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, 2025 | campaigns, Groups, Stories, Women at work
By Marianne Scruggs and Judy Pruss Rogers When a retired midwife friend told me about HOWL and suggested I write something about the beginning of the Association of Radical Midwives, I realized that next year, 2026, it will be 50 years since ARM began. Fortunately, I...
by howl | Jun 23, 2025 | 1973, Culture, Groups
By Nic Humberstone In 1973 my girlfriend and I were off to Warwick University on grants, where we would spend the next three years. Me aged 25 and considered a ‘mature’ student. Having left school at 15 (thrown out) and considered a failure, this was a triumph. The...
by howl | Apr 2, 2025 | First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Sona Osman On Thursday 16th March 2025, I gave a eulogy for my friend, Claudette Williams, which focused on the Brixton Black Women’s Group. The memorial was held at Brixton Library. I don’t live in England anymore and that evening as I made my way to Brixton where...
by howl | Feb 20, 2025 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Women at work
By Jeanne Rathbone Coming from a family of six women in a Catholic Ireland is a good start. In 1965 I failed at university, studying science in Galway, so I came to London as a teenager joining one of my sisters. I could not see myself continuing to live in Ireland,...
by howl-team | Dec 12, 2024 | 1960s, 1973, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups, Publishing, Women at work
By Miriam E. David I spent the year 1972-3 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Harvard Graduate School for Education as a researcher. I had been in London for the previous six years (1966-1972), apart from three months in Israel from June to September 1967. In London,...
by howl-team | Dec 10, 2024 | 1960s, 1970s, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Laws, Relationships, sex, family
By Sona Osman In this piece of writing I would like to explain the circumstances and life experiences which led me to a feminist way of thinking which has driven most of my life and has propelled me into a life rich of adventures and experiences. Sue O’Sullivan has...
by howl | Apr 19, 2024 | 1970s, 1979, campaigns, Publishing
Miriam E. David I arrived in Bristol in the late summer of 1973, as a Lecturer in Social Administration at the University. Hilary Land had advocated strongly for me. I had met her as a researcher at London School of Economics (LSE) when we were both in the Social...
by howl | May 24, 2023 | 1980s, campaigns, Groups
By: Stephanie Henthorne 1980s Following my escape from the world of freemasonry, Daily Mail and Tupperware parties, the 1980s was the decade when we would sort it all out! Raging against ‘the system’…. The Personal is Political…. Reclaim the Night…....
