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Very excited to hear about this: Engaged Teaching, Feminist Activism and Academia.
Continue readingA good thing to change your mind? I really like this challenge to the somewhat macho culture of sticking to a position; terrified to be called out for making a u-turn, when actually, maybe it’s far more courageous to change your mind and admit making an error of judgement. We’re all human, after all!
Continue readingHow marketing can deliberately work to exclude women.
Continue readingBishop FM radio interview about Durham Women Rising launch Thanks so much for featuring our launch event, Gillian, and giving me the opportunity to explain our formation as a group, the objectives of our programme and a sneak preview of what our programme will include. It would be fabulous if we could take forward in some way the idea we discussed about women behind the camera/mike/computer in media… 🙂
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Continue readingOur launch hits North East news With many thanks to Natasha Sykes, Sunderland University student of Graphic Design and Communication, for designing the fabulous Durham Women Rising logo.
Continue readingHaving renamed ourselves and arranged for our own logo to be designed, Durham Women Rising will officially launch on Tuesday 10th December, from 4-5pm in the Boardroom of Durham University’s Ustinov College. * Our launch will be hosted by Professor Nicole Westmarland, who co-founded and co-directs the Durham University Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse. * It will be an opportunity to get a flavour of the programme we have lined up for February and March to challenge the all-too-prevalent culture of violence against women, whilst celebrating women in as many different ways as we can. * On the...
Continue readingLisa Davis of Changing Relations on BBC Radio Tees – Awesome morning of discussions of feminism activism in our region from BBC Radio Tees earlier in the week, including a slot from Changing Relations’ own Lisa Davis.
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