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 | 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 | Sep 12, 2025 | 1972, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Helen Taylor I moved to Bristol in 1972, and soon met a group of wonderful women who were learning about and trying to live feminism. Sisterhood was the term we all used, and committed to proudly, as we tried to support one another and all women – through...
by howl | Jun 3, 2025 | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, Culture, Publishing
by Amanda Sebestyen One of the amazing things about nearing 80 is that suddenly younger people want to know what you did in the past. We’ve become history! Not just to be written about by other people, but to tell it how we experienced it. Last year Tate Britain...
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 | Feb 13, 2025 | 1970s, Culture, Groups
By Frankie Green The changed life into which most of us entered was a revolution in itself. No home life, no-one to say what we should or should not do, no family ties, we were free and alone in a great, brilliant city, scores of women scarcely out of their teens met...
by howl | Jan 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1987, Culture, Discovering/Exploring Historical material, Groups, Relationships, sex, family, Theatre/Writing
by Tierl Thompson In 1987 the Women’s Press published my book Dear Girl: the diaries and letters of two working women 1897-1917. The following is my description of how the extraordinary material came to light. It was 1981. Or 1982. Or thereabouts. Knowing the exact...
by howl | Dec 20, 2024 | 1980s, 1983, Culture, Stories
Why The Letters Early in 2024, I was helping my friend Jill Posener to clear out boxes of her archival material from the London flat she used to live in before moving to California back in 1988. Folders of papers, Gay Sweatshop memorabilia, material from alternative...
by howl-team | Dec 10, 2024 | 1971, Groups, Laws, Relationships, sex, family, Womem at work
By Frankie Green Enthusiasm combined with critical thinking – what more could we ask of ourselves? – Rosa Luxemburg In 1971, I became involved in Women’s Liberation and London’s Gay Liberation Front. Islington was significant in our lives: GLF’s office, Peace...
