Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Remembering Resistance will create a permanent archive of women’s activism to inspire future generations.  To ensure that the voices of women who have been involved in protest are preserved, the project is gathering oral histories and archival accounts from women who have been active in protest or political campaigning, past and present. If you’ve been involved in protest or campaigning and want to share your experiences, they would love to hear from you.

To learn more about the project, including how to be an interviewee or to train as a citizen researcher, get in touch with Sarah Marsden at s.marsden@lancaster.ac.uk. You can learn more at www.rememberingresistance.com, and follow the project on Twitter @rememberresist.

Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Young Members Board Lottie Doll is helping archive the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) collection at FAN, with our lovely new banner in the background.

With her help we’re planning to launch the collection at our International Women’s Day event next year to celebrate the centenary of WES.

Tweeting –  #LottieTour  #TEWeek18  @wes1919  @ymb1919

The first annual CEASE (Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation) Conference takes place in London on 14 November 2018. The conference will provide a platform for expert speakers to paint an in-depth picture of everything from sex trafficking, prostitution, pornography, to grooming, child sexual exploitation and the sex trade industry in Britain today.

Naomi Miles, co-founder and organiser of the event says: “Our aim is to expose the connections between different aspects of sexual exploitation, which all inextricably feed into each other. It will give an overview of the main challenges in the UK at present, exploring potential new collaborative approaches that will instigate real change to the political and cultural landscape of Britain.”

The event is non-partisan, spanning political, social and religious differences and bringing together an unlikely alliance of organisations, from radical feminist and Violence Against Women campaigners to educators, anti-trafficking groups and those providing front-line services to survivors of sexual exploitation, rape and abuse. As well as being open to all those working within this space, the event also welcomes anyone with an interest in hearing the experience and expertise of speakers at the front line of this battle.

Booking information at www.ceaseuk.org

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