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A feminist guide to celebrating Thatcher’s demise
I’ll start from the premise that anybody who’s got as far as reading this had no particular love for Margaret Thatcher. If this doesn’t apply to you, this article will not help. You’re on the wrong blog. Go away now. Bye bye. Yesterday, today and probably for the next week or so, people are sharing […]
Posted in: Capitalism, Feminist guides
Rant the I’ve-forgotten-how-many: Julian Assange and his apologists, again.
August 30, 2012
by Emma Pooka
Trigger-warning: post deals with issues of rape apologism and paraphrases and links to examples. Yes, Assange is back in the news, and once again the lefty twitfacesphere is earnestly asking itself whether you should fight to prevent a rapist[0] from being extradited to face questioning for rape, if he thinks he might end up extradited […]
The ConDem War on Women
July 3, 2012
by angrywomenguest
This is a guest post is from Hannah Ryan. As the ConDem agenda pushes into overdrive, women are in the frontline of ‘austerity measures’. The Government tell us deficit reduction is essential to keep us afloat, achievable only through cutting spending and increasing taxes (though not for the rich or corporate sector). Labour would have […]
Posted in: Patriarchy, The Cuts
Sexism in Activism meeting, Sunday 8th July, 2-5pm, Next to Nowhere
July 2, 2012
by Emma Pooka
A little while ago, AWOL held a meeting to discuss the difficulties women face in activist groups across the left, of being heard at meetings, child-friendly and safe meeting spaces, expectations on activist women and how we can support each other in calling out comrades on their sexism. Since then, these issues have been coming […]
Posted in: Events, Patriarchy
AWOL statement on sexual harassment in activist spaces
*TRIGGER WARNING We, as survivors, opponents of sexual violence, feminists and/or feminist allies have taken the decision to publicly oppose and name a man within the activist and anarchist community who we know to have repeatedly sexually harassed several young women*. This harassment is known to have taken place in person, via social media and/or […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
Liverpool women and allies send a message to anti-choicers: SPUC you!
April 29, 2012
by Emma Pooka
On Saturday 28th April, the pro-life group Society for the Protection of Unborn Children held a series of kerbside “vigils” throughout the country, in order to wave placards showing bizarrely out of context pictures of foetuses and false claims about abortion harming women and killing children. Happily, they faced strong opposition from feminist groups and […]
Not since the days of the suffragettes have so many women wanted to throw a Brick through a window…
April 8, 2012
by Emma Pooka
If Samantha Brick spectacularly misses the point in her article on the downsides to being pretty, the vast majority of her detractors have missed it by an even wider margin in attacking her on the basis of her looks, or even her arrogance. The problem with what Brick’s saying isn’t that she’s not as attractive […]
Posted in: Body acceptance, Patriarchy
what is AWOL?
AWOL is a feminist group that meets in Liverpool on the first Monday of the month
7pm till 8pm - our organising meeting (women only), followed by:
Feminist Educational - 8pm till about 10pm - an informal discussion on a different topic each month. Feminist & feminist-friendly folk of any sex welcome.
April 9, 2013
by Emma Pooka
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