Feminist Archive North

Leeds, Saturday 7 September
March leaves City Square 2pm, Rally at Millennium Square

A march for lesbian women and a rally afterwards for lesbian women and all their female supporters will take place in Leeds on Saturday 7 September.

The purpose of the rally is to celebrate all lesbians past and present from all walks of life, to draw strength and inspiration from a rich lesbian and feminist history, and to recreate and reaffirm lesbian culture and lesbian spaces.

The organisers say: “We acknowledge and condemn the lesbophobia and misogyny still very much present in our communities today all over the world and the resulting prejudice, persecution and violence our lesbian sisters face every day.”

 

 

Leeds Playhouse has been in touch with Feminist Archive North for help in making contact with women who were at Greenham Common. The Playhouse is supporting writer Grace Barnes in her early research for a play about Greenham Common and specifically about women from Leeds and the wider north who were part of the protest.  

Grace is coming to Leeds in the week starting 4 November, and we are hoping to put Grace in touch with some local women with first-hand accounts of Greenham. If you were at Greenham and can help please get in touch with FAN  and we will pass on your contact details.

One of the opening plays in the new revamped Leeds Playhouse looks at how women living in Leeds in the 1970s lived with the knowledge that a murderer was at large in the city. But this is not a play about the Yorkshire Ripper; instead, it explores the solidarity that formed amongst women, leading to the birth of the Reclaim the Night movement.

The Feminist Archive North has assisted the writer and director of There Are No Beginnings and we are providing some posters, placards and other materials from the time for a display to accompany the play. In addition, one of our volunteers will lead a post-show discussion on activism and solidarity after the matinee performance on Thursday 31 October.

The cast of four women includes Julie Hesmonhalgh and local actor Natalie Gavin. The play runs from 11 October to 2 November. More information and booking here

In this centenary year of the Women’s Engineering Society Lynette Willoughby, FAN volunteer and past president of WES, will introduce this fascinating talk.

Electrifying Women: Celebrating a Century of Female Engineers

Saturday 22^nd June 2pm

Free public lecture by Graeme Gooday

Sanderson Room, 3rd floor, Leeds Central Library, Headrow

Free tickets available here

In collaboration with the Women’s Engineering Society and the Science Museum, and supported by a Follow-Funding grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council

Image courtesy of the Women’s Engineering Society and the Institution of Engineering & Technology

In the centenary year of the Women’s Engineering Society, Prof Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) explains how and why the Society came into being, and discusses the roles of two Yorkshire women.

For more information about the venue please contact Inga Kobzeva.

Leeds City Museum, Saturday 15 June, 11am-3pm

Calling all women activists!

Remembering Resistance: A Century of Women’s Protest in the North of England is a project from Lancaster University that brings the history of women’s activism to life.

The project, is holding an event at Leeds City Museum in association with the museum’s community engagement team, Feminist Archive North and Chapel FM. Activities will be held all day in the Broderick Hall where you can record your memories of protest and contribute to what we know about activism in the city.

From 12pm talks will take place in the Conference Room:

• Dr Sarah Marsden will speak about the women’s liberation movement and its future
• Sandra McNeill and Paula Smith from Feminist Archive North will talk about their own stories of activism and the archive itself

Make sure your voice is heard, celebrate your achievements
and inspire the next generation of activists!