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Liberating Histories: Women's Movement Magazines, Media Activism and Periodical Pedagogies | @AHRCPress funded | @NorthumbriaUni | Women's Library @LSELibrary

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To mark International Women's Day🌎 we are very excited to launch the LIBERATING HISTORIES podcast ✨. A series which explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines.
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Whatever happened to an internationalist British feminism?. Tomorrow 4-6pm at The Women's Library @LSELibrary. Join us to explore the intertwined histories of British feminism & global fights for reproductive justice . OG 70s magazines . Free tickets >>
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You can now find Liberating Histories on Bluesky - @liberatinghistorys . If you follow us here, please follow us there too! .
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@Gender_Journal @nonunadimeno For Hanashiro, 'the hashtag establishes an alternative interpretive framework that not only makes legible a range of cases as expressions of rape culture but also confronts dominant narratives that re-victimize survivors and conceal the systemic roots of sexual violence.'. # # #.
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@Gender_Journal @nonunadimeno Speaking of the uses of hashtags - . Nae Hanashiro's article '#PerúPaísDeVioladores: a hashtag constellation against sexual violence' is out now at @Gender_Journal .
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In October 2017, in parallel to the viralization of the #MeToo hashtag, feminist movements in Peru flooded social media using another hashtag to confront rape culture. #PerúPaísDeVioladores – #Peru...
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@Gender_Journal @nonunadimeno in this piece, Rastogi looks at 'the magazine as an archive of how these women mediated their political demands, activism and understanding of relevant issues to audiences within and outside their communities' . out now @Gender_Journal
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@Gender_Journal @nonunadimeno V excited to announce that Vartika Rastogi's article on Mukti - the 1st academic article devoted solely to this important South Asian feminist magazine - is out now!. 'Towards liberation: uncovering the principles of feminist mediation in Mukti magazine' .
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This paper examines Mukti, a hitherto underappreciated feminist magazine that sought to engage, politicize, and aid organization amongst South Asian women in Britain between 1983 and 1987. Looking ...
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For a vital insight into contemporary South Korean feminist movements -- read Euisol Jeong's recent article for our special issue, which focuses on the work of the Silent Megaphone feminist art collective and shifting feminist practice from the digital to the offline sphere.
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My article on digital feminist art activism in South Korea is out in the Journal of Gender Studies. If you're curious about what Korean digital feminists and 4B practitioners are doing beyond the online sphere, you can read it here:
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@Gender_Journal @nonunadimeno Dorothy Kidd's article 'Feminist media makers in the San Francisco Bay area' out now @Gender_Journal !. Kidd documents 2 long-standing media projects, ‘Voices of the Native Nations’, a community radio program & the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.
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This article documents two long-standing media projects in the San Francisco Bay area. ‘Voices of the Native Nations’, a community radio program, and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QW...
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Did someone say lesbian renaissance? . From the L-word of the early 1990s to the lipstick lovers of the 2020s, our podcast on feminist lesbian magazine @DIVAmagazine with current & founding editors @RoxyBourdillon & @francespushkin traces a long arc .
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@Gender_Journal @nonunadimeno Hot off the press: Tessa Maxwell's fascinating exploration of the afterlife of the New Zealand feminist magazine Broadsheet (1972-1997). '"Cool articles from way back when": appropriations and reanimations of the New Zealand feminist magazine Broadsheet'.
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This article addresses ‘transition’ within feminist media activism by exploring how archival material is reanimated and mobilized within contemporary forms of online activism. Recent scholarship ex...
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Excited for our workshop at the wonderful @womenslibrary in Glasgow on 7 December! . Get your free ticket through the link below 👇.
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Activist periodicals of the 1970s-90s powered, connected & sustained the UK Women’s Liberation Movement. Join us to find out more about @LibHistories & contribute your own thoughts & ideas to our understanding of how the power of print mobilised a movement.
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RT @RevPapers: We are proud to announce the @RevPapers Special Issue with @RadHistReview on Anticolonial Periodicals from the Global South….
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here's @RoRabz (far left) and other Bad Attitude collective members dismantling the Houses of Parliament on the first issue's iconic front cover
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with big thanks to @RoRabz for talking to us about her experience of working on Bad Attitude !.
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we've just added BAD ATTITUDE to our periodicals guide! 😈. A radical feminist bi-monthly magazine produced out of the anarchist squat centre at 121 Railton Rd, Brixton, it combined a Riot Grrrl aesthetic with a highly class-conscious feminism. Read more:
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@Gender_Journal @nonunadimeno We've also published Leslie Shade and Kenneth Werbin's article:. 'What Hath Dobbs Wrought? Abortion activism in precarious and punitive times'. on how analogue forms of activism are still used to counter forms of 'abortion surveillance' in the digital age.
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In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) overturned Roe v. Wade (1973), abolishing the constitutional right to abortion. Significant in its radica...
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RT @Femarchivenorth: Join us at this free event to discuss Feminist Archive North’s historical collections relating to the Electrical Assoc….
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Please join us to discuss the University’s historical collections and reflect on the EAW’s legacy.
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A great find in Bad Attitude 7 (1994): . A letter from an Irish Republican woman in Maghaberry Gaol, N. Ireland, thanking the collective for sending her an issue of the magazine covering the situation of imprisoned Irish women in 1993 - which only just got past the prison censor
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Bringing magazine making to life in these Periodicals Guide clips ✨📹 . Here's Penny Remfry describing the production of Scarlet Women, a socialist-feminist periodical published out of North-East England, using a Gestetner, wax paper and plenty of TipEx.
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