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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.
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 Mayoral office…
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 welcome to join…
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.
This three-part BBC documentary has many interesting moments, say Charlotte Cooper and Jess McCabe.…
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S WRITES
Posted by Charlotte on March 5, 2010
Tags: 6degrees, Action Aid, International Women's Day, Jamelia, Women's Rights
What isn’t happening in the two weeks surrounding International Women’s Day? Not much it would seem.
Wednesday night saw the launch of Action Aid’s new tool in the organisations 6degrees campaign, the book See Me, Hear Me, Read Me. The A5…
YOUNG WOMEN ARISE: FEMINIST WEBS LAUNCH
Posted by Charlotte on March 4, 2010
Tags: events, Feminist Webs, Young Women, Youth Work
Feminist Webs launched officially in London this week after a year of touring women’s groups and creating group projects. Online, the group describes it’s work as creating “an intergenerational enterprise to design and produce an online ‘women and girls work…
STOP THE TRAFFIC, SHEFFIELD
Posted by Charlotte on March 4, 2010
Women’s Aid are offering an event on March 29th in Sheffield to help inform people on criminal and immigration laws that apply to women trafficked into the UK.
Trained in partnership with POPPY Project – understand the criminal & immigration laws…
EVERY MOTHER IS A WORKING MOTHER
Posted by Charlotte on March 2, 2010
Tags: feminism, International Women's Day, IWD, Marches, Mothers, Working Mothers
There is some more marching afoot, the Mothers March is being organised by Global Women Strike amongst others.
Mothers March & Speak Out
Date: Saturday 13 March 2010
Time: 2pm
Location: Trafalgar Square then Parliament Sq, London SW1
EVERY MOTHER IS A WORKING MOTHER
The survival of…
EMPOWERING WOMEN AWARDS
Posted by Charlotte on March 2, 2010
Tags: Avon, Awards, Domestic Violence, Marie Claire, Women's Aid
Avon and Women’s Aid launched the Empowering Women Awards last night to celebrate the work and lives of women who have been affected by domestic violence or worked tirelessly to help eradicate it.
Judges are Sarah Brown, Tana Ramsey, Reese Witherspoon, Trish…
WELCOME TO WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!
Posted by Charlotte on March 1, 2010
Today is March the 1st, International Women’s day is just around the corner and you should find yourself steeped in women’s history for a whole month, here are some events to direct yourself towards: