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Leeds Animation Workshop

Location

Leeds
United Kingdom
53° 47' 58.6932" N, 1° 32' 56.796" W

Leeds Animation Workshop is a not-for-profit, cooperative company, which produces and distributes animated films and films on social and educational issues.

The organisation began in 1976 as a group of women friends who came together to make a film about the need for pre-school childcare. After completing WHO NEEDS NURSERIES? - WE DO! the group was formally established in 1978 as Leeds Animation Workshop. Since the mid-1980's the Workshop has been run by five women, who between them carry out all stages of the production process, from initial research to final distribution.

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rmott62 (blog)

Location

United Kingdom

A blog from an exited prostitute and survivor of child sexual abuse. This blog may be triggering to survivors.

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Penny Red (blog)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

Penny Red is...
A socialist, feminist, deviant, reprobate, queer, journalist, aspiring author, freelance copywriter and sometime blogger. She lives with toast-eating pagans in a little house somewhere in London, smoking and drinking and plotting to subtly re-arrange the world to suit her ideals. Consumes too much tea. Regrets nothing.

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"Hags, Harlots and Heroines" website

Location

United Kingdom

hagsharlotsheroines.com offers tales about some of history's more remarkable stragglers - groundbreaking gals who got lost upon the way - together with stories of legendary ladies and mythical mammas that you will no doubt have met before.

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womensphere (Blog)

Location

United Kingdom

womensphere: global women’s news, views and issues

Women in London's news and announcements blog

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Crazy Like Us? (Blog)

Location

United Kingdom

Feminists write about mental health

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Transpunk (Webzine)

Location

United Kingdom

Transpunk is a UK-based webzine for those interested in queercore, genderfuck, punk, poetry, photography, street art and the like.

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Lesbengeschichte (website)

Location

Germany

German lesbian-feminist history site, including biographical sketches and a list of German-language films with lesbian actors in the cast or showing relationships between women.

"Every social group needs access to its own history. Knowledge of our past gives us a cultural roots and a heritage with models and experiences to learn from and emulate or choose not to follow. Lesbians have been deprived of virtually all knowledge of our past. This is deliberate since it keeps us invisible, isolated and powerless. [...] the suppression of lesbianism extends beyond the control of contemporary images and information to include control of historical knowledge [...]."2

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European Feminisms: Books, Articles, Websites

Books
Jane Slaughter and Robert Kern, European Women on the Left: Socialism, Feminism, and the Problems Faced by Political Women, 1880 to the Present , Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Gisela Kaplan, Contemporary Western European Feminism, New York, NY: NYU Press, 1992.

T. Akkerman, Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History: 1400-2000 , London: Routledge, 1998.

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Reading Lists
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Gender studies
Grassroots media in Europe
History & memory
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WIRES (newsletter, 1975-1985?)

Location

United Kingdom

WIRES- Women's Information and Referral Enquiry Service

"Set up at the Manchester National WLM conference to collect and pass on info about the WLM [Women's Liberation Movement], operate an information service for women, and produce a twice monthly n/l. Initially a collective in Leeds took it in, and it was based in Leeds for over 2 years. Has been based in York since Xmas '77. Duplicated publication, circul. 600-700, extra copies produced for conferences, but has a wider readership.

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