Join classical singer Pooja Angra and writer Susmita Bhattacharya in a creative workshop which is inspired by music.
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton, this special format is thriving in Southampton - presented in collaboration with Wire Wool Events.
Wire Wool Events is delighted to be working with Writing Our Legacy on their storytelling and writing workshops taking place in Southampton.
Migration, Memory and Identity: Poetic Responses to African Diaspora Artists. What does it mean to be part of a diaspora? How are our identities shaped by physical locations? Where is ‘home’ when generations move through continents over time?
Inspired by contemporary artists featured in the landscape exhibition Soulscapes (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2024) and the artwork of the South African-South Asian Kutti Collective, the workshop will provide space to explore your own connections to political geographies and the natural world through writing poetry.
Liz Amos and Susmita Bhattacharya will work with themes of memory, joy, belonging and transformation to explore experiences of land and legacy.
This event is aimed at BPOC people, free entry and suitable for 18+.
Free but booking advised.
Wire Wool Events is delighted to be working with Writing Our Legacy on their storytelling and writing workshops taking place in Southampton.
Spend a morning weaving stories together. In this workshop led by Southampton-based textile artist, Shobhna Philips, and writing facilitator, Susmita Bhattacharya, creating woven craft items and swapping life stories.
This 2 hour drop-in workshop will be held at Shirley Library, creating pom-poms, friendship bands and tapestry weaving while sharing life stories with each other guided by Susmita’s prompts.
These ‘yarns’ will be collected and Susmita will put them together as a poem which will be displayed in the library and on WOL’s website.
This workshop is aimed at BPOC people, free to participate and suitable for all ages.
Free but booking advised.
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton. This special format is thriving in Southampton, presented in collaboration with Wire Wool Events.
Rachel Goodman and Elvire Roberts read together from Knee to Knee (Dialect Press) - a ground-breaking, synergetic poetry book where the poets combine to expand the boundaries of ‘she’. Each poem is co-written.
Rachel Goodman is a poet and painter living in Norfolk. Her work has been published in Magma, Aesthetica, Under the Radar, Finished Creatures, Dream Catcher, The Alchemy Spoon, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lighthouse Journal, Fenland Poetry Journal, Tears in the Fence. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize 2017 and 2021. Her first book, Knee to Knee, a collaboration with poet Elvire Roberts, was published in 2024 by Dialect Press. She is currently collaborating with composer James McConnel on a choral anthem commissioned to celebrate the Kings Lynn Festival's 75th Anniversary.
Elvire Roberts is a Queer poet and signed language interpreter. She is widely published in journals including 14 Magazine, Dark Mountain, Finished Creatures, Magma, Reliquiae, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence, Tentacular, and anthologies The Language of Salt, Ten Poems About Getting Older and Apocalyptic Landscape. Her debut pamphlet is North by Northnorth (Five Leaves Press). Knee to Knee (Dialect Press) is a collaborative, synergetic poetry book, each poem co-written with Rachel Goodman.
Verity Spott is a poet and musician. Verity runs Iodine Press and Horseplay in Brighton. Verity's books include Gideon, Balconette and Effort To No. The North Road Songbook is out now from Pilot Press.
Christina Thatcher grew up between a farm and a ranch house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She won a Marshall Scholarship to study in the UK and now lectures at Cardiff University. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including Ambit, Poetry Wales, The North and The Poetry Review. She has published three collections with Parthian Books: More than you were (2017), How to Carry Fire (2020) and Breaking a Mare, which launched in April 2025. She lives with her gardener husband, Rich, and their cat, Miso.
18+
6.45pm doors for 7pm start. Readings will end at 9pm.
£5 advance
Limited tickets available, please book in advance to avoid disappointment
This event is a toiletries donation point for Basics Bank.
Raffle prizes are books - proceeds go to Yellow Door.
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton, Wire Wool Events is collaborating with Placeholder to bring three outstanding poets together in Southampton. This is the 5th event of the partnership.
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton, Wire Wool Events is collaborating with Placeholder to bring three outstanding poets together in Southampton. This is the 4th event of the partnership, and showcases the new title from Placeholder's founder.
Kat Sinclair is a poet living in Southampton and a 2024 PhD candidate researching the political economy of feminised robots. She is the author of Very Authentic Person (the87press, 2019), PLEASE PRESS (Sad Press, 2022), and pamphlets with Face Press and Earthbound Press. Her work has also appeared in Chicago Review, Datableed, and in collections from SPAM Press and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. The Pharmacy is out now from the87Press.
Verity Spott is a poet and musician. Verity runs Iodine Press and Horseplay in Brighton. Verity's books include Gideon, Balconette and Effort To No. The North Road Songbook is out now from Pilot Press.
Harriet Rose is a poet and publisher, currently studying for an MPhil in English Studies. She has just published the first issue of a new chapbook review (TNCCR / The New Cambridge Chapbook Review) with a call out for submissions for the forthcoming edition. Issue 1 is available now, by donation, with proceeds going to Medical Aid for Palestinians.
*Harriet Rose will be reading in place of Sarona Abuaker at this event, we look forward to hearing Sarona read at a future event.
Sarona Abuaker is a poet, artist, and educational outreach worker. Her poems have been published in Berfrois, MAP Magazine, Ludd Gang, Senna Hoy, and the87press’ Digital Poetics series. Her mixed-media essay Suture Fragmentations – A Note on Return was published in December 2020 with KOHL: A Journal for Body and Gender Research. She is the author of Why so few women on the street at night (the87press, 2021).
6.45pm doors for 7pm start. Readings will end at 9pm.
£5 advance
Limited tickets available, please book in advance to avoid disappointment
This event is a toiletries donation point for Basics Bank.
Raffle prizes are books - proceeds go to Yellow Door.
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton, Wire Wool Events is collaborating with Placeholder to bring three outstanding poets together in Southampton to share their work.
In this talk, writer and organiser Alva Gotby will explore how emotion is structured under capitalism, who carries out the work of caring for others, and how we can begin to reimagine this work. We all have emotional needs, but we could meet those needs in very different ways. Drawing on the tradition of Wages for Housework, an international feminist collective active in the 1970s, Alva will look at how society depends on hidden forms of emotional care.
Jane Robinson has a proven talent for finding unsung heroines behind the scenes of history. This time she has discovered a hidden gem. Victorian Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon opened many of the doors we step through as modern women, unaware of her part in changing our world. Artist, campaigner, and connoisseur of human happiness, she was a true pioneer, kick-starting the fight for the vote, founding the first university college for women and campaigning for equal opportunities at work and at home.
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton, Wire Wool Events is collaborating with Placeholder to bring three outstanding poets together in Southampton. This is the 2nd event of the partnership, after a sold out debut.
Placeholder is home for poetry readings of the avant-garde, challenging, queer and radical. Following the success of this poetry reading series in Brighton, Wire Wool Events is collaborating with Placeholder for the first time to bring three outstanding poets together in Southampton.
She Who Struggles: The Revolutionary Women Who Shaped The World
With Marral Shamshiri and Sorcha Thomson
Discover a hidden history of leaders, rebels, trailblazers, guerrillas and writers. Marral Shamshiri and Sorcha Thomson introduce revolutionary women's lives and movements from across the globe, from histories unjustly dominated by men. Explore this revolutionary internationalism that speaks to feminist, anti-colonial, and antiracist struggles today.
Marral Shamshiri is a doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics and managing editor of the journal Cold War History.
Sorcha Thomson is a historian and an associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She is co-editor of the book Palestine in the World and an editor of the History Workshop magazine.
In this talk, activists and historians Sorcha Thomson and Marral Shamshiri set the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the world in endless ways; and how we must actively write these women into history.
45min talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions.
This event is a toiletries donation point for Basics Bank.
Win a copy of the book in the raffle - proceeds go to Yellow Door
Price: £10 advance
Limited tickets available, please book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept. Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder? How is mental wellbeing, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time? These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll explores in her Mad World talk.
In this talk Sarah Graham presents an inclusive and empowering manifesto for change in women’s healthcare. Together we will explore the systemic and deep rooted sexism within medicine, and learn actionable ways to advocate for ourselves and others and get the diagnosis and treatment we need. We will meet those who are standing up and fighting back now, and find out what it will take to bridge the gender health gap.
Join critically acclaimed poet and performer Leyla Josephine, in Southampton, for an interactive evening of words.
Social science has shown that protests are more successful when they are fighting against something rather than campaigning for something. When it comes to addressing climate change do you know what the solutions are? And how we might go about achieving them?
Zion Lights is a passionate science advocate and environmental writer who wants to change the world for the better. In this talk she will be discussing the evolution of climate action, what it’s gotten right and wrong and what it needs to do next, from the perspective of a long term climate activist.
Zion Lights is a science communicator who is known for her environmental advocacy work. She is Founder of the evidence-based climate activism group Emergency Reactor. She is author of The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting, and a keen astronomer who has given a TED talk on stargazing. She is the former Editor of The Hourglass, Extinction Rebellion’s print newspaper and has written for The Metro, Die Welt, Atlantico.fr, Marianne, The Telegraph, City AM, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Resurgence magazine, The Green Parent, The Ecologist and many other publications. Zion has also appeared on BBC Politics Live, Good Morning Britain, Sky News Australia, The Andrew Neil Show and France 24.
Informative and reflective, this talk will be assessing the successes and failures of the environmental movement whilst focussing on current solutions we can action, now.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions
This event is a donation point for The Homeless Period
Win a signed copy of Zion's book The Ultimate Guide To Green Parenting in the raffle - proceeds go to START
Free entry – booking essential (if you can no longer attend, please return your tickets so someone else can)
In our society death has become taboo – the territory of professionals. In this performance Liz Rothschild confronts the ‘Elephant in the room’ with grace and humour, asking its audience to embrace mortality and look on the bright side of life. Combining the everyday with the profound, this one-woman show will convince you how much richer and less lonely life can become if we dare to look death in the eye.
Liz Rothschild is a writer, actor, playwright, celebrant and the founding director of award winning burial ground Westmill Woodland Burial Ground. Liz has toured the UK and US with ‘Outside the Box’ and many of the stories come from her audiences.
In this original and cathartic production hear mercurial tales and miraculous truths alongside Liz’s own unique insights and experiences collected over the years from life’s finishing line. Heartbreaking, angry, uplifting, laugh-out-loud funny and gloriously contradictory - these stories will reveal just how personal our relationship to death is.
1hr performance + readings, followed by opportunity for audience questions.
This event is a donation point for The Homeless Period. Raffle proceeds go to Yellow Door.
Why are mothers idealised yet treated so poorly?
Why does the principle of equality falter so spectacularly when it comes to childcare?
Why do mothers feel so reticent about making demands?
Hectored by the ticking biological clock, patronised in pregnancy, ignored in childbirth, weighed down by emotional labour, condemned for any imperfection, and forced to either jettison treasured ambitions or endure continual guilt: somehow this has become the everyday reality for mothers in the twenty-first century. Why, after decades of social progress, is motherhood still so much harder than it needs to be?
Eliane Glaser is a writer, broadcaster, and research fellow at the University of London. She writes for the Guardian, Prospect, and the London Review of Books, and produces and appears on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. Her books include Motherhood: A Manifesto; Elitism: A Progressive Defence; Anti-Politics; and Get Real: How to see through the Hype, Spin, and Lies of Modern Life.
In this searing and vital talk Eliane Glaser suggests what we need to do to shift the needle and improve the business of child-rearing for everyone.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions
This event is a donation point for The Homeless Period
Win a signed copy of Motherhood: A Manifesto in the raffle – proceeds go to START
Free entry – booking essential (if you can no longer attend, please return your tickets so someone else can)
Hear first-hand tales of land and resistance from Helen Beynon, as she discusses the protests against the building of the M3 motorway extension through Twyford Down.
2022 is the thirtieth anniversary of the start of direct action against the building of the M3 motorway through Twyford Down, near Winchester. Helen’s talk will examine how the protests began and how they were fuelled by underlying frustrations with the failure of successive governments to protect treasured landscapes and ecology. She will tell not just the story of the protests, but how people learnt the skills needed to camp on the Down. First hand accounts of arrests, blockading bulldozers and the brutal clearance of the last fragment of downland will demonstrate how people forged a deep connection with the land and laid the foundations of the modern environmental movement.
Helen Beynon is the pen name of Helen Baczkowska, a writer, ecologist and environmental activist who lives and works in rural Norfolk. Helen has collaborated on an Arts Council funded project recording places and communities impacted by fracking in the UK and is currently working on a book about common land in Britain today. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and in 2021 was short-listed for the Nan Shepherd nature writing prize.
Twyford Down was the location of Britain’s first direct action road protest, and is widely seen as part of the foundations of the current environmental movement – the influence of the resistance there is still felt in many campaigns today. Combining humour with heroics and adventure, in this talk Helen will explore the special relationship between people and place at this chalk hill in Hampshire.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions
This event is a donation point for The Homeless Period
Free entry – booking essential (if you can no longer attend, please return your tickets so someone else can)
Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women, reflects on the experiences of medical dismissal that inspired her to look to history for answers. As she combed through textbooks, case studies and clinical writings across centuries of medicine’s history, Elinor discovered countless unwell women whose suffering had been belittled, overlooked, or misdiagnosed – women whose experiences felt hauntingly similar to her own.
Dr Elinor Cleghorn is a feminist cultural historian specialising in histories of women’s lives, bodies, and health. She has written for Vogue online, BBC Science Focus, the Wall Street Journal, the New Scientist, and BBC History magazine, and has discussed her work on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, and numerous podcasts. Unwell Women is Elinor’s first book.
From ‘wandering wombs’ and hysteria, to menstrual madness and menopausal fury, Elinor will reveal some of the most egregious myths about women’s bodies and minds perpetuated by male-dominated medicine from ancient Greece to the present – and show us why, to remake the future of our bodies and health, we must delve into our past.
Elinor will take us on an infuriating and fascinating journey through the thwarted history of women’s relationship with medical thought and practice; and along the way, she will introduce us to some extraordinary women patients, physicians, thinkers and activists who challenged the sexist status quo in medical thought and practice.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions
This event is a donation point for The Homeless Period
Win a signed first edition copy of Unwell Women in the raffle – proceeds go to START
Free entry – booking essential (if you can no longer attend, please return your tickets so someone else can)
Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, help stroke victims recover their language, and encourage people to work together as a team.
Dr Emma Byrne is an honest-to-goodness robot scientist who, when she’s not developing intelligent systems, has written for BBC Science Focus, the FT and the Guardian. She is co-host and exec-producer of NonFicPod and frequently appears on Sky News and the BBC talking about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics.
In this talk Emma gives a spirited and hilarious defence of our most cherished dirty words, backed by historical case studies and cutting-edge research. Swearing Is Good For You outlines the fascinating science behind swearing: how it affects us both physically and emotionally, and how it is more natural and beneficial than we are led to believe.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions.
£10.00 advance (plus booking fees)
Death is a universal truth that unites us all. Through confronting death we begin to understand how to make the most of our lives without fear.
Do you know what we do with our bodies at the end of life, and why? Have you thought about how can we truly honour the meaning of a life? Would a ‘traditional’ funeral align with the values you hold in life? This talk aims to raise these queries, open up the conversation and explore the possibilities of funerals in the present day and beyond.
Tora Colwill established The Modern Funeral to provide flexible funeral services and support people to create highly personal, meaningful funerals. Lyn Baylis has been a LifeRites Minister for 20 years. For the last 30 years she has worked as a Prison Chaplain, Hospital & Hospice Chaplain and believes that funeral ceremonies should be more focused on the needs and requirements of the deceased and their family.
Thought provoking and gently confrontational, this talk will be providing context through human history and musing to the future. Tora and Lyn will look at where the practical and ceremonial aspects of funerals can merge to create meaning.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions.
Free entry – booking essential
If you can no longer attend, please return your tickets so someone else can
This event is a donation point for The Homeless Period
In 2011, comedian Rosie Wilby was dumped by email. Obsessing about breakups ever since, she embarked on a personal quest to investigate, understand and conquer the psychology of heartbreak. Part memoir, part investigation, The Breakup Monologues takes on the big questions about our life-changing separations in the modern age of ghosting, breadcrumbing and conscious uncoupling.
Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, podcaster, speaker and journalist. She regularly appears on radio and TV commentating on sexuality, dating and love and was dubbed ‘the Queen of Breakups’ by BBC Radio 4 following the success of her podcast The Breakup Monologues. She has extensively explored heartbreak in her podcast, in her hugely successful comedy shows, and in her first book, Is Monogamy Dead? which was shortlisted for the Diva Literary Awards and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She has written for publications including The Guardian, Sunday Times, and New Statesman, and has performed at major festivals including Glastonbury and Latitude.
In Rosie’s trademark immersive, investigative form, the self-styled ‘lesbian Louis Theroux’ puts her own relationship under the microscope in a ‘sex lab’, and explores how a split parallels the effects of withdrawing from a drug, why friendship breakups can feel like the worst endings of all, how polyamory changes the conversation about commitment, how breakups can sometimes be empowering and lead to exciting new life journeys... and how ultimately they can even help us to stay together.
This talk brings together all that she has learnt from her own life and from conversations with her podcast guests, friends, fans, relationship therapists, scientists and sociologists to create a wonder of humour, heartache and psychology that will strike a chord with all.
45-minute stand-up comedy talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions.
£10.00 advance (plus booking fees)
In light of current events this talk is on pause.
It feels irresponsible for a speaker to be travelling across the country at this point in time, to deliver a talk which many people will feel uncomfortable about attending.
We hope to be able to reschedule (again) for later in the year.
We will keep you informed with a new date and refund information (if necessary) as soon as we have this information.
Have you seen someone being harassed in a public space and wished you had taken action? At this event, Kelsey will speak about the roots of her fuck-the-police approach to feminist campaigning, and why more police and prisons are not the answer to gender-based or racial violence. To bring us closer to envisioning a society that takes responsibility for violence that happens within our communities, she will share some bystander intervention tactics.
Kelsey Mohamed is a feminist campaigner and full-time mischief-maker based in London, organising in campaigns against state violence, and working to explore and build alternative support centering experiences of women of colour and other marginalised groups. A facilitator with grassroots collectives Cradle and Resist+Renew, she delivers training on bystander intervention, power and privilege, and tools for campaigning and movement building.
This talk will explore ways we can actively support people we see or know who are experiencing harm.
45-minute talk, bystander intervention workshop and opportunity for audience questions.
£8 advance
Please bring items for The Homeless Period if you are able.
Based on fresh, original testimonies given by over 100 Greenham Common Women, this talk offers an intimate portrait of the adventures, personalities and dilemmas of the Greenham Women, exploring how Greenham’s legacy has influenced current cultural, and political movements including Repeal The 8th, Extinction Rebellion, the Stanstead 15 and the MeToo movement.
Rebecca Mordan, Artistic Director of Scary Little Girls Association and co-ordinator of this unique Heritage Lottery funded project has led an interview process involving approx 100 Women of Greenham Common peace camp. In this talk she explains the work and shares anecdotes from these extraordinary campaigners, finishing the evening with a Q and A session when Rebecca will be joined by local Greenham Women who have contributed to the Greenham Women Everywhere project.
£10.00 advance (or 4 for £36.00)
£12.00 on the door
Carers go free on production of Carer's Card (available in person)
A panel of leading voices in gender politics will explore myths and misinformation, truths and taboos, personal and political, the shame and secrecy surrounding women’s bodies, and why this is still important to discuss in 2019.
Emma Rees is Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Chester, and Director of the Institute of Gender Studies. She has written extensively about gender and representation, notably in her book 'The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History'.
Elliott Watson is the director and producer of several award winning documentaries. He focusses his attention on gender as a construct in modern times. His latest film, ‘Vulva’, explores the paradigms of beauty in the western world.
Unfortunately, for personal reasons, Lynn Enright is no longer able to take part in the Vulvas In/Formation panel. She has very kindly donated two copies of her awesome book Vagina: A Re-Education as raffle prizes, and is very sorry to let you down.
I am very happy to announce that Sarah Creed from The Vagina Museum, will be speaking in her place! It's an absolute pleasure to have curator and exhibitions manager Sarah come and speak to us in Winchester before the museum open its doors on 16th November.
1 hour talk and film screening, followed by opportunity for audience discussion.
£10 advance
Please bring items for The Homeless Period if you are able.
We all know diversity matters and should be a commercial imperative in every industry. In the critical era of the advancement of women, its time for women to take their rightful place and demand (not ask) for the same opportunity, legitimacy, recognition and credit men get. Women won't get this by waiting their turn or suffering in silence. They must create opportunities where there are none and bring their folding chair to sit at the table where no extra chairs exist. Collective responsibility can only take us so far - individual responsibility for your representation (be it gender, race, sex) is critical to making diversity matter.
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu is an Attorney and Solicitor, author, public speaker and a political & women’s rights activist. She teaches intersectional feminism to female refugees and asylum seekers; scrutinizes government policies; and coorganises women's marches and social campaigns. She founded Women in Leadership magazine and established She@Law to promote Women & BAME leadership in the legal profession.
This talk will explore how women can make a change in and out of the workplace. Stop Talking - Start Doing!
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience discussion
£8 advance
Please bring items for The Homeless Period if you are able.
On the 100th anniversary of some women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst – great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, and herself a leading women's rights campaigner – charts how women's lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.
Dr Helen Pankhurst is a women's rights activist and senior advisor to CARE International UK, based in the UK and in Ethiopia. Her work in Ethiopia focuses on the interests and needs of women and girls. In the UK she is a public speaker and writer on feminist issues. Her book Deeds Not Words (Sceptre) came out February 2018.
This talk explores the major themes of politics, money, family & identity, violence and culture. Helen Pankhurst combines historical insight with inspiring argument, and reveals how far women have come since the suffragettes, how far we still have to go, and how we might get there.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions
£8 advance
Trans rights are headline news at the moment - but does the conversation playing out in the press have anything to do with what trans people are actually saying? GRA reform to trans teens, feminist inclusion to film representation: author and activist CN Lester discusses how we can ground our conversations in fact, empathy, and the expectation of better things.
CN Lester is an academic, writer, musician, and leading LGBTI activist. Co-founder of the UK's first national queer youth organisation, they curate the trans art event Transpose for The Barbican, and work internationally as a trans and feminist educator and speaker. Their work has featured on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, SBS, The Guardian, ABC, The Independent, Newsnight, New Internationalist, and The Toast. Their book Trans Like Me (Virago) is out now.
In this talk CN breaks down myths, discusses gender diversity and making a more inclusive future a reality.
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience discussion.
This event is a collection point for The Homeless Period
To mark 100 years since the first women gained the right to vote in the UK, Nuffield Southampton Theatres are hosting Bungalow Café Festival - a season of events celebrating and lifting the voices of women.
In her 'Powerful Women' talk, Finn Mackay will be exploring the themes of women, power, politics and gender identity.
Finn Mackay is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England in Bristol. She is author of 'Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement' published by Palgrave Macmillan. A long time feminist activist, Finn founded the London Feminist Network in 2004 and revived Reclaim the Night London UK. She speaks and writes regularly on feminist theory and social justice issues, appearing on BBC Woman's Hour, The Moral Maze and writing in The Guardian and HuffPost UK amongst others; recently Finn delivered a TEDx talk on what is feminist about equality. Her current areas of research are masculinities and gender identities
45-minute talk, followed by opportunity for audience questions
£8 advance
Please note early start time
FREE EVENT
Dr Sue Anderson-Faithful will be leading a 90 minute women’s history walk around ancient Winchester. She will be pointing out sites of interest with reference to Josephine Butler, Mary Sumner, Laura Ridding, Charlotte Yonge and many more fascinating characters linked to the city.
This walking tour has been organised by Dr Sue Anderson-Faithful in partnership with Wire Wool Events.
Dr Sue Anderson-Faithful is a fount of knowledge when it comes to women’s history in Winchester. She is the author of Mary Sumner, Mission, Education and Motherhood: thinking a life with Bourdieu (Lutterworth 2018). A long term resident of Winchester, she is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winchester, where she teaches history and the pedagogy of history. Sue is a member of the university’s Centre for the History of Women’s Education. Her research focus is on Anglican women’s philanthropic and educational activism in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, in particular the Mothers’ Union and Girls’ Friendly Society. Sue is the editor of the Sybil Campbell Collection newsletter and a joint editor of History of Education Researcher.
Walk will take 1 hour 30 minutes, depending on weather, ability of walkers and number of questions asked throughout the walk!
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