It's been a busy week for us. In the past 7 days, we have spoken and conducted a workshop at the NUS Black Students Conference, had a great time at our March meeting talking, sharing and planning and come up with really exciting plans for our new website. We have also been...
... writing about:
- the Oscar win for Octavia Spencer for The Help
- Black women, media and representation in response to this article
... talking and reading about:
- street harassment - we're now a co-sponsor of stop street harassment
- Rihanna, Chris Brown, domestic violence and victim blaming
- battle of the complexions - prompted by this event held to celebrate black history month
- attitudes to sex and violence, including those hold by young people
- the resurrection of David Starkey on the BBC
- the 'white-washing' of the British empire
- Whitney Houston
- Kwame Nkrumah's declaration of Ghana's independence - 55 years ago on 6th March 1957
- where are the feminist men?
- the threatened deportation of Amanpreet Kaur (watch this space for more details)
- the international struggle to end apartheid after watching these excellent documentaries
- race, poverty and geography in the UK after seeing this poverty map
- making militarism visible, an exhibition developed by New Profile - the movement for the civil-isation of Israeli society
- Iroquois women and empowerment
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