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2 February 2021

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RT @LabWomenDec: exhausted after the previous day's @Womans_Place_UK fantastic #WomensLib2020 conference, we shared food, ideas & plans. A few weeks later on 9th March we organised our #ExpelMe rally. Then lockdown & online organising. Then ...

February 2nd @ 2:58 pm |

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RT @LabWomenDec: 1 yr ago today, we held our first UK-wide meeting for gender critical women in Labour to build on our Declaration. We had to organise & meet in secret due to to the threat levels against women, which continue today. 100 ...

February 2nd @ 2:58 pm |

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RT @centreWJ: In 2017 we embarked on extensive piece of research with @justice4women to examine the criminal justice response to women who kill men who have been abusive to them. Our report will be published on 17th Feb alongside a free launch event ...

February 2nd @ 2:58 pm |

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Thank you for all the suggestions for #OurFeministLibrary The shelves are bursting with great titles by great women. Keep them coming and the # will be an online resource until we find a building big enough to hold them all... https://t.co/lahdNS...

February 2nd @ 1:05 pm |

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RT @ClaireShrugged: 📖 Pornography 📖 Intercourse 📖 Right-Wing Women Andrea Dworkin’s writing holds the answers to some of today’s most pressing feminist issues: the mainstreaming of pornography, the normalisation of far right politics, and the problem ...

February 2nd @ 11:46 am |

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RT @ClaireShrugged: 📖 Surviving Sexual Violence, by @ProfLizKelly 📖 Sexual Violence: The Reality for Women, by The London Rape Crisis Centre Two groundbreaking texts on women’s experiences of men’s sexual violence. Helpful resources for ...

February 2nd @ 11:39 am |

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RT @sally_paradise: @Womans_Place_UK One more for #OurFeministLibrary please! Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon. It's got everything; migration, labour relations, working class and community power, sex relations, family, race, lesbianism, cross ...

February 2nd @ 11:39 am |

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RT @WomensBudgetGrp: Digital Webinar: Join us to explore current system of Shared Parental Leave in UK, the impact on gender equality & what a new system should look like. https://t.co/S6Gjgz... @soniasodha @MaternityAction @Jules_Allen_ ...

February 2nd @ 9:36 am |

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RT @CarolinejGoode: @K_IngalaSmith I’m going to shyly put forward my book , “ Honour - achieving justice for Banaz Mahmod”. It’s a true account of a woman murdered in the name of misogyny and how the women who loved her brought the perpetrators to ...

February 2nd @ 9:36 am |

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RT @SWWalesReSister: #OurFeministLibrary thank you @Womans_Place_UK for this glorious list. I would like to recommend to anyone who is new to feminism, give some of these books a go, read some theory, some history, some fiction. Don't think it will ...

February 2nd @ 9:34 am |

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RT @Mocha_Soul: @Womans_Place_UK ... the repressive New State regime in Portugal and the reach of the Catholic patriarchy on the lives of women of across classes. The authors of the "New Portuguese Letters" became known as The Three Marias. Thanks ...

February 2nd @ 8:50 am |

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RT @Mocha_Soul: @Womans_Place_UK At a time when so many women irresponsibly court the allyship of fascist and proto fascist groups for short term gain and narrow return my suggestion for #OurFeministLibrary is a book that sent three Portuguese women ...

February 2nd @ 8:50 am |

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RT @Howabou55509332: I read this when I was around 11, just about to go through puberty. I don't know what the content in the later editions is like, but reading this version showed me that becoming a woman was normal. Essential reading for ...

February 2nd @ 8:50 am |

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RT @ClaireShrugged: 📖 Charting the Journey: Writings By Black and Third World Women 📖 Sista! Two under-appreciated gems too often overlooked by the feminist canon. These collections give voice to the experiences of lesbians of colour in Britain. ...

February 2nd @ 8:49 am |

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RT @ClaireShrugged: 📖 The Myth of Mars & Venus 📖 Feminism 📖 The Feminist Critique of Language @wordspinster is a feminist linguist whose analysis of the relationship between words and power will blow your mind. I always find her perspective ...

February 2nd @ 8:49 am |

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RT @HanoverHussy: #OurFeministLibrary SCUM manifesto War: The male's normal compensation for not being female, namely, getting his Big Gun off, is grossly inadequate, as he can get it off only a very limited number of times; so he gets it off on a ...

February 2nd @ 8:49 am |

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RT @manymiaows: @FiLiA_charity Unpacking Queer Politics by Sheila Jeffreys, because I heard someone say that “men like gender” and I couldn’t understand what that meant. Sheila knows. #OurFeministLibrary

February 2nd @ 7:28 am |

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Marie de France (12th C) Anglo Norman Poet. To avoid the fate of so many women authors, wrote on her work; “I will name myself in order to be remembered: my name is Marie and I am from France. Many clerics might try to take my work as their own; I ...

February 2nd @ 7:11 am |

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RT @HanoverHussy: #OurFeministLibrary Audre Lorde - your silence will not protect you Her tow headed children cluster like mirrors of despair Their fathers hands upon them And soundlessly a woman begins to weep https://t.co/zOJFUO...

February 2nd @ 5:42 am |

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RT @Whatfreshhell5: I was lucky enough to know the late Dorothy Porter, Australian lesbian poet, and knowing her gifted me more than I could ever repay. She served the muses, she wrote about loving women. My favourites of her books are 'Akhenaten' ...

February 2nd @ 5:42 am |

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RT @fickleskittle: A couple of fiction suggestions #OurFeministLibrary I read The Bloody Chamber as part of A-Level Literature. Cannot underestimate the impact studying it had on 18 year old me. Special heartfelt thank you to whoever put it on the ...

February 2nd @ 5:41 am |

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RT @JoLippers: A couple of years ago I wrote about Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch". Described by @beatrixcampbell as “One of the iconic books of the female liberation movement" it is a vital text in #OurFeministLibrary... https://t.co/zEmrQ4...

February 2nd @ 5:41 am |

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RT @Whatfreshhell5: Ok women, hang on to your hatpins. I'm here to tell you that in Australia, we were blessed with the short, remarkable life of Lesbia Harford: machine worker, communist, beauty and poet. She was good, too. Australia's cheerful ...

February 2nd @ 5:41 am |

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RT @Whatfreshhell5: All reading Australians know Miles Franklin's 'My Brilliant Career' and Joan Lindsay's 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' - both utterly fresh and delightful. But not enough people are even aware of our great female master: Henry Handel ...

February 2nd @ 5:40 am |

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RT @HanoverHussy: #OurFeministLibrary Sadly temporarily lost to wokery (she’ll be back) Anyway- the only contemporary book I know dedicated to our vaginas and the secrets of the pelvic nerve Sorry for the state of the cover- there appears to be wax ...

February 2nd @ 4:19 am |

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RT @HanoverHussy: terrified of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls, sick of the Powder Room....I’m sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.” Germaine Greer The female ...

February 2nd @ 4:14 am |

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RT @HanoverHussy: Letters form a faint hearted feminist Jill Tweedie This was my gateway drug when I found it on my mate’s mum’s book shelf. I asked if I could borrow it- she smiled broadly and said ‘keep it sugar, you’ll need it’..... She was so ...

February 2nd @ 4:14 am |

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RT @HanoverHussy: .... I have them in the house, Mary, three of them. Well you can’t quite count the baby yet, though he is already very demanding, wanting to be fed at every inopportune moments & forcing me to drop everything and retire to the ...

February 2nd @ 4:13 am |

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RT @HanoverHussy: The tension between the personal and the political was never funnier- Jill Tweedie Letters of a faint hearted feminist “Of course I understand your objection to rapists and rippers- in a word, men. But you have to understand my ...

February 2nd @ 4:13 am |

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Edited - not just for Tweeters! It’s a year since #WomensLib2020 with c1000 women debating and organising. A lot has happened in a year but the fight for women’s spaces goes on. To mark the event we want you to help us build #OurFeministLibrary ...

February 2nd @ 3:21 am |

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A year ago today we were at #WomensLib2020 with c1000 women debating and organising. A lot has happened in a year but the fight for women’s spaces goes on. To mark the day we want you to help us build #OurFeministLibrary online. Let’s archive! ...

February 2nd @ 3:00 am |