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As of January 2015, a valuable anarchist history resource, The Emma Goldman Papers archive, is being defunded by University of California, Berkeley, and will have to close if alternative funding can’t be found soon. The 34-year-old archive is currently the …
Someone who certainly knows this is Cat, the heroine of My So-Called Secret Identity, a comic created by Prof Will Brooker, Susan Shore and Dr Sarah Zaidan. Superheroine Cat is the smartest person in Gloria City. She remembers everything she …
Mara Clarke, Founder and Director of Abortion Support Network, discusses ASN’s latest campaign in this guest blog post for the Feminist Library: Abortion Support Network launches crowdfunding campaign to support their work helping women in N/Ireland What would you do …
Guest Post: Mara Clarke – The Rich get Richer, the Poor have Children Read more »
On Tuesday we had a wonderful introduction meeting with a group of new volunteers, who are keen to get involved in the library as we build up to our 40th anniversary celebrations. During the meeting, we explained the history of …
Last year I heard about a new social concept organised by some feminists in London: women should let their body hair grow freely in the month of November to challenge British gender norms. At the time I couldn’t really understand why …
Guest Post: Georgina Harmsworth – Forget Movember, We Need Norm-ember! Read more »
The Young London Feminists on the Matt Taylor #Shirtstorm: It’s safe to say that Matt Taylor’s bowling shirt has started off a wave (or more pointedly, ‘Shirtstorm’) of debate that left us at Young Feminists London a little unsure of …
Guest Post: Alice Procter – A Response to Matt Taylor’s Shirt Read more »
I wish I could wax lyrical about all the reasons why I’m a fan of libraries – but there’s neither space nor time. However, take it as read: I’m passionate about libraries. I’m passionate about feminism. There, I said it. …
Guest Post: Rosie Garland – A Passion for Libraries Read more »
Huge excitement here as we receive our feminist poster donated by Sarah Maple. I had seen this poster whilst looking around the wonderful Mayday Rooms in preparation for our forthcoming workshop that will be taking place there. I contacted Sarah …
On Saturday 8th of November, the Feminist Library held a day long Feminist Graphic Arts Event for a second year. The day included a zine launch and exhibition opening ‘A Feminist Space is..’ and a programme of talks by the …
At Feminism in London on Saturday 25th of October, Yasmin, who volunteers with the Collections Team and is a librarian by profession, gave a fabulous presentation on the values, purpose and relevance of the FL during the workshop Feminist Archives …
