If you are interested in meeting us and trying your hand at a bit of cataloguing, we will be having a Cataloguing Day at the library soon – register your interest by emailing us at collections@feministlibrary.co.uk

A meeting to hear what is happening and plan action

Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7XW

On hearing about the threatened closure of the History Dept at London Met, where Lucy Bland, one of this country’s most respected feminist historians, works, we at the Feminist Library started thinking that there ought to be a concerted feminist outcry about what is happening in our universities. It’s about more than Women’s Studies. It’s about the fact that the Humanities in general, which are studied by more women than men, are under particular attack, it’s about older women returning to study, it’s about a woman lecturer being threatened with redundancy because she was on maternity leave when the axe started falling in her university, and she too teaches a subject, not Humanities, where most of her students are women, and of course it’s also about racism and classism and all the other ways that women get systematically dumped on, both within academia and without.

At the meeting we will hear about the many problems women are facing in Higher Education from a number of different perspectives.

Speakers will include:

Lucy Bland (London Metropolitan University), Patrizia di Bello (Birkbeck, University of London), Women Against the Cuts, UKUncut, Women’s Budget Group, women student activists, and others to be confirmed.

This will be followed by an exchange of ideas about actions we can take and alliances we can make. Please spread this information around your networks.  Everyone is welcome.

The library will be open from 2pm on Thursday – do come and look around before the meeting.

The Feminist Library hopes to hold further meetings on how the cuts affect women in different areas, e.g. health, school education, disability, housing, social services.  If you have other ideas or would like to contribute in any way, please contact us at admin@feministlibrary.co.uk or 020 7261 0879.  Unfortunately, we have restricted disabled access, so please also contact us to see how we can help.

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The night will be divided between show and workshop, in the first part the choir will sing some feminist songs and in the second part there will be a more interactive part of the evening where we can all get to learn the songs.

There will also be food and you’ll be able to share the evening with amazing people, with the added bonus of the opportunity to visit the Library and get a copy of our amazing newsletter. If you have missed the fun of the Birthday Benefit, you can still pick up a programme and buy one of the limited edition tote bags.

entry on donation (suggested £3) – please RSVP here and invite all your friends

Please note that there are 9 steps up from the entrance, and then a lift to the upper floors. Please contact us on events@feministlibrary.co.uk for more precise info.

Please follow @feministlibrary on Twitter to get a live commentary of this event.

Entryon donation, suggested £3. Please visit Facebook for more details.

Please note that there are 9 steps up from the entrance, and then a lift to the upper floors. Please contact us on events@feministlibrary.co.uk for more precise info.

Please follow @feministlibrary on Twitter to get a live commentary of this event.

here is the line up with times

7.30 Doors Open

8.00 Acton Bell
www.myspace.com/actonbelle
Singer and guitarist playing Merseybeat songs & ’60s hits

8.25 Portia Winters
www.myspace.com/portiawinters
Experimental songs with voice, guitar and electrics

8.40 Kat Austen
www.katausten.com
www.myspace.com/katausten/

9.05 Interval

9.20 Helen McCookerybook
www.myspace.com/helenmccookerybook
Artist, blogger, book author and musician she’s been defined a posh female Chuck Berry

9.45 Elizabeth Carola
old protest songs with audience participation!

and to top it all off

“The Kitchen Quartet”, London’s all-female barbershop extravaganza!

There will also be food and you’ll be able to share the evening with amazing people, with the added bonus of the opportunity to visit the Library and get a copy of our amazing newsletter

entry on donation (suggested £3) – please RSVP  here and invite all your friends

for any enquiry please email us on events@feministlibrary.co.uk

Join us at the Round Chapel from 7pm to find music, comedy, drinks, cakes, dancing and, of course, lots of good people.

The venue is fully accessible. We will be running a licensed bar, with cakes too.

Friendly feminist people of all ages and genders welcome.

RSVP to our Facebook event and invite your friends!

Here is a list of available positions:

• artist liaison – to take care of the acts
• stage crew – to help the stage manager
• stalls manager – to organise the booking & setting up of stalls, and assist stall holders
• stalls crew – to cover the Library’s stall and help the stalls’ manager
• drinks manager – to take care of the bar: stocking up and making sure we don’t run out of drinks
• bar staff – to cover the bar
• raffle manager – to organise the raffle and source prizes
• stewards – to help with setting up the venue and during the event
• ticket manager/door staff – to organise ticket sales, wristbands and cover the door at the event

If any of these roles sound like something you could be interested in, email us on volunteer@feministlibrary.co.uk or come in to the Library to discuss the event and the available positions in more detail. Feel free to pass this on to your friends and help us spread the word.

Are your bookshelves full to breaking point? Do you want to give friends something more interesting than a set of celebrity perfumes this festive season? Come to our Bring-and-Buy Book and Bric-a-Brac sale on Saturday 18th December! Join us for a cup of tea, a mince pie and the most radical shopping event of the s

eason.  The Feminist Library will be open during the day too, so you can browse the collection before or after you shop.

Come to Whitehall Place at 6pm on Saturday and look out for the Feminist Library amazing red banner and march with us.

After the march we’ll move to the Camden Centre for the rally and after party, where the Library will have a stall.

See you on Saturday!

18 November at 18.30 on the College Green, Westminster (http://bit.ly/coAGxd) to remember the Suffragettes.

100 years ago, on 18/11/10, two women were injured and later died because they tried to enter Parliament. They were part of a group of Suffragettes who went to the Houses to demand a debate on the Conciliation Bill, a bill that would have given some women basic voting rights. Of the 300 who came, 200 women were arrested that day. There were 6000 police. We call it Black Friday.
100 years have passed since that dark day.
Fewer than 1 in 5 MPs are women. Only 1% of the world’s money is
controlled by women. For every 10 people displaced by climate change, 7 are women.

We stand in vigil to remember the brave women who fought so we might vote. We stand to show solidarity with women across the world who don’t know justice. We stand for those that can’t.
Bring a candle, a jamjar, a banner and a veil. Hear Caroline Lucas MP and Dr Diane Atkinson. Remember the Suffragettes.