<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Kind of assuming this is women-only<br>?????<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 6/6/11, butterflea@riseup.net <i><butterflea@riseup.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: butterflea@riseup.net <butterflea@riseup.net><br>Subject: [anarchistsoflondon] SlutWalk Discussion Group and Banner Making<br>To: "lafk" <lafk@lists.riseup.net>, "feminist activist forum" <faf@lists.riseup.net>, "anarchists london" <anarchistsoflondon@lists.riseup.net>, "anarchafeminist network" <anarchafeminists@lists.aktivix.org>, slsf@lists.riseup.net<br>Date: Monday, 6 June, 2011, 9:40<br><br><div class="plainMail">SlutWalk Discussion Group and Banner Making Thursday,<br>June 9 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm<br>The Feminist Library<br>5a Westminster Bridge Road,<br>London<br>SE1 7XW<br><a
href="http://feministlibrary.co.uk/2011/06/04/slutwalk-discussion-group-and-banner-making/" target="_blank">http://feministlibrary.co.uk/2011/06/04/slutwalk-discussion-group-and-banner-making/</a><br><br>This is designed as a follow on discussion to the meeting facilitated by<br>Feminist Fightback at Bishopsgate Institute on Wednesday 1st June.<br>Everyone is welcome, even if you’re new to the discussion.<br><br>SlutWalk London will take place on 11 June 2011. The London march occurs<br>just months after the first SlutWalk took place in Toronto in response to<br>a local police officer’s claim that ‘women should avoid dressing like<br>sluts’ if they want to minimise the chance of being raped.<br><br>SlutWalk has attracted a rare degree of mainstream press coverage and<br>provoked much debate among feminists. Do we want to use the word slut? Has<br>SlutWalk been co-opted by the media, just as riot grrl was commodified as<br>‘girl power’? Does
SlutWalk reflect white privilege? Is it just another<br>example of feminism as consumerism? Or do these questions forget the most<br>important thing: that an energetic wave of activism against victim blaming<br>is happening? The Feminist Library has no collective position on SlutWalk.<br>This meeting is designed to facilitate debate.<br><br>We will begin with a general debate, and then we’ll split into smaller<br>discussion groups. After the discussion, the evening will develop into a<br>banner making workshop for those wishing to march on Saturday 11th. Please<br>bring your own materials if you want to make a banner. If you make up your<br>mind during the event, we’re sure we can fit you in and find you things.<br><br>If you have any questions, please contact us at<br><a ymailto="mailto:admin@feministlibrary.co.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=admin@feministlibrary.co.uk">admin@feministlibrary.co.uk</a> or 020 7261 0879.<br>Unfortunately, we have
restricted disabled access, so please also contact<br>us to see how we can help.<br><br>Facebook Event: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219748344710233" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219748344710233</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>