Tuesday 6 March 2012

Last week in black feminists...

It's been a busy week for us. In the past 7 days, we have spoken and conducted a workshop at the NUS Black Students Conference, had a great time at our March meeting talking, sharing and planning and come up with really exciting plans for our new website. We have also been...

... writing about:
  • the Oscar win for Octavia Spencer for The Help
  • Black women, media and representation in response to this article

... talking and reading about:
  • street harassment - we're now a co-sponsor of stop street harassment
  • Rihanna, Chris Brown, domestic violence and victim blaming
  • battle of the complexions - prompted by this event held to celebrate black history month
  • attitudes to sex and violence, including those hold by young people
  • the resurrection of David Starkey on the BBC
  • the 'white-washing' of the British empire
  • Whitney Houston
  • Kwame Nkrumah's declaration of Ghana's independence - 55 years ago on 6th March 1957
  • where are the feminist men?
  • the threatened deportation of Amanpreet Kaur (watch this space for more details)
  • the international struggle to end apartheid after watching these excellent documentaries
  • race, poverty and geography in the UK after seeing this poverty map
  • making militarism visible, an exhibition developed by New Profile - the movement for the civil-isation of Israeli society
  • Iroquois women and empowerment

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