Its time to start organising the next Reclaim the Night march, and so this is your first chance to get involved! Many of those involved in organising the last march are unable to commit to another run so we’re looking for some new women to get involved with the next one, to bring new ideas, [...]
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RTN is back
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Femmestruation Week
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Edinburghs new Anarchafeminist Kolektiv is planning a week for of activities in February 13-20th around the topice of menstruation, looking at a whole range of topics including the impact on the environment from tampons etc (and the alternatives available) to various gigs, zines and chances to discuss how menstruation affects our lives (whether its something [...]
Trans Issues and feminism, October 4th Discussion
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
4th October Meeting Notes
Sunday’s meeting was well attended with 16 of us turning up to discuss the topic of Feminism & Trans Identities: most of us were first timers so after brief introductions and cake we began talking about Julie Bindle’s article.
Whilst not all of us were aware of Julie Bindle the thrust of her [...]
Pub Night – Next Tues
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Feministas and friends, following our last social its pub time again, following the pattern of our sometime-between-monthly discussion groups pub plan. So….
***Next Tuesday 20th October at 6pm @ the Blind Poet ***
Its on West Nicolson Street, next to the Pear Tree. As before a relaxed, mixed night (menfolk welcome) open to all [...]
Gude Cause this Saturday!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
10th of October is the Gude Cause March celebrating 100 years of Women’s suffrage by by reinacting the original procession which took place in Edinburgh. People will be assembling on Bruntsfield links at 12 Noon on the day, see http://www.gudecause.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Gude-Cause-Procession-Final-Details.pdf for all the exciting details!
Discussion Group – 4th October
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
EFN Women’s Discussion Group
4th October 3-5pm
Mac Donald Road Library (Off Leith Walk)
Trans-Friendly, Children Welcome,
Venue is wheelchair accessible
Topic: Trans Identities and Feminism
Following the recent headlines about an athlete put through ‘gender-testing’, and some discussion of Julie Bindels comments on transexual and transgender people and politics within the group we are having an open discussion [...]
Social Time
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
***NEXT Tues 22nd September at 6pm***
September Discussion – Summary
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A brief summary of what I thought were the main points at Sunday’s discussion group on the topic of women in politics:
(Admin: please feel free to add anything I may have skipped over, especially on the topic of Harriet Harman’s comments, as I wasn’t present for that part)
Harriet Harman’s comments: “Men cannot be left to [...]
Next Discussion Group
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The next EFN discussion group will be on the 6thof September at 3-5 in the Nelson Hall in the McDonald Road Library. We”ll be looking at two topics:
A think about women in Politics, following from Harriet Harmen’s now infamous comments! Is an affirmative action/quota type arrangement necessary to encourage women into political careers? Why don’t [...]
Access to meetings
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder that our next discussion group is this Sunday, try and have a think of things you want to talk about before you come so we can have an amazing, productive discussion on International Solidarity.
Just to clarify, we’ve said in our publicity that The McDonald Road Library is accessible. The library has a [...]
