New feminist group in York

[YorkFeministNetwork]

Hi all, I am a regular who has namechanged for this.

We are setting up a York Feminist Network and as there are lots of feminists on MN I thought it was worth posting it here in case anyone is interested!
York Feminist Network facebook group

I might be interested in this - do you plan to have meetings/events?

ooh that was quick Northernlurker!

We think we would like to have events but don't have any plans yet. What kind of thing would you like?

So far it is basically me and one other person, plus she has 14 other people signed up to a 'would like to meet other feminists' group; hopefully quite a few of those will join.

So the group is young.... and can reflect the interests of its members

WEll personally - I'm a busy working mum and I would like the chance to use my brain in a different way - so discussions and lecture type meetings would be more my thing than say social events . I'm not averse to a bit of campaigning either and as I have three daughters it would be great to have things that I could take them to as they get older. Oldest is 12 - big enough to get interested I think I would really like something to go to about the history of women in York - loads of stuff out there.

Not sure how many things i'd be able to attend (my 8 week old makes things a bit tricky) but will be watching!

Northern - you might find [http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521033374 this] interesting - a book recommended by my lecturer at uni.

Sorry i have no idea what i did wrong there. Just google 'book prostitution york' and its first link.

watching thread.

realising that I have definate feminist tendencies after reading loads on MN.

would find sitting round talking about it a bit intimidating though I think. would probably do a lot of nodding and 'ummming'

would be up for a bit of campaigning also.

That's why I think lectures are a good idea - less scary

That book looks good - will see if the library have it.

I know my fellow setter-upper would be up for a bit of discussion and the odd lecture!
I absolutely love the idea of something on the history of women in York.

Pootles that book looks amazing. Is the author based in York?

I am sure I can get hold of some speakers if there is a market for that kind of thing.

We are going to keep a watching brief for issues to campaign on; so far York is not on the Hooters hitlist as far as I know!

Pootles - I have an 11 month old baby plus 2 older ones so I am very conscious of the need to be child-friendly/mum-friendly in what we organise! My fellow organiser doesn't have children and I think it's rather nice that we have different circumstances as it will stop us being too focused on either one type of issue or the other.

yes you're right Northernlurker. I can nod sagely from the back of an auditorium.

I am an obsessive turner-over of Daily Star/Sun in Jacksons. That's about as far as my feminist activist-ness goes.

this is one of my former lecturers.

There's the centre for women's studies at the university as well.

auditorium may be a bit ambitious to start off with but you are very welcome to nod sagely from a smallish room!

when I was a student the best discussions were always the ones in the pub after the lecture anyway; if we had a formal discussion group it might feel a bit like a seminar! (This is why the Mumsnet online feminism book club is so great - if you can't think of anything to say it doesn't matter because no-one knows you are there.)

yay @ the obsessive turning over of the Sun!
I am too scared to do it in our newsagents as if I got banned I would have nowhere to go to do photocopying.

good point re women's studies centre - must let them know what we are doing.

I have no idea where the author's based, sorry! Might be an idea to drop someone at York St John a line - not sure who actually. Will have a quick look into it. but when i was there there were a couple of lecturers and plenty of students who i'm sure would be interested...

Judy Giles is a Professor at YSJ, she's brilliant, might be worth dropping her a line. I believe she's linked to centre for women's studies also. If you google her you can get an email ad for her at the college.

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Just noticed a lot of mums chatting on ths thread and thought someone might be interested?

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she was trying to sell baby sledges on random MN Local threads

I reported all her posts on the local York ones - they were stickied in my active.

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I'll leave you to your feminist group chats!!