Sheffield Feminist Archive
@ShefFemArchive
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A volunteer-run community archive for all, documenting feminist activism in the Steel City! 🔩🌿🪧🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Our #WomenInLockdown digital archive is live ↓
Sheffield, England
Joined February 2016
🧵: It's 1 March, which means one thing – it's time for #WomenMakeSheffield! Each day throughout #WomensHistoryMonth, we'll tweet about the women, feminists & collectives who've helped make Sheffield the best city in the world. Help us celebrate their contributions! ⬇️ #WHM2023
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My piece for @nowthenmag about British Black & South Asian activist movements in the 70s/80s
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Communities of colour in Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham, and London laid the pathway in the 70s for modern activism.
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👋 We're looking to commission 3 artists (based in Sheffield/South Yorkshire, any discipline/medium) to engage creatively with media narratives on borders as part of our Give Over project. The deadline for expressions of interest is 7 May. More info 👇 https://t.co/GpZ1Tnv8lT
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Give Over will commission three artists working in any discipline to use border abolitionist frameworks to respond artistically to racist reporting of immigration and refugees. Deadline for interest:...
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@LibHistories are seeking reader testimonies from those whose lives were impacted by reading feminist magazines - find out more & contribute here ⬇️
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Reader Testimonies Our reader testimonies are fundamental to our project. They record the experiences of real readers of feminist magazines. If you’d like us to include your story in our arch…
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We need your help! If you contributed to The Radical Bookseller – whether you wrote an article, provided an illustration, or took a photograph - we would love to hear from you: https://t.co/aXBf3R2zk7
@HousmansBooks
@ARBooksellers
@Bookmarks_books
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#Sheffield, our next #ReclaimTheFrame event: Lynne Ramsay's seminal RATCATCHER🌾in all its restored 4k glory. A coming of age story against the backdrop of strikes in Glasgow 📍@showroomcinema 📅Fri 12 April, 6pm 💬 Intro'd by filmmaker @Debbie_Howard1 🎟️ https://t.co/aIR2mk0zVq
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#Sheffield! #ReclaimTheFrame will be back at @showroomcinema with #SilverHaze 🎡✨🏳️🌈, a queer working class story reuniting director Sacha Polak & actor @VickyKnight95 (Dirty God), join us for a conversation with Vicky herself 📅 Sun 17 March, 2.15pm 🎟️ https://t.co/CcVEfsPYDA
Next up for #ReclaimTheFrame... Sacha Polak's captivating SILVER HAZE 🎡✨ 15 years after the traumatic childhood fire that left her scarred, Franky is obsessed with the grudges of her past, when a new relationship takes her on a transformative journey. 📽️ 29 March
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I recently featured Sheffield Feminist Archive @ShefFemArchive in a postgraduate course I teach (Subject: "Social Movements and Archiving") by utilizing the article written by Rosa Sadler and Andrew Martin Cox (2018) and SFA's website. https://t.co/PFF9C7hEHA
◆Sadler, Rosa and Andrew Martin Cox, 2018, "'Civil Disobedience' in the Archive: Documenting Women's Activism and Experience Through the Sheffield Feminist Archive", Archives and Records, 39(2): 158-173, DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2017.1387523 @ShefFemArchive
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Congratulations to @desreereynolds on having the film adaptation of her book “Born on Sunday Silent” launched today at Samuel Worth Chapel in #Sheffield. Further credit to filmmaker @Eelyn1 for her genius on this. Great to see a Sheffield cast including @BelOdawa @RwothOmack etc
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📢Join our crew! We're on the lookout for MigMatFest23 volunteers, outgoing and friendly individuals who can support us with event stewarding, translating and making sure visitors have a great time in Sheffield.
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Want to meet other queer and trans parents? Come along to this!
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👀 SAVE THE DATE 👀 Migration Matters Festival is back for 2023! 📅 June 16-24. 📍 Venues across Sheffield. 🎵🕺🏿 🎭 60+ amazing arts events celebrating migration. Watch this space for exciting lineup details coming soon. #sheffield
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✨ EARLY-CAREER / ASPIRING CREATIVES OF ANY DISCIPLINE✨ are you interested in developing skills and gaining experience in a theatre alongside the (🧡award winning🧡) @crucibletheatre team? last day to apply for this unmissable opportunity!
We’re very excited to launch the New Dramaturgs Group! We’re looking for five early-career creatives to explore and develop their skills with us. Applications close on Tue 4 April. Find out more about the scheme here: https://t.co/efKK1gZJa4
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what a lovely list to be on! very happy to have found a home in Sheffield, and @ShefFemArchive and their brilliant work have helped me realise just that
Maryam Jameela (@yammatron) is a writer & researcher who specialises in critiquing Islamophobia & remaking trauma frameworks with a view to anti-racist work. Maryam's also a regular @NowThenMag contributor – check out her work: https://t.co/zB57rAlBii
#WomenMakeSheffield #WHM2023
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This is just the start of reclaiming Pride, see you all on Saturday
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Happy TDoV. It's been a year since I wrote this article, it feels at once increasingly relevant and somehow also a relic, it documents a hope that I'm not sure I still have. https://t.co/MXf9NgwXTA
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"We are told that we are destined for flames, so we throw ourselves onto the pyre." On Trans Day of Visibility, Tommi Bryson considers the risks and rewards of being openly, visibly trans.
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...and with that, it's the end of #WomensHistoryMonth & the end of this year's #WomenMakeSheffield thread! We'll keep tweeting about local feminist & community organising and history long after March is over, so pls follow us here & on Instagram: https://t.co/PX0WQBpaiX
#WHM2023
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