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 17, 2026 | 1989, Publishing, Stories, Women at work
The Times Higher Education Supplement Last week I attended what I consider to be a quite momentous occasion. It was the launch of a book put together by the Jewish women in London group entitled Generations of memories: Voices of Jewish Women. The launch was not just...
by howl | Mar 3, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, campaigns, Publishing
By Helen Martins Getting a Reader Pass at the British Library had been on my bucket list for a long time. When I finally got round to organising this a few years ago, the person at the registration desk asked me what I wanted to study. My reply was “the history of the...
by howl | Jan 9, 2026 | 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Michele Grant I arrived at Essex University straight from my comprehensive school in Liverpool. I had no money as I was expecting to pick up a cheque with my full grant which was to cover all my needs. How lucky we were in those days, except that the cheque didn’t...
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 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-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 | Jul 25, 2024 | 1990’s, 2000+, campaigns, Culture, Groups
Judith Suissa The idea for Women in Black emerged in Jerusalem in 1988, in the shadow of the First Intifada. What had started with stone-throwing in the Occupied Territories had escalated and spread and, as usual in the lives of Israelis and Palestinians, fear mingled...
