ARCHIVE FOR MARCH, 2010

FILMS IN LONDON AS PART OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Posted by Charlotte on March 15, 2010
Tags: feminism, Human Rights Watch, International News, Subtext Magazine, Women's Rights

From WomensGrid

This year’s programme includes two empowering films highlighting stories of women’s activism, resistance and solidarity around the world, as well as a short film by a youth filmmaker

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GETTING STERN

Posted by Charlotte on March 15, 2010
Tags: feminism, Rape, Rape Crisis, Stern Report, Subtext Magazine, Women's Rights

The long awaited Stern review came out today so lets brush up on what it is and what’s being said about it online. The Stern review was authored by crossbench peer Baroness Stern in response to two high profile serial…

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ANYONE HERE BEEN RAPED AND SPEAK ENGLISH: PART 2

Posted by Charlotte on March 13, 2010
Tags: AmnestyUK, Anyone Here Been Raped and Speak English, feminism, Gender Stereotypes, International News, Samira Ahmed, Women and the Media

In part two: I followed up the topic of International news reporting and the representation of women with Samira Ahmed from Channel 4 news over email.

I am always conscious of the danger of what I call ‘disaster porn’…

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SECOND WAVE FEMINISM ARCHIVE

Posted by Charlotte on March 13, 2010
Tags: BBC, feminism, Second Wave Feminism Archive, Subtext Magazine

The BBC has a second wave feminism archive!

From a quick look at what’s on the front page I have to say it doesn’t address my previous concerns with the Women Libbers documentary — that is it focuses…

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CALLING OXFORD FEMINISTS

Posted by Charlotte on March 13, 2010

Want to dabble in feminism over Easter?

Love reading feminist blogs?

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IT’S ALL ABOUT ‘CHOICE’

Posted by Laura on March 10, 2010
Tags: Books, feminism, Radio, socialisation

I’ve currently knee-deep in a backlog of books, radio and tv programmes and blogs on feminist issues. Half-way through Natasha Walter’s Living Dolls, Kat Banyard’s The Equality Illusion next on the pile and the Women BBC2 series being taped for…

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ANYONE HERE BEEN RAPED AND SPEAK ENGLISH: PART 1

Posted by Charlotte on March 9, 2010
Tags: AmnestyUK, feminism, Harriet Sherwood, International News, Jenny Wood, Kat Banyard, Samira Ahmed

Amnesty UK held an event on Monday night as part of the Wisewords festival, both to celebrate women’s writing and self expression and to raise the profile of their media awards.

The event, Anyone Here Been Raped…

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LONDON TO HAVE RAPE CRISIS CENTRES QUADRUPLED

Posted by Charlotte on March 8, 2010
Tags: Boris Keep Your Promise, Domestic Violence, Gendered Violence, london, Rape Crisis, Women and Girls Network, Women's Rights

Well, since the twitter account for the Mayor of London went to all the effort of adding a load of feminists on Friday I should at least share the reason over here. We heard last week that the…

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MILLION WOMEN RISE

Posted by Charlotte on March 8, 2010
Tags: feminism, Million Women Rise, Women

The annual Million Women Rise took place on Saturday, leading a rabble rousing crowd of thousands of women in singing, chanting and noise making of all kinds down Oxford Street to Trafalgar Square. Sadly, not everyone felt…

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WOMEN

Posted by Charlotte on March 8, 2010
Tags: Documentaries, feminism, International Women's Day, TV, Vanessa Engle, Women, Women Activists, Women Libbers, Women Mothers

Jess McCabe and I recently watched the full three-part documentary about women made by Vanessa Engle, the resulting review has been posted at the F – Word.

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