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Sisters of Frida at #WOWLdn
This year is amazing! so many of us will be at the WoW festival this weekend! do go along and support -if you can get a ticket!
Coming out as disabled: Body Image, labels and denial of disability
One in five of us is disabled – so why do we try to hide it from our friends? How do we ‘come out’ as disabled women?
Zara Todd
Venue Level 4 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall
Time 11:15am – 12:15pm
Date Saturday 12 March 2016
One in five of us is disabled – so why do we try to hide it from our friends? How do we ‘come out’ as disabled women? Four women tell their stories. Speakers include Deborah Williams, Diversity Manager BFI; Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, Visiting Lecturer, Sociology at University of Westminster and Rebecca Bunce, human rights researcher and campaigner.
Chaired by Zara Todd, disability rights campaigner and activist.
In partnership with Sisters of Frida.
Others
Sexism Makes Us Sick Examining Woman’s health
Annabel Crowley
Venue St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall
Time3:45pm – 4:45pm
Date Saturday 12 March 2016
Examining women’s health Heart disease kills more women than men each year, fewer women than men survive a heart attack, so why do we hear so little about it? In mental health, women are more than twice likely than men to have depression and less likely to be taken seriously. How does gender affect physical and mental health care and what can we do to change the status quo? Speakers include Bridget Hargreaves, author of post natal depression memoir Fine Not Fine; Dr Victoria Showunmi, lecturer on migraines at the UCL Institute of Education.
Chaired by Annabel Crowley.
Toilets are a Feminist Issue
Sarah Rennie
Venue St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival HallÂ
Time2:15pm – 3:15pm
Date Saturday 12 March 2016
Come and find out why you should give a shit about toilets. From women always having to queue, to the lack of toilet facilities in the developing world having a devastating effect on women’s safety, what can toilet provision tell us about gender equality? Come and join the grand doyenne of public toilets Prof. Clara Greed; award winning writer and feminist Beatrix Campbell; Changing Places campaigner and disabled feminist Sarah Rennie and periods activist and founder of #periodpostive Chella Quint to discuss. Beware – there may be toilet humour.
Chaired by New Statesman Deputy Editor, Helen Lewis.
- Type of event
- Talks and debates
- Running Time
- 60 mins
Chores Wars and Domestic Lives
Pauline Latchem (photo from Eleanor Lisney)
Venue The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival HallÂ
Time1:15pm – 2:15pm
Date Sunday 13 March 2016
Studies show that women still do twice as many chores as male partners, even when they work full-time. From housework to ‘emotional labour’, is this one of the last frontiers of normalised gender inequality? And how can we level the playing field? Speakers include counseller and lifelong feminist Pauline Latchem, and teacher and writer Lola Okolosie.
Chaired by Laura Bates, founder Everyday Sexism Project.
Black Feminisms/Black Women Pop Culture
Becky Olaniyi
Venue Level 3 Foyer (Green Side) at Royal Festival HallÂ
Time4:00pm – 5:00pm
Date Sunday 13 March 2016
What does the portrayal of black women in popular culture tell us about race, sex and power? Join journalist and campaigner Reni Eddo Lodge, visual sociologist Emma Dabiri, activist Becky Olaniyi and playwrite Adura Onashile as they discuss the joys and challenges of being a black feminist.
Chaired by Senior Programmer, Contemporary Culture and journalist Hannah Azieb Pool
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