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LONDON FASHION WEEK’S FLIGHT OF FEMINISM: TATTY DEVINE
Posted by Charlotte on September 20, 2010
Tags: fashion, feminism, History, LFW, Tatty Devine, Women
As fashion week and new seasonal wardrobes get all up in your face and over magazines it’s worth pulling out the little bits of interest to feminists — today, the Tatty Devine designed ‘Age of Blazing Trails’ amazing women-based…
JEZEBEL, FAILING TO FIGHT FOR THE FEMINISTS
Posted by Charlotte on July 7, 2010
Tags: Jezebel, misogyny, Women
I can’t believe there isn’t more consternation or anger that Jezebel chose to sell out it’s readership on July 5th, a holiday in the USA, by letting Deadspin editor curate the site in misogynistic fatphobic fashion.
I know that Jezebel…
KNICKER BUNTING, HAND PUPPETS, ZINE MAKING AND ROLLER DERBY!
Posted by Laura on July 4, 2010
Tags: academia, fashion, feminism, Music, Research, roller derby, Sport, Women, Women and Sport, Zines
On Friday 2nd July I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to attend the ‘Not PowerPoint Again! Presenting Research on Women in Popular Culture’ Day School at the University of York. The day itself was organised by…
MAGGIE THATCHER, LIKE MARMITE APPARENTLY…
Posted by Laura on July 4, 2010
Tags: Politics, Woman's Hour, Women
BBC Radio4’s Woman’s Hour recently run a balloon debate to consider the woman who’d done the most to give women in Britain a voice in politics. One of the four women in the balloon was Margaret Thatcher,…
ASKING FOR IT
Posted by Laura on July 3, 2010
Tags: News, Rape, TV, Women
On a similar topic to the last post – I turned on BBC 1 Breakfast News this morning in the middle of a discussion about respecting other countries’ members by not wearing swimwear into bars, restaurants, shops and so…
BME WOMENS ASPIRATIONS NETWORK OPEN DAY, BIRMINGHAM
Posted by Charlotte on June 6, 2010
Tags: Birmingham, BME Women, BWAN, Networking, Women
Date: Saturday, 12 June 2010
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Location: Ibiz Hotel. , Birmingham City Centre. Ladywell Walk. Birmingham. B5 4ST
The BME Women’s Aspirations Network in Birmingham is holding a free networking event on Saturday to learn…
THIS WEEK’S TIDBITS
Posted by Laura on May 15, 2010
Tags: Blogs, Links, Reproductive Rights, Women
Firstly some attention aimed at the blog Penny Red by Laurie Penny, which provides a intelligent, questioning, and often witty, outlook on societal ongoings. I’ve become increasingly addicted to the blog and in the last few weeks have nothing…
A MUSICAL INTERLUDE
Posted by Laura on May 8, 2010
Tags: Music, review, Women
Patti Smith, Sheffield, April 2010
Last month I was lucky enough to see Patti Smith at her evening at the Millenium gallery in Sheffield. I had seen Mapplethorpe’s exhibition there a while back and so this evening flowed quite…
ELECTION HUSTINGS IN LONDON AND SHEFFIELD
Posted by Charlotte on March 22, 2010
Tags: funding, london, Politics, Pre election hustings, sheffield, Women, Women's Issues
The elections are just on the horizon and it pays to be informed before you hit the polls. There are likely to be a lot of hustings in your are but let me draw your attention to two – in…
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…