Events tagged with "race"
Commission for Equality and Human Rights
The setting up of a single equality commission – the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) - will create the first statutory body to protect Britain’s lesbian, gay and bisexual population. The Equality Act 2006 - which establishes the CE...
Memories tagged with "race"
Birmingham Women's Liberation Conference 1978
“It was the end really, because it had become too big to manage. The splits were obviously already there in a big sense because it was clear that there were real tensions between different groups of women, but in Birmingham (Conference), on the one h...
Fissures at the Birmingham WLM Day Conferences
Birmingham Women's Liberation Day Conferences were held regularly at Tindal Street School, Balsall Heath. “There was a lot of paranoia at the time, but it was interesting. I remember the one conference where we were saying that the local Women's Libe...
Getting into training around single sex work
Pratiba Palmer (now a film-maker) was then a youth worker, and I remember being denounced by her in a lesbian youth workers' forum, for some transgression I’d committed in terms of race, I’d doubtless stumbled over a word or something. It was when I ...
Keeping the lads out of girls only space
“Women only space was absolutely unheard of, the lads would do everything to get in to the Girls' night at the youth club, they set fire to the doors, they used to break in, my self defence came in very handy, I was very good at kicking behind me and...
Thatcherism negated need for extremism in feminism
“Since the 1980s the whole political landscape has shifted so massively, it’s broadened out a lot, the changes are quite positive, it’s a kind of post-modernism thing. We (revolutionary feminists) were on the extremes, and I thought the extreme plays...