Festival of Feminist Ideas and Actions 2016 Events
A full programme of events and further information can be found below the cut. A pdf version of the programme is also available to download here.
Talk at University of Maine
Associate Professor Ruth Lewis gave a talk at University of Maine about new manifestations and new conceptualisations of violence against women and girls. You can read a review of it here
Festival of Feminist Ideas and Action – Podcast #4
Available on PodOmatic Feminism, Activism and Social Media Once heralded as a haven for free speech and democratic dialogue, the online world has come to be characterised by the same gender inequalities as the offline world. In this podcast, Marloes Jansen, Ruth Lewis and Jessica O’Donnell (all Northumbria University) discuss their research findings about women’s…
Upcoming Festival of Feminist Ideas and Actions – Feminism, Activism and Social Media
The next event in our FFIA 2016 takes place at Bewick Hall, City Library, Newcastle, on Tuesday 12 April. Doors open at 6pm with refreshments and the discussion starts at 6.30pm. Speakers are: Marloes Jansen, Ruth Lewis and Jessi O’Donnell (all from Northumbria University). We look forward to seeing you. See here FFIA2016-events-poster for full Festival…
what equality means to young people…..
In my third-year, Gender, Media and Society class, on the eve of International Women’s Day, I asked students to write down what equality means to them, and this is what they came up with. Brilliant! LINK
Festival of Feminist Ideas and Action – Podcast #3
Available on PodOmatic Feminist Periodicals Dr. Melanie Waters and Dr. Victoria Bazin discuss feminist periodicals, such as Spare Rib and Shrew Magazine. For further information: The British Library online archive about Spare Rib: http://www.bl.uk/spare-rib Some information about Shrew magazine and its contexts: http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/counterculture/liberation/shrew/shrew.html An article from the Guardian about the 1970 feminist action against Miss…
Festival of Feminist Ideas and Action – Podcast #2
Available on PodOmatic The F Word – What Does Feminism Mean? Dr Rosie White Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Theory and Popular Culture and PhD student Anamarija Horvat discuss different interpretations of the term “Feminism” and discuss what it means to them. Links: Emma Watson’s UN speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iFl4qhBsE ‘Beyonce’s Drunk in Love, Should We Have…
Festival of Feminist Ideas and Action – Podcast #1
Available on PodOmatic ‘The Tampon Tax’ Prof. Karen Ross and Ph.D candidate Gabrielle Smith discuss the tax on sanitary products as a “luxury”. This podcast comes out of campaigns, petitions and wider conversations that we encourage all women to be having regarding the issue of taxing tampons and other sanitary items. Petitions: https://www.change.org/p/george-osborne-stop-taxing-periods-period https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-if-men-had-periods-sanitary-protection-would-be-tax-free
Launch of the Global Media Monitoring Project report
The report of the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project was launched today, and a number of individual national and regional reports were also launched. The Global Media Monitoring Project is the largest and longest longitudinal study on the gender in the world’s media. It is also the largest advocacy initiative in the world on changing…
Digital storytelling
Alex Henry at Curiosity Creative ran a brilliant workshop for us, working with local women to create a range of stories about the activism. Check them out here. And come back soon for details on when our North East Women’s Activism archive goes live.
5th and final conversation – women, politics, power
Our three speakers for this conversation are Sue Regan (Northumbria University), Louise Carol Donkor (University of Liverpool) and Justine Uvuza (Newcastle University).
Gender & Society Research Hub 