Combating pornography and violence
1983
“We (the revolutionary
feminist group) were involved with WAVAW (Women Against Violence
Against Women) and the anti-pornography stuff. We were always very
active in the marches against violence against women; we marched to and
invaded a couple of porn shops, and got locked in, and I remember
turning round and seeing through the window, Stacey with a great big
brick in her hand shouting ‘Get out the way’ and she just chucked it at
the window and smashed it and we all got out. It all went a bit wrong,
that one, we’d done a press release which had been Gestetnered on the
machine at my house, and the stupid woman who was in charge had already
delivered the press release, and of course everything had gone wrong
and we’d done criminal damage, so I had to race home and get rid of the
Gestetner machine in case anyone caught me! That wasn’t just us." (the
Revolutionary Feminists).
Contributed by: Trisha McCabe, 51