From gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk  Thu May 19 16:59:50 2011
From: gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk (Gail Chester)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:59:50 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Women, Higher Education, and the Cuts -- 26th May
Message-ID: <6C8ACFECA3B74C25B0BE445F92525FC3@Gail>

WOMEN, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE CUTS
Thursday 26th May  2011   6-9 p.m.
A meeting to hear what is happening and plan action

Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW

On hearing about the threatened closure of the History Dept at London Met, where Lucy Bland, one of this country's most respected feminist historians, works, we at the Feminist Library started thinking that there ought to be a concerted feminist outcry about what is happening in our universities. It's  about more than Women's Studies. It's about the fact that the Humanities in general, which are studied by more women than men, are under particular attack, it's about older women returning to study, it's about a woman lecturer being threatened with redundancy because she was on maternity leave when the axe started falling in her university, and she too teaches a subject, not Humanities, where most of her students are women, and of course it's also about racism and classism and all the other ways that women get systematically dumped on, both inside academia and without.

At the meeting we will hear about the many problems women are facing in Higher Education from a number of different perspectives.

Speakers will include:
Lucy Bland (London Metropolitan University), Patrizia Di Bello (Birkbeck, University of London), Women Against the Cuts, UKUncut, women student activists, Women's Budget Group, and others to be confirmed.

This will be followed by an exchange of ideas about actions we can take and alliances we can make. Please spread this information around your networks. 
Everyone is welcome.

The Feminist Library hopes to hold further meetings on how the cuts affect women in different areas, e.g. health, school education, disability, housing, social services.  If you have other ideas or would like to contribute in any way, please contact us at admin at feministlibrary.co.uk or 020 7261 0879.  Unfortunately, we have restricted disabled access, so please also contact us to see how we can help.

www.feministlibrary.co.uk

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From melvegan at gmail.com  Tue May 24 13:50:19 2011
From: melvegan at gmail.com (Mel Vegan)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:50:19 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fwd: [feminist-fightback] Politics of Slutwalk:
	Reading group and discussion
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Reading group and discussion on the politics of Slutwalk.
7-9pm 1st June, Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate, London E1 (opposite
Liverpool St station)

On 11th June Slutwalk London are inviting women to participate in a march
against rape, which stresses that women should be free from fear of sexual
violence however they dress or choose to express their sexuality.
This march raises interesting questions and has provoked some important
critiques regarding the intersections of race, class and sexuality. The
possibility of reclaiming the word slut has been called into question, with
some women of colour feminists suggesting that this assumes a (white,
middle-class) position of relative power and privilege which marginalises
BME
women. Another, related, critique is that the right to free sexual
expression
promoted by the march in fact relates only to a very narrow definition of
sexuality.
One particularly important question is how Slutwalk will/ has been presented
and re-appropriated in the mainstream media, potentially hegemonising a
white
middle-class vision of feminism and silencing other forms of women?s
struggle
in the process.

We think that Slutwalk?s aim to show that ?whatever we wear and wherever we
go, yes means yes and no means no? is enormously important. Particularly
when
a senior Tory minister has just stated that rapes are distinguishable, and
therefore that some are more serious than others. This view is obviously
troubling, not least because it plays into the still wide spread assumption
that some women have some level of responsibility for being raped, and that
?real? rapes are those involving a high degree of physical force and
violence.

We would like, however, to use Slutwalk and the responses it has elicited as
an
opportunity to engage with the challenges of building an anti-racist
feminist
movement ? one which recognises that women?s identities and experiences are
often constructed differently according to race, class and sexuality. This
means taking seriously the various critiques that have emerged, taking the
time
to discuss them and to consider how and/or if an intersectional feminist
politics can be made visible on the day of the march.

As a first step we will be meeting to discuss some of the most prominent
articles and critiques about Slutwalk (see below for a list of short
readings).
We will be contacting many other feminist, anti-racist and queer collectives
to
begin a dialogue on these questions which we hope will continue well after
the
march.

Everyone (including all genders) is welcome to come along to this initial
open
discussion on Wednesday 1st June, 7-9pm, Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate
E1
(opposite Liverpool Street Station).

http://selftravels2010.livejournal.com/2497.html

http://shareorshelve.blogspot.com/2011/05/reclaim-lexis-continued-from-yesterday.html

http://tothecurb.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/slutwalk-a-stroll-through-white-supremacy/

http://somewhatofsomethingother.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/i-am-not-a-slut-so-i-didnt-go-to-slutwalk/

And a pod cast of debate featuring Slutwalk organisers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11
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From butterflea at riseup.net  Thu May 26 09:32:53 2011
From: butterflea at riseup.net (butterflea at riseup.net)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 02:32:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Reminder: Women,
	Higher Education and the Cuts - Tonight
Message-ID: <3f639187d3380feda1a1b5ab499d1e1f.squirrel@tern.riseup.net>

WOMEN, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE CUTS
Thursday 26th May  2011   6-9 p.m.
A meeting to hear what is happening and plan action

Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW

On hearing about the threatened closure of the History Dept at London Met,
where Lucy Bland, one of this country's most respected feminist
historians, works, we at the Feminist Library started thinking that there
ought to be a concerted feminist outcry about what is happening in our
universities. It's  about more than Women's Studies. It's about the fact
that the Humanities in general, which are studied by more women than men,
are under particular attack, it's about older women returning to study,
it's about a woman lecturer being threatened with redundancy because she
was on maternity leave when the axe started falling in her university, and
she too teaches a subject, not Humanities, where most of her students are
women, and of course it's also about racism and classism and all the other
ways that women get systematically dumped on, both inside academia and
without.

At the meeting we will hear about the many problems women are facing in
Higher Education from a number of different perspectives.

Speakers will include:
Lucy Bland (London Metropolitan University), Patrizia Di Bello (Birkbeck,
University of London), Women Against the Cuts, UKUncut, women student
activists, Women's Budget Group, and others to be confirmed.

This will be followed by an exchange of ideas about actions we can take
and alliances we can make. Please spread this information around your
networks.
Everyone is welcome.

The Feminist Library hopes to hold further meetings on how the cuts affect
women in different areas, e.g. health, school education, disability,
housing, social services.  If you have other ideas or would like to
contribute in any way, please contact us at admin at feministlibrary.co.uk or
020 7261 0879.  Unfortunately, we have restricted disabled access, so
please also contact us to see how we can help.

www.feministlibrary.co.uk

facebook page for this event
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=211317702232021























From nickdrake at kitserve.org.uk  Tue May 31 15:02:42 2011
From: nickdrake at kitserve.org.uk (nickdrake)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:02:42 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Meeting: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of
 the Luddite Uprisings: Technology Politics Then and Now
Message-ID: <5f1890234ae15aedc8cd96c3e273808e@secure.kitserve.org.uk>

 now with a speaker from the CWU on how new technology is replacing 
 workers!

 helen



 Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Luddite Uprisings: 
 Technology Politics Then
 and Now


 Date: Wednesday June 8th, 7pm

 Venue: Feminist Library meeting room, 5a Westminster Bridge Road, 
 London SE1 7XW,
 Nearest tube Lambeth North,

 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154817494584557

 Organised by: Luddites200 Organising Forum luddites200 at yahoo.co.uk
 www.luddites200.org.uk

 No admission charge, donations welcome.  Please contact organisers 
 about disabled
 access.

 In 1811-12 artisan cloth workers in the Midlands and North of England 
 rose up
 against factory owners who were imposing new machines and putting 
 them out of work.
 Since the 1950s the Luddites have been painted as fools opposed to 
 all technology
 and progress, but in fact the Luddites were very selective in their 
 attacks,
 breaking only machines they thought were 'hurtful to Commonality'.

 What can the Luddites teach us about the ongoing use of technology to 
 replace
 workers' jobs, as well as issues like GM food, nuclear power, 
 reproductive
 technology and surveillance?  Can we escape the myth that technology 
 always brings
 progress?  On the anniversary of the first action against a GM crop 
 site in Britain,
 come and discuss the issues with speakers from the Luddites200 
 Organising Forum,
 Stop GM, a trade union activist, and the Stop Nuclear Network.

 PLUS! Luddite entertainment and CAKE



