by howl | Jul 22, 2026 | Friendship, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Exploring My Lesbian Feminist Creativity In late 1978, after I learned I had cancer and underwent hard hitting but eventually successful treatment, Tierl Thompson and I decided we could no longer sustain our business running WRPM (Women’s Revolutions...
by howl | Jul 21, 2026 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Growing Up a Working-Class Young, Gay, Woman in Brooklyn You could say that being born into a poor, Italian American family in 1948 with typical immigrant problems and the Catholic religion determining a girl’s behaviour, led me straight to women’s...
by howl | Jul 21, 2026 | 1990’s, Culture, Groups, Relationships, sex, family
By Helena Graham July 2026 The 1990s was a tumultuous decade. On the international scene, Bill Clinton was elected as the US President in 1992 and the European Union was created with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, both offering a glimmer of hope. In the same...
by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Relationships, sex, family
By Jenny Stroud, Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group I think even as a young girl, and a sporty one as well, that I knew innately there was something wrong with the balance of the world. This would have been in the late 1950s/early 1960s. I wasn’t allowed to play...
by howl | Jan 14, 2026 | Publishing, Relationships, sex, family
By Sue O’Sullivan In 2016 I was fed up with reports in the press about a revolutionary new discovery about the clitoris. I wrote the following newly edited article for the Older Feminist Newsletter.* I recently read some stories in the media heralding breakthrough...
by howl | Jan 14, 2026 | First memories of getting involved, Groups, Relationships, sex, family
By Sue O’Sullivan I was born in 1941 in the USA. I bled at age nine and my mom that morning, lying in bed beside my dad, said when I announced this, ‘Oh dear, I’m so sorry. You’re so young.’ I stuffed toilet paper in my pants and told no one for more than a year after...
by howl | Dec 16, 2025 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Relationships, sex, family
A powerful filmed lecture on Irish women’s activism in Britain, delivered by long-standing feminist, activist and author Ann Rossiter, and filmed by renowned director Sé Merry Doyle at the Irish Cultural Centre in May 2024. In “These Wildish Things,” Rossiter reflects...
by howl | Nov 26, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, campaigns, Culture, Groups, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family, Stories
By Lynne Segal I am part of the lucky generation entering adulthood in the golden age of capitalism in Sydney, Australia, in the subversive 60s. Then, at the start of the 70s, I got even luckier, arriving in Islington, London, as a single mother, just when community...
by howl | Nov 18, 2025 | 1982, Culture, Groups, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family
By Jeanette Copperman The first feminist book I remember reading was Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex when I think I was 13 or 14. I grew up in a strictly orthodox Jewish household and Shabbat (Saturday) was a day when you couldn’t write or shop or watch tv or...
by howl | Nov 11, 2025 | 1970s, campaigns, Relationships, sex, family
Contribution to a lesbian history session at the 2025 FILIA conference. By Carol Ackroyd Unless you lived through the 1970s it’s hard to grasp just how hostile society was to lesbians back then. Everyone knows about the brutal laws against homosexuality for men. But...
