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The first feminist action I was aware of …

by howl-team | Dec 18, 2023 | 1960s, First memories of getting involved, Groups

Zoe Fairbairns The year was 1969, the country was the USA. I was an exchange student at a college in Virginia, taking a year out from my degree course at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Glancing one day through the Washington Post, I came upon a report of an...

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