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 | 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 | Apr 8, 2025 | Culture, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Paddy Tanton I was born in Hull in 1946. In that place at that time, the word ‘lesbian’ was never spoken. Growing up I had no concepts to understand who I was in relation to the rest of the narrow post-war world around me which seemed, emotionally at least, a...
by howl | May 11, 2022 | 1970, 1970s, Culture
Women’s Liberation – my early years as a cultist Author: Zoe Fairbairns Date: May 1970 I got involved with feminism the way some people get involved with religious cults. People join cults because their heads are full of unanswered questions – and one day they...
