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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 2d

In-person tickets for our book launch this coming Sat are available again - thanks to a move to a bigger venue!

🎟️ tinyurl.com/bd63rb4x

With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar

In partnership with @theemmapress.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 2d

Tickets still available for the workshop this coming Saturday #BhamLitFest25 on feminist approaches to translating South Asian literature, led by Kavita Bhanot

🎟️tinyurl.com/2jk529yk

Presented in partnership with @writingwestmids.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social

Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 2d

It's #BhamLitFest25 week!

Thrilled that the #FTN will be part of the programme for the second year running, with two events on Sat 11 Oct, organised with @writingwestmids.bsky.social, @theemmapress.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social

Full programme here: www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

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The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social · 27d

A few months ago we hosted a scratch night for the translators involved in our collab with the Feminist Translation Network. It was an honour to peek behind the scenes of the translations-in-progress, with the translators sharing insights into their processes. Watch the recording: buff.ly/XkswZyU

A screenshot of an online meeting, featuring 7 people and one illustration of flowers

A screenshot of a Word document with various lines of Arabic and English highlighted in different colours, showing a translation process

A picture of a bedsheet decorated with red ribbon stencils and completely covered in black handwriting

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to lovely colleagues at University College Cork for hosting an FTN event as part of UCC's Translation Week 2025 - including an inspiring Feminist Translation Slam with @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Eileen O'Connor, expertly chaired by Elizabeth Rosales Martinez

Translation slam with translators Ruth Donnelly and Eileen O'Connor and chair Elizabeth Rosales Martinez

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 19d

Looking forward to the FTN event at University College Cork next week, part of UCC's "Translation Week" programme for International Translation Day 2025
@olgacastro80.bsky.social @rudotranslates.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 20d

📢 New blog post by Helen Vassallo about her Feminism and Translation workshop at this year's Bristol Translates summer school:

feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/femi...

@translatingwomen.bsky.social @bristoltranslates.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢 New blog post by Eleanor Fillingham, our brilliant undergraduate intern! Eleanor, a Classics student at Birmingham Uni, joined the FTN team for six weeks over the summer thanks to the College of Arts and Law Collaborative Research Internship scheme: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/the-...

Hilary Brown (Principal Investigator), Eleanor Fillingham (undergraduate intern) and Olga Castro (Co-Investigator) at Dragon Hall, Norwich

Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 New blog post from Khadidja Merakchi @heriotwattuni.bsky.social about two feminist author-translators from Algeria, Taos Amrouche and Assia Djebar: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/from...

Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 21

Free tickets for book launch at #BhamLitFest25: tinyurl.com/2f7c8dss

Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm, The Exchange (in-person/online)

With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar

@theemmapress.bsky.social
@writingwestmids.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 21

Calling all translators with an interest in South Asian literature!

Come and join our workshop at #BhamLitFest25, led by Kavita Bhanot

Sat 11 Oct, 10-12, The Exchange, Birmingham

Tickets: tinyurl.com/2jk529yk

Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social

@writingwestmids.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Aug 20

Great to read that one of our #FeministTranslationNetwork events helped to inspire your PhD project, @rudotranslates.bsky.social!

Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social · Aug 20

Latest blog post (and a slightly alarmingly massive photo of my face):
ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/2025/08/20/f...

Feminism Matters, or How I Ended Up Doing a PhD

When I finished my masters, I told myself and everyone around me that there was absolutely no way I was going to do a PhD. No chance. Not in a month of Sundays. I had absolutely had enough of acade…

ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' events in Norwich yesterday, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social & @bcltuea.bsky.social - a lovely mix of reflections on practice, discussion, and poetry readings
#BCLT2025

Panel discussion about 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences'

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is the venue for our #BCLT2025 events today, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social

Thank you to @hughespeg.bsky.social for a backstage tour of beautiful Dragon Hall before the audiences arrived! 🐉

National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall from the outside

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

Looking forward to this discussion about translations of ancient love poetry by feminists and non-feminists through the centuries #BCLT2025

British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Jul 17

Join Jennifer Ingleheart and Josephine Balmer to play ‘translation tag’ with two of the most famous ancient love poets: Sappho and Catullus 💞

Find out more and register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

The British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School is in full swing and we can't wait to join you on Wednesday 30 July for our events on feminist translation! #BCLT2025

British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Jul 11

Join Josephine Balmer, Rebecca DeWald, Jennifer Ingleheart, Fran Olivares Medina, Eva Megias & Sophie Stevens in a roundtable discussion about the place of feminist translation in the contemporary literary landscape.

Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

Last few tickets left for our events on 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' in Norwich this week, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social

Booking links here: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/02/even...

Event 6: Feminist translation and its audiences (symposium/translation ‘tag’) – Feminist Translation Network

feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congratulations to FTN member @rudotranslates.bsky.social 🎉

Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited (and faintly terrified) to announce that I’ve been awarded a bursary to study for a PhD in feminist translation for Latin American children’s literature at University College Cork, starting next Tuesday! What could possibly go wrong?!

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 16

Book launch coming soon!

Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm

With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall, Anam Zafar & Rosalind Harvey

The Exchange, Birmingham & online

Part of Birmingham Literature Festival

Co-organised with @theemmapress.bsky.social

Illustration of a bunch of flowers with text 'An Anthology of New Feminist Translations'

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 16

Save the date!

Workshop on 'Translating South Asian Literature: A Feminist Approach', facilitated by Kavita Bhanot

Sat 11 Oct, 10-12

The Exchange, Centenary Sq, Birmingham

Part of Birmingham Literature Festival @writingwestmids.bsky.social

Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social

Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 8

Brilliant new blog post by Marie Martine about a creative, feminist translation project she ran with undergraduate students in Oxford @queenscollegeox.bsky.social: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/07/femi...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 7

What makes a translation 'feminist'? Catch up with translators Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar discussing their works-in-progress for a new anthology published by @theemmapress.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwP...

Feminist Translation Network: Scratch Night

YouTube video by The Emma Press

www.youtube.com

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 30

Delighted to welcome Eleanor Fillingham to the FTN team! Eleanor is a second-year Classics student and will developing web resources linked to our events @writerscentre.bsky.social (30.07.25) as part of the College of Arts & Law Collaborative Research Internship scheme @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our first academic article is now out! 'Feminist Positionalities in Translation Studies' by Hilary Brown & @gabrielasaldanhav.bsky.social in "Positionalities of Translation Studies", ed. Elsherif & Sobesto @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/positiona...

Positionalities of Translation Studies

This volume explores historical, cultural, linguistic, and anthropocentric influences on Translation Studies (TS). It brings together nuanced, individual, self-…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 18

'Struck' by Susanna Bissoli, "a delicate portrait of a family navigating life's catastrophes", translated by FTN member Georgia Wall - we've heard extracts and are looking forward to publication date! Available to pre-order now: www.lindeneditions.com/shop/p/struc...

Struck by Susanna Bissoli, translated by Georgia Wall (pre-order) to be published 15th July 25 — Linden Editions

www.lindeneditions.com