Nicaragua, that promotes cultural exchange and improves lives through sustainable community development. Cost of tickets includes all wine, entertainment and nibbles.


• 5 March - Debate asking ‘Do women need a leg up in politics?’, St Pancras Room, London, 1.30pm
  Hosted by One World Action, speakers include Vera Baird (Solicitor General), Isma Almas (Comic), Jeanette Arnold (London Assembly), Natalie Bennett (The Guardian), Lucy Changwe (Zambian Development Minister), Nicholas Parsons (Actor) & Emily Thornberry, MP. Full address: St Pancras Room, Kings Place, NW1 9AG. Reservations: mbirchall@oneworldaction.org


• 6-14 March - Cardiff International Women’s Day festival, venues across Cardiff.


• 6 March - Inspirational women event, Ruskin College, Oxford, 9.30am-2.30pm, free, lunch included, but booking essential
  Ever wanted to change the world but didn’t know where to start? Discovering the inspirational woman inside yourself? Feel inadequate or underprepared to change the world? Want to discover what’s special about you? Book by emailing llivesey@ruskin.ac.uk. Followed by open day for women’s studies and other courses, 4.00pm-6.00pm.


• 6 March - Challenging Demand 3, Teacher Building, Glasgow, free
  A one-day conference to challenge the demand from men for the exploitation of women and children through pornography, sexualisation and sexual violence. Speakers include Kenny MacAskill MSP, Linda Thompson Women’s Support Project, Sandy Brindley Rape Crisis Scotland, Rebecca Whisnant founder member of the U.S. National Feminist Movement Against Pornography. Full address: Teacher Building, 14 St Enoch Square,Glasgow. (Conference is free but a fee of £50 will be payable if you do not notify us in advance of your non-attendance by 27th February).


• 6 March - Public meeting to celebrate International Women’s Day, University of London Union, 7.00-9.00pm
  As women in countries including war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan fight to defend the most basic human rights, women across the world are being hit by the economic crisis - through job losses, wage cuts, cuts in services, increased domestic violence and in many other ways. We, activists in the women’s and workers’ movements, are organising this meeting to celebrate International Women’s Day in the way its founders meant it to be celebrated: by promoting the international struggle for women’s liberation. Speakers include Jean Lambert (Green Party MEP), Terri Judd (The Independent), Maria Exall (CWU), Tamar Katz (Israeli National Service resister), Laura Schwartz (Feminist Fightback), Houzan Mahmoud (Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq)


• 6 March - Oxford Radical Forum, Ho Chi Minh Quad, Wadham College, Oxford
  The Myths of Mars and Venus - Deborah Cameron (author, The Myths of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?) 3:45pm-5:00pm, Gender and the Media: What the Movies we Love Tell us About How to be Women and Men - Amy Putman, Ryan Thoreson & Ashley Slaff 6:00pm-7:30pm


• 7 March - Million Women Rise march and rally, London


• 7 March - Women Writing Space, University of Warwick


• 7 March - International Women’s Day event for Latin American women living in the UK, Living Space, London, SE1, 2-5pm
  Informal workshop by Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, film screening, free food, live Andean band and Latin music, this event is organised by the Central American Women’s Network and Latin American Women’s Rights Service. A creche will be available. To reserve a place, email info@cawn.org
  
• 7 March - The Critter Connection, Griffin Pub, Frome
  The acoustic soul / ska band play to raise money for Women in Action: a charity in Managua, Nicaragua, that promotes cultural exchange and improves lives through sustainable community development.


• 8 March - Reclaim the Night Liverpool & International Women’s Day Women’s Festival


• 8 March - Reclaim the Night Edinburgh


• 8 March - Women In Action at Sausage Sunday, 1pm, £2 suggested donation
  Fabulous female-musician-only Sausage Sunday. A whole host of fantastic local (and not so local) female musicians will be playing all afternoon. With a bbq.


• 8 March - International Women’s Day pub quiz, The Union Tavern, Clerkenwell, London, 7.30pm, £4
  Islington and Hackney AI Group is having an International Women’s Day pub quiz with speakers from Amnesty. Places are limited so book early by calling Zsofia on 0787 5652674 (if no one answers just leave a message).


• 8 March - Reclaim the Night Edinburgh, Festival Square assembly point
  To mark the 98th International Women’s Day protest against the tolerance of violence against women in Scotland and challenging all forms of male violence against women in homes and on the streets. March followed after-event in Teviot Building with local groups and speakers, music and mingling with fellow marchers.


• 11 March - Sex Traffic, ICA, London, 7pm, £10, £9 concessions, £8 ICA members
  “The media and NGOs have raised awareness of sex trafficking in recent years, but does it serve the interests of migrant sex workers to suggest they have been trafficked, or does it collude in their criminalisation and deportation? Should our priority be to give migrant women in the sex industry more control over their own lives, or to stop the traffic? Speakers: Laura María Agustín (author and educator), Georgina Perry (service manager), Catherine Stephens (sex worker), Jon Birch (Metropolitan Police Clubs and Vice Unit)” See ICA website for more info and book tickets.


• 14 March - Quality Youth Work With Girls and Young Women Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 9.30am-4.00pm
  Conference and launch of the feminist webs archive! With guest speakers from Object! and Oxfam, as well as a number of creative, interactive workshops.


• 17 March - Reclaim the Night Cardiff, Cardiff city centre, from 7.00pm
  March to challenge attitudes to female victims of sexual violence, demand improvements in the rape conviction rate and lobby the Welsh Assembly for an integrated strategy to end violence against women. There will be a self-defined women-only section at the front of the march, followed by an all genders section


• 19/20 March - Lisistrata, Berlington Rooms, University of Manchester, 7pm
  Modern re-telling of the classic Greek play, featuring an all-female cast. Proceeds will be used to support local women’s groups.


• 21 March - Demonstration Against Immigration Detention, Yarl’s Wood, Bedford
  Gather 11.30am at Bedford Town Centre to march from Bedford to Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre, to demonstrate between 12.30 and 2pm.


• 27-29 March - Images of Black Women Film Festival, Tricycle Theatre, London
  This film festival celebrates its fifth anniversary of championing women of African descent in cinema. See the festival website for more information and call the Tricycle boxoffice for tickets on 0207 328 1000


• 28 March - Study day on gender and sex in magazines, The Women’s Library, London, 10.30am-3.00pm, £20, £15 concessions
  A day of talks, on British Vogue’s response to World War II; sex fiction and the problem page in the women’s magazines of the 1920s and 1930s; masculinity and men’s magazines; and on women’s magazines and feminist magazines were influenced by feminism in the 1970s. See The Women’s Library website for more info and to book.

April

• 2 April, Talk by Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi, The Women’s Library, London, 7.00pm, £6, £4 concessions
  “Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt’s most famous feminist activist, has written extensively on women and Islam. One of the first female Muslim writers to discuss sex, feminism and the veil, her powerful writing highlights social and religious injustice. Hear Nawal on this rare visit to the UK, coinciding with the re-releaseof some of her classic books: Searching, A Daughter of Isis and The Circling Song.” See The Women’s Library website for more info


• 9 April, Cum the Revolution One! Black Panthers and Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 8pm - 1am (one off screening of A Place of Rage documentary by Dame Pratibha Parmar at 8.15pm sharp and performances from Project Caramel, Zstar, MC Chickaboo and Miss Bailey from 9.30pm sharp), Bethnal Green Working Men’s Bird’s Club, London, £8/6
  “Barack Obama’s inauguration as the President of the US of A in January is a hard won victory for the African American Civil Rights movement. Bird Club looks back on the decades preceding this event and celebrates the women and the men who fought for the right to sit at the front of the bus. Dress up: All African American style for everyone!” See the Birdclub website for more info.


• 18 April - Guided walk on the women who have defined Whitechapel and Spittalfields, The Women’s Library, London, 10.30am, £8, advance booking essential
  “Visit sites associated with women who have defined Whitechapel and Spitalfields. From Eva Luckes and Edith Cavell at the London Hospital, to social reformers Annie Besant and Mary Hughes. Find out how writers and artists like Monica Ali and Tracey Emin have used the area to inspire their work.” See The Women’s Library website for more info


• 24-26 April - Race, privilege and identity, Bristol
  A gathering to “engage with issues of race, privilege and identity in radical queer-feminist communities through building dialogue, coalitions and resources”.


• 30 April - Sex, shopping and sisterhood: politics in women’s magazines, The Women’s Library, 7.00pm, £8 or £6 concessions
  “This event explores how women’s magazines have addressed politics, from influential feminist journal Spare Rib to leading popular magazines like Woman’s Own. Join past and present editors to discuss the successes and challenges, and debate whether politics and pleasure really can mix. Marsha Rowe, Spare Rib; Jess McCabe, The F-Word; Ali Hall, Look; Jane Reed, Woman’s Own.

May

• 3 May - Cambridge Reclaim the Night
  “With violence against women affecting hundreds of thousands of women in Britain every year, yet the conviction rate for rape the lowest it’s been for decades, we’re taking to the streets to march against violence against women. We’re asking all self-defining women (children welcome) to join us for a defiant march through Cambridge, reclaiming public spaces from fear of violence. Assemble 8:30pm in the middle of Parkers’ Piece for a women’s march to King’s College Chapel, where from 9:15pm there will be talk and a vigil open to all genders with music, speakers and silence.” See Women’s Union website for more info.


• 7 May - Talk on the life of suffragette Evelyn Sharp, The Women’s Library, London, 7.00pm, £6 or £4 concessions
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