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CALL FOR PAPERS! Back to the Future: Feminist Media Activism in Transition
How has feminist media activism transitioned from the print era to the digital? What are the key events or moments of technological transition which have signalled shifts in feminist media activism or production (for instance, the rise of TV/televised events, radio, Xerox machines, hashtags, or TikTok)? And what methodological approaches (decolonial, queer, affective, archival, periodical)…
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International Women’s Day in Feminist Magazines: A Short but Radical History
Some of the earliest coverage of International Women’s Day (IWD) in feminist magazines of the 1970s-80s takes the form of demonstrations, like this one advertised in Red Rag issue 4 (1973): Red Rag write about the origin of IWD in the feminist strike: How many of us realise that one of the events, which sparked…
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Feminism(s) in the Media
The Liberating Histories team will be presenting their research at the conference ‘Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations’ 14-15 September 2023 at Ghent University, Belgium. Our panel is titled ‘Networks of Feeling in Women’s Movement Magazines‘ and we’ll be drawing on periodical studies and affect theory to think about the feelings and…
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Nurses’ strikes, from 1982 to 2022
In December 2022, NHS nurses took part in the biggest strike in their history. Here’s how feminist magazines covered the nurses’ strike of 1982.
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Sue’s testimony (part 3 of 3)
In the third and final part of Sue’s testimony she talks about how feminism helped to forge links across different groups and sections of society, about the power of collective experience in the 1980s and 90s and how it differs from today, and the rise of Lesbian Feminism. “We certainly in the 80s partnered up…
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Sue’s testimony (part 2 of 3)
In the second part of Sue’s testimony she talks about the excitement of learning and understanding international issues and women’s universal experience and how reading magazines like Spare Rib and OutWrite helped her to develop a “feminist lens” to view conventional media through. She also talks about different feminisms, Lesbian and Gay activism and the…
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The March of the Mummies
On Saturday 29th October 2022 thousands joined protests across the UK to demand more affordable childcare. Organised by Pregnant Then Screwed, a charity dedicated to ending the motherhood penalty, protestors carried placards such as this one: In 1973, Red Rag published this article by Val Charlton on the politics of childcare. Some of the ‘contradictions’…
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The Gender Wage Gap
Inspired by Ms. magazine’s coverage of the gender wage gap in the US and its impact on Black and Latina women, we invite you to hop in our feminist time machine to see UK feminist magazine Shrew, 50 years ago, on the ‘triple exploitation’ of black women on the basis of their ‘class, their colour…
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Liberating Histories Panel Presentation
Join us on Wednesday 5th October to hear the Liberating Histories team talk about Outrage in Outwrite, Loneliness in Shrew and Hope in Red Rag magazine. This event will be live streamed at 4pm. For a link, contact Jennifer.Aston@northumbria.ac.uk. We would love to see you there!