next meeting: Monday 5th March

For the March meeting, we're having an outing to the Women's Poetry Night at Studio 2, Parr Street. This starts at 7:30. See you there!

Fun, Feminism and Real Ale

February 18, 2012
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There are few rewards in being an Angry Woman.  The endless crusade against sex, humour and fun can be a hard slog, and until the day all men are crushed beneath my sensibly flat heels I expect little recognition for my endeavours.  So it was a pleasant surprise when I was informed that the Angry… [Read more…]

Posted in: Events

‘The Science of Porn’ – Mansplained

September 24, 2011
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Earlier this month myself and a few other feminist types decided to pop along to a presentation hosted by the Merseyside Skeptics Society entitled ‘The Science of Porn’ presented by Stuart J Ritchie of Edinburgh university psychology department. Admittedly we did not expect it to be a feminist friendly space but the scope for debate and… [Read more…]

Posted in: Patriarchy, Pornogrpahy

Rant the 3rd: Slutwalk – Can We Reclaim the Feminist March?

August 23, 2011
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The SlutWalk in Manchester had a party atmosphere and an inclusive outlook, but I felt a long way from reclaiming anything, not the Night and not a word traditionally used to mean a lazy maidservant, now inextricably linked to sexual promiscuity, always an insult specifically to control women’s behaviour.  The Reclaim the Night march I… [Read more…]

Reproductive Rights Under Threat – next discussion topic 6th June

May 26, 2011
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Our next feminist educational is on Monday 6th June, 8pm Topic: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS UNDER THREAT With right-wing MPs trying to set more limits on access to abortion, and the government actively supporting anti-choice organisations, and promoting abstinence-based sex-education, reproductive rights and choice in the UK are under serious threat. How do we counter anti-choice groups’… [Read more…]

Posted in: Educationals

AWOL meeting Report: Witch persecution, capitalism and colonialism

March 8, 2011
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Our regular educational last night was on Sylvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch (a good summary can be found here). The points of discussion included how little of the the context of the witch hunts we covered in school history lessons, the phenomena being ascribed to “peasant superstition” rather than the political conveniences that Federici reveals.… [Read more…]

Rant the second: Special K – selling less as more

March 5, 2011
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Special K – the cereal that brought you the “drop a jeans size in two weeks” campaign, in which you were encouraged to eat their product instead of food until none of your clothes fit you anymore, then swan around in front of white backgrounds wearing a red swimsuit, which would cease to fit you… [Read more…]

Rant the first: Assange, Rape and the “We Can Never Know” fallacy

February 12, 2011
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The following was written in response to a post called The Truth About Assange and Wikileaks, that was published (some time ago now) on the blog Infantile Disorder and also in The Commune.  The author of this article has been a Friend of AWOL since way back when, and I generally have a lot of… [Read more…]

Posted in: Julian Assange, Rants, Rape

AWOL meeting report – Women and the Cuts

February 12, 2011
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I’m going to start using this blog for summaries of our meetings and possibly some random rants as and when they occur to me, and I hope other AWOLs will follow suit – if you want to be able to post here, just create a WordPress account, then drop an e-mail to the list or… [Read more…]

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