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  • CALL FOR PAPERS! Back to the Future: Feminist Media Activism in Transition

    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)…


  • International Women’s Day in Feminist Magazines: A Short but Radical History

    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…


  • Feminism(s) in the Media

    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…


  • Nurses’ strikes, from 1982 to 2022

    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.


  • The March of the Mummies

    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’…


  • The Gender Wage Gap

    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…


  • Joanne’s testimony (part 3 of 3)

    In the final part of her interview, Joanne talks about why she stopped reading feminist magazines and the importance of popular music and bands to the development of her personal feminism. Joanne can you tell us did your mother read feminist magazines? My mother certainly didn’t but having told the story about how we were…