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 … [Read more...]

  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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

Yesterday the BBC reported that Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate her £2.3m Breakthrough Prize award to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers. She received this prize for her discovery of radio pulsars – being a research student at the time she was not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery her collaborators … [Read more...]