Rolling our own!
Feminist Magazines and Women’s Liberation
May Day Rooms, London, 25th April 2024
In this workshop, we explored May Day Rooms‘ extensive holdings of feminist magazines from the 1970s-80s and discussed the symbiotic relationship between activist media and political movement.
From Spare Rib to Red Rag to Shocking Pink, activist periodicals of the 1970s-80s powered, connected and sustained the UK Women’s Liberation Movement. As the socialist-feminist magazine Scarlet Women put it in 1977: ‘political power grows out of the barrel of a duplicator!’
There was also be an introduction to digital resources including our Feminist Periodicals Guide, and the Spare Rib map.
Some photos from the session
