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Activist Legacies Roundtable 2
Join us on Thursday 25th May to discuss the legacies of feminist print magazines in the digital age!
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CALL FOR PAPERS! Back to the Future: Feminist Media Activism in Transition
A special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies 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)?…
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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. Joanne’s testimony (1 of 3) » “We…
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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…