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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!
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Activist Legacies Roundtable
The Activist Legacies Roundtable, hosted by the Women’s Library at the LSE on Thursday 22nd September provided a unique insight into feminist periodical culture from the early seventies right up to the present day.