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CHARLOTTE ROCHE – WETLANDS
Posted by Laura on January 17, 2009
Tags: Books
Today’s Guardian Weekend supplement featured a piece on Charlotte Roche, author of the not-yet-published-in-the-UK Wetlands Roche, herself, is a feminist but her book, with it’s lead character’s lack of personal hygiene, explicit masturbation and fascination with the body, seems to be arousing much…
LADYFEST GOLDSMITHS: WOMEN, WORDS, MUSIC AND FUN
Posted by Charlotte on January 16, 2009
Tags: events, Music
Ladies of London, or those with the taste for taking the train there, Goldsmiths Student’s Union are hosting the first event of the Ladyfest Calandar 2009.
The events announced so far are as follows:
MUSIC FROM:
Das Wanderlust
Kasms
An Experiment on a Bird in…
GLOBAL WOMEN STRIKE AND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN COUNT NEW YEAR EVENTS
Posted by Charlotte on January 12, 2009
Tags: events
The Global Women’s Strike and International Women Count Network have organised five events with a wide range of speakers from Bolivia, Canada, England, Guyana, haiti, India, Iraq, Ireland, Palestine, Peru, Spain, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, USA and Venezuela.
- Grassroots Struggle…
A PLEDGE FOR WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY, ADA LOVELACE DAY 2009
Posted by Charlotte on January 10, 2009
Tags: Action Alert, Technology
“I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.” — Suw Charman-Anderson
To celebrate women in technology Suw is looking to sign up 1000…
MATERNITY LEAVE – YOUR THOUGHTS
Posted by Gill on January 9, 2009
Tags: News
French justice minister, Rachida Dati, is back at work less than a week after the birth of her first child by cesarean. Today’s Guardian carries a feature discussing how this may impact on French women’s confidence to claim and take the…
THE FAWCETT SOCIETY CONSULTATION ON WOMEN AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Posted by Charlotte on January 9, 2009
Tags: Action Alert
The Fawcett Society do a lot of good work, and make a lot of good t-shirts (check your copy of Subtext Issue 6 now!) and so I can only thoroughly recommend everyone volunteering their help for the societies new consultation…
MILLION WOMEN RISE MARCH 2009 ANNOUNCED
Posted by Charlotte on January 7, 2009
Tags: Action Alert, events
2008 saw the Million Women Rise march bring 5000 women and children to the streets of London to call for an end to violence against women. The march rallied a truly diverse group of women willing to call out against…