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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · May 13

Today!

Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?

Find out at the Women's Library, LSE 4-6pm

+ leaf through feminist magazines from the 70s-80s

free tickets below >>

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Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?

Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · May 12

Tomorrow! 4-6pm at The Women's Library LSE

Join us to explore the intertwined histories of British feminism and global fights for reproductive justice

You'll also be able to look at original magazines of the 70s-80s from the Women's Library collection

Free tickets below >>>

Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · May 6

'Whatever happened to an internationalist British feminism?' Join @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social in LSE Library on 13 May at 4pm to consider the question with an opportunity to look through women's liberation journals of the 1970s and 1980s. More details here:

Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?

Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · May 12

It's tomorrow at 4pm. Find out about the brilliant @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social project and have a look through some women's lib magazines at LSE Library.

Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · May 6

'Whatever happened to an internationalist British feminism?' Join @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social in LSE Library on 13 May at 4pm to consider the question with an opportunity to look through women's liberation journals of the 1970s and 1980s. More details here:

Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?

Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · May 6

'Whatever happened to an internationalist British feminism?' Join @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social in LSE Library on 13 May at 4pm to consider the question with an opportunity to look through women's liberation journals of the 1970s and 1980s. More details here:

Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?

Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Mar 18

Our archive contains over a hundred articles and podcasts related to women’s history!

To celebrate Women’s History Month we asked our editors to pick some of their current favourites ✊🗃️

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Mar 18

Latest in our special issue:

Carla Cerqueira, Célia Taborda, & Ana Sofia Pereira on ‘Contemporary Portuguese feminist activisms through the analysis of the International Feminist Strike website: subversive revolt and counterpower’

Read via the Journal of Gender Studies ✊✊

doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Contemporary Portuguese feminist activisms through the analysis of the International Feminist Strike website: subversive revolt and counterpower

The International Feminist Strike, emerging in 2017, seeks to redefine International Women’s Day (8 March). Its objective is to reclaim and revitalize the day by aligning it with its original purpo...

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Mar 8

& biggest thank you to @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social for putting the special issue together! liberatinghistories.org/liberating-h...

Publications

Publications BACK TO THE FUTURE: FEMINIST MEDIA ACTIVISM IN TRANSITION This special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies was curated by the Liberating Histories project, and co-edited by Pro…

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Mar 3

& just out - Maria Corina Muskus Toro on ‘Hartazgo: #YoTeCreo as an expression of digital feminist activism in Venezuela’

Toro argues that #YoTeCreo was not simply a transplantation of the #MeToo movement & prioritises voices of the global South

Read more here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hartazgo: #YoTeCreo as an expression of digital feminist activism in Venezuela

On 27 April 2021, #YoTeCreo sparked as one of the first major instances of digital feminist activism (DFA) against sexual violence in Venezuela. Women united using both Twitter (since renamed ‘X’) ...

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Mar 3

Also hot off the press: ‘Subaltern testimonies: gender-based violence and mediated activism’ by Sujata Moorti 📹💪🏽

Moorti explores how Yazidi women in Syria and Dalit women in India use digital media to address sexual violence.

Read more here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Subaltern testimonies: gender-based violence and mediated activism

Speak-out rallies have been a key site from which feminists have highlighted the prevalence of sexual violence. From these testimonies, feminists developed a nuanced articulation of the nature of s...

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Mar 3

Excited to announce that ‘Networks of queer reproduction in Sappho magazine (1972-81)’ by Rebecca Close is out now 🌐✨

This piece is part of our special issue on Feminist
Media in Transition for the Journal of Gender Studies

Read it here!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Networks of queer reproduction in Sappho magazine (1972–1981)

In 1978 the London Evening News ran a series of ‘exposés’ on the UK lesbian organization and magazine Sappho and their Artificial Insemination by Donor (A.I.D) network. This article situates the Sa...

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 28

From episode 3, Black British feminism

Stella Dadzie on the relationship between Black feminists & the women's movement in the 1970s-80s:

'We didn't have the luxury of introspection that allowed us simply to focus on patriarchy'

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Jan 25

A little niche, our Leftie Book of the Day: Big Flame, the only socialist/feminist group named after a TV programme. 200 members at most, in the 70s/80s. The best bits are people writing about what they did afterwards: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/big-flame-building-the-movements-new-politics/

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jan 24

#OtD 23 Jan 1913 10,000 clothing workers went on strike in Rochester, NY for an 8 hour day, a 10% wage increase, union recognition and better benefits. Ended in April after employers agreed not to discriminate against union members stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jan 24

OTD in 2021: abortion became legal in Argentina.

This piece from our archive uncovers the feminist and LGTBIQ+ alliance which led an influential campaign advocating bodily autonomy for all those with the capacity to conceive ✊🗃️

No uterus, no opinion? Travestis, Gays & Maricas’ Activism for the Abortion Legalization in Argentina

How did the movements for bodily autonomy by those without the capacity to conceive - travestis, maricas, and gays – contribute to Argentina's recent legalization of abortion? Marce Butierrez and Patr...

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 24

In episode 2 of the Liberating Histories podcast, FOR GIRLS, BY GIRLS, we brought together Sally Orson-Jones of Shocking Pink & Ione Gamble of Polyester Zine to discuss girlhood in feminist magazines now and then ✂️ 🎀 💻

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 24

Excited to see brilliant new exhibition

'Animated Activism: Women Empowered'

feat. work by feminist collective Leeds Animation Workshop & Women's Aid Federation

on in Leeds until December 2025!

@leedsanimation.bsky.social
@leedsunilibraries.bsky.social

library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Animated Activism: Women Empowered

An exhibition to get angry about.

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 22

This also looks excellent!

Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · Jan 22

And the book exists online! Available in July this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/

Manchester University Press - Unhappy mothers

Unhappy mothers - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Unhappy mothers by Sarah Crook

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 22

In episode 1, we speak to the legendary Sue O'Sullivan of Spare Rib & Shaila Shah of Outwrite about UK feminism's 'international turn' in the early 80s 🎙️

Shaila: 'women in other countries had different priorities & a Western feminist agenda could not dictate' 🔥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7QM...

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 22

To find out more about Liberating Histories, tune into our podcast series 🎙️

It explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines ✨

Listen wherever you get your podcasts: liberatinghistories.org/podcast-seri...

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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social · Jan 15

Are you on the pathway to becoming an archivist & looking to put theory into practice? Or perhaps you have previous archive experience & would like to refresh your cataloguing skills &/or gain experience in a different setting?

Find out more & apply here:
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/01/09/a...

Archive volunteer recruitment | Glasgow Women's Library

GWL houses a truly unique collection of materials relating to diverse women’s lives and contributions. Our collection include materials documenting women’s role in: activism, work…

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 22

this looks excellent

Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · Dec 19

📢 Hot off Press New Book Alert 📢. 1/2: With @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social we are exited to share our new co-edited book that demands a re-think of histories of welfare in modern Britain. Fully OA. Links to all chapters to follow & our Chap 1 Intro 👇
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 22

also by this foray into loneliness.. the subject of one of the chapters of our forthcoming monograph on feminist periodicals and networks of feeling

Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Jan 20

No is not a lonely utterance. Written with affection. And other fighting feelings! feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/no-is-not-...

No is Not a Lonely Utterance

I have been immersed in writing No is Not a Lonely Utterance and have just now sent a revised version back to my editor at Penguin.

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 22

We're intrigued by the Spare Rib headstone

Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Nov 25

I have started a newsletter, which is really more of a killjoy diary so that is the title of the first post. Hopefully, more to follow. Even shorter and snappier if I can manage it.

It will remain free.

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A Killjoy Diary

The title of this post is a reference to what I hope to be doing in writing this newsletter.

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Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social · Dec 19

Only a month to go until the CfP deadline for the 'Legacies of Section 28' conference, which will bring together historians, educators and activists to explore the context and impact of the legislation. Send in your abstracts and please share with your networks! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...

Legacies of Section 28 – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS

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Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social · Jan 22

Liberating Histories tells the stories of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement through feminist magazines like Spare Rib, Red Rag, Mukti, Shocking Pink & many more

Explore our podcast series, publications, reader testimonies, teaching resources & periodicals guide here:

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