What happens at a feminist meet-up....thinking of starting one!

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I have tried to find a feminist group in our city, but the ones I can find advertised are on the 'woke' end of the spectrum and I'm wondering whether to start something with a small group of friends. Can anyone give me any ideas of what would be good to do as although I am not new to feminism, I am not very confident organising groups and feel rather clueless! I'm thinking of having a book-club type discussion time, and doing some flyering with FPFW leaflets, but not sure what else! Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

If you contact one of the established groups online, such as Object or FPFW, they may have some tips. I found some likeminded ladies in this way.

Thank you. I have just messaged Object. I contacted FPFW a few months ago but they didn't get back to me.

A book club/sewing bee/knitting/swap meet/recipe group is perfect as it enables women who wouldn't be able to attend a feminist group.

Women used to have consciousness raising groups back in the day, have a google and use some ideas.
www.thoughtco.com/feminist-consciousness-raising-groups-3528954

You could start a small lending library;
tinyurl.com/Fembooks1

watching thread with interest.

actually I'm in a readers group which is all female (xx) and find we are veering towards discussing feminism this last year or so.

Have a look for ReSisters United as well - guaranteed GC Lovely new groups around the UK and Ireland campaigning for women. You might have a local one, or they will help you set up if you wish. Several of them are active on Twitter - it's very heartening to browse them.

They had a wonderful campaign earlier this year putting adult human female t-shirts on public statues - it was great to see photos being posted from all around the UK.

For what to do, that's up to your group As you say, book group and leafletting are great ideas. Craft is a nice one if you've people interested - there was a nice crafters thread last year with some lovely items or make a banner - look for Leeds Spinners and their fabulous banners.

The GRA consultation report was scheduled for spring 2019, so we need to keep that in mind, if possible. If you haven't contacted MPs, please try to, or get back to them if they're shilly-shallying. They're the people who are going to decide this.

Good luck!

I started one, with a few people from a local mums FB group who responded to a post about the GRA consultation, and some MNers we found, and then some more friends of friends have joined and we've also linked up with other groups in the county.

I just called it xxx Feminists in the Pub, and it does what it says on the packet. We meet up once in a while... Firstly just to talk about this stuff and secondly to take action (writing to our MP together, going on the MWR march...) It is really good to talk to people in real life.

I think it depends how "organised" you're prepared to be! I go to a feminist meetup which is loosely classed as consciousness raising, i.e. we just meet to talk about the issues of the day with other feminist women. We might go to the odd march or event that we think merits our support but we haven't organised anything of our own for a while. I think this is mostly because it takes a lot of energy and effort to get something like that off the ground and you ideally need several people who have the time to do it.