Calling all feminist campaigners, activists, artists,
academics and revolutionaries. Calling all women!

FiLiA 2018 takes place in Salford on the weekend of 20/21 October. The conference brings together sisters who are taking down patriarchy, fighting injustices across the world, fighting violence towards women, pay disparity, discrimination against refugees, racism and classism. The very long list of topics to be discussed includes Palestine, secularism, feminist campaigns, lesbians, herstory and activism, women and class, and consciousness raising.

There is a free creche and free children’s workshops. For more information about the conference, including ticket prices, go to the FiLiA website.

A project to record, collect and preserve LGBTIQ+ experience is looking for contributors. West Yorkshire Queer Stories wants people to share their stories, both the everyday and the extraordinary, as well as donate queer objects and photographs to be scanned for a digital collection.

They are also looking for 50 volunteer Community Curators with an interest in queer history, story collecting, editing, social media, events or sound and video production. You don’t need any previous experience and free training and travel is provided.

If you’re interested there is more information on their Facebook page, or email Rachel at r.larman@mesmac.co.uk

This year marks the 4oth anniversary of Leeds Animation Workshop, a women’s co-operative which produces and distributes animated films and films on social and educational issues. There are several celebratory events taking place, including two on women and animation:

• Women’s Animation from Near and Far: a programme of films including national and international award-winners never before seen in this country, alongside some made in Leeds. Plus a panel of speakers.
  Tuesday 25 September, 6.30pm at Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds (usual cinema ticket prices)
• Women Animators on the Edge: a programme of films you wouldn’t usually see in a cinema – new, raw, political, poetic. With speaker Louise Shelley and Q&A.
  Thursday 27 September, 6.30pm at 42 New Briggate, Leeds. Free, but space limited and booking may be necessary – phone LAW on 0113 248 4997 to check.

 

A history student at the University of Oxford is researching the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement during the 1970s/80s and other feminist groups or collectives around the area (such as the News From Nowhere bookshop), in relation to the socialist politics of Liverpool, feminist print cultures, and consciousness-raising of working class women in the area.

Rachel Collett would like to speak to any women who were involved in the movement in Merseyside or who attended the bookshop/any of the feminist groups. You can contact Rachel at rachel.collett@wadham.ox.ac.uk

A Woman’s Place has organised a public meeting in Leeds to discuss the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. This is one of a series of meetings the group is organising across the UK to discuss the question: What is gender, and what will be the impact on women and on women’s rights and legal protection?. It takes place on Friday 28 September, 7pm-9pm. The venue will be confirmed later. Tickets cost £5.98 (inc booking fee). Book tickets here