by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | 1970s, 1971, campaigns, Conference, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Irena Fick I first became involved in the women’s liberation movement (WLM) in 1969. I remember my first meeting, it was in Karen Slaney’s flat in Dartmouth Park Hill, North London. There were about ten women in the group then. There was a Canadian filmmaker,...
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 17, 2025 | 1960s, campaigns, Conference, First memories of getting involved, Women at work
By Diane Langford Whenever I can’t sleep, I listen to the BBC World Service. Early one morning in February, 2010, wearing headphones so as not to disturb my slumbering partner, I was startled awake by my own voice shouting in my ear, speaking at the first National...
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 | May 30, 2025 | 1970, 1970s, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Marilyn Porter I missed all the excitement around 1968 – I was in Botswana, working, so far as I was able as a ‘wife’, at the progressive Swaneng Hill School. Alas, Swaneng was not so progressive that ‘wives’ were given full teaching positions. Instead I was...
by howl | May 29, 2025 | 1970s, 1974, 1975, campaigns, Laws
By Hilary Land The four demands of the second wave Women’s Liberation Movement, adopted at their first national conference at Oxford in 1970, were: equal pay, equal job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand and twenty-four hour nurseries for...
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...
by howl-team | Nov 14, 2023 | 1970s, 1980s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Stella Dadzie 9 November 2023 It’s difficult to answer the question of how I got involved in feminist politics, because it came about as a result of a number of things. I was already involved in some black liberation activities – I was working with a couple of...
by howl-team | Sep 18, 2023 | 1970, Conference, Stories
by Chandan I was 20 years old when I attended the UK’s first Women’s Liberation Conference at Oxford in February-March 1970. This was a landmark event in the genesis of what is termed “Second wave feminism” in Britain. 600 women and a few men – a much greater...
