Events tagged with "Women's Liberation Conference"
Women's access to bars
Pre 1960s Prior to the 1960s, and well into the 1970s there appears to have been very little opportunity indeed for lesbians to get together openly in a social or public space. All the bars noted as being popular with the gay crowd in the 40s and 50...
Women's Liberation Conference 1978 Birmingham
The last ever national Women's Liberation Conference was held in Birmingham in April 1978 at Ladywood School. The motion to have a separate freestanding seventh demand of the Women's Liberation Movement, 'An end to discrimination against lesbians', w...
Women's Liberation Day Conferences
During the late seventies and early eighties a series of Birmingham Women's Liberation Movement Day Conferences were held, at Tindal Street School. They dealt with the planning, and aftermath, of the Birmingham Women's Liberation Conference in 1978...
Women's Liberation Movement
The Women's Liberation Movement, or Women's Movement, or feminism, is very closely linked with many lesbians' lives, particularly those coming to recognise or define themselves as lesbian during the 1970s and 1980s. There are so many contributions ...
Memories tagged with "Women's Liberation Conference"
Fighting at the Conference 1978
The Birmingham Women’s Liberation Conference 1978"The split happened in Birmingham at the Women's Liberation Conference between the radical revolutionary feminists, the dyke arm, and the socialist feminists, the political arm. One of the main beliefs...
Organising the 1978 Women's Lib Conference
Trisha got involved in organising the April 1978 national Women's Liberation Conference, held in Birmingham. This was a significant point in her feminist development. At the time, she was living in a house with five men, one of whom she was having ...
Political lesbians (late 70s)
"Some of the dykes' sexuality was questioned sometimes and there was a big thing going on in the movement then about Women's Liberation Movement activists who became gay as a political end because it was a political statement to be gay. Ref: politica...
Rubyfruit played Birmingham and Chicago
“Rubyfruit consisted of Caroline Hutton, Lorna Eady and myself. Rubyfruit came about because some of us had been to Frankie Armstrong’s voice workshops; Caroline Hutton took me along, so there was already this interest in women's music, and all those...
Women's Liberation Conference 1978 music
Women's Liberation Conference 1978 music“I’d also taken responsibility for organising the music (for Saturday night social), I hadn’t got the right music, fortunately, Fran Rayner whose sister was in ‘Jam Today’, turned up and knew how to mix. I’d bo...
Women's Liberation Conference 1978 plenary
Women's Liberation Conference 1978 plenary:“The plenary at the end was nothing to do with me, but was deeply upsetting because everyone had reached the stage of upsettness which very often everyone gets to when they haven’t slept enough and everyone ...
Women's Liberation Conference disco 1978
Women's Liberation Conference disco 1978“I was working in a pub called the Ivy Bush, so I arranged that we would have the Friday night women's disco there but it was far too small a room, and we didn’t organise someone with a disco, a few of us broug...
Women’s Liberation Conference 1978
“I helped organise the National Women's Liberation Conference in 1978 - Oh GOD that was awful” (stress and peals of laughter). Oh god, and some of it was my fault that it was awful. (More laughter). I was 22, and I did all these things that if I met ...