Womens Land Camping

The Million Women Rise coalition are hosting a week of camping for women on Womens Land, Wales. This will be Friday 21st August until 28th August, after which is the Women in Tune festival nearby. For women unable to camp there is possibility of accommodation.
Also did you know…
There will be women camping in West Wales [...]

Anarcha-feminist intervention at anarchist conference

At the recent Anarchist Conference in London, six masked anarcha-feminists stormed the final meeting, turned off the lights and played the below video. The purpose to highlight sexism in the anarchist movement. That the movement is white and male dominated and this is rarely critiqued. The intervention has caused controversy in the anarchist community, which [...]

Cool Women Performers

The Lake District is host to the Women’s Arts International Festival. The first one was in 2007 and included Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful, Germaine Greer… This year the full festival could not go ahead due to funding cuts, however they still were able to continue with a few fab women performers, as below:
Zena Edwards
Zena Edwards [...]

Report of Autonomous Womyn’s Gathering

Approximately 270 women attended the Autonomous Womyn’s Gathering in Vienna in April. Workshops ranged from feminist anti-facist remberance, to anarcha-feminism, to sustainable agriculture outside of patriarchy… The event was followed by a demonstration in the city centre.

Liane who lives in the UK  attended the event and gives a brief report as below detailing the women-only [...]

Women Only Events (…still exist!)

Last weekend I went to the Women in Tune Fundraiser in the fabulous lesbian village- Todmorden in Yorkshire. Women in Tune is a women only festival in Wales that promotes women’s involvement in music.
For any dykes out there who aren’t aware, Todmorden and Hebden Bridge are two villages in Yorkshire full of lesbians. And they [...]

Living our theory

International Women’s Day last year, I was featured in the Observer as one of the top thirty radical women to look out for of 2008. I thought it was funny at the time- what have I ever done, I said to me-self..?
A year on, I look back at my life since to feel ashamed but [...]

Women in Tune Benefit Gig

Women in Tune organises a women’s music festival to encourage women to enjoy and play music. We have lost our funding, which has gone to the Olympics. Your help is needed to make it happen!

Women in Tune Fundraising Weekend
at The Fielden Centre
Burnley Rd, Todmorden
(Calderdale, West Yorkshire)
April 18th & 19th 2009
Sat
Workshops, Performances & [...]

Autonomous Feminist Womyn’s Gathering

April 9 – 14, 2009 · Vienna, Austria
“At the beginning of 2008 about 70 women and lesbians from different countries, from both
autonomous feminist and mixed organised backgrounds, came together at Freiburg / Germany,
because “we are also in our countries involved in struggles against a patriarchal, capitalist and
racist system.” (from the summoning letter to the Freiburg [...]

Radical Feminist Gathering

I’m interested in organising a radical feminist gathering in the North UK. I don’t care what we talk about, all I want is to meet with other radical feminists rather than sitting at this computer reading their blogs.
I think we can do it. We have to. Whilst the socialist feminists are organising their own conferences [...]

It’s the little things…

I’ve been involved in women’s rights for a couple of years, and have been involved in some confrontational and contentious stuff, but what I have noticed is that it’s the little things in my personal life that I find the hardest. Compared to giving pornographers or the police shit, you’d think that something like not [...]