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Generations of Activism: Celebrating Girls Work Launch
March 23, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join with women of all ages and backgrounds for a day of conversation, creativity and banner making inspired by the objects and themes within the Feminist Webs Archive.
The Feminist Webs archive, housed now in the People’s History Museum, Manchester, and partially digitised, is one aspect of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
The archive is a ‘women and girls work space’ and a resource for practitioners, volunteers and young women involved in youth and community work with young women. Feminist Webs encourages participation and focuses on women’s rights and experiences. We pride ourselves on working across the generations in everything that we do, and we involve people from many communities in our work, including people of all ethnicities, sexualities, classes, and faiths, academics, practitioners, and everyday people who want to see a better world for women.
Girls Work, part of the archive, was a youth work moment in the 1970s and 1980s that focused on girls, their rights and their potential. Feminist youth workers across the country were determined to address the conditions of young women’s lives, the politics of everyday life and relationships, and a politics of social action. To celebrate the legacy of Girls Work, we have begun a collaborative project – Generations of Activism – 1918 – 1978 – 2018 – to celebrate 100 years of women’s enfranchisement, feminist youth work, and current feminist activism.
The project launches with an event in the People’s History Museum, Manchester, on the 23rd of March, 2018. The event will focus on some 1970s themes from Girls work: Our Bodies, Ourselves; Violence against Women; Creativity and Culture; and Women and Work. Throughout the day there will be talks, inter-generational conversations, and a chance to reflect on activism then and now, and to browse the Feminist Webs and Girls Work archive. There will be silkscreen and banner-making workshops in the Museum and connected creative and adventurous activities around the area.
The event is free and part of the Wonder Women Festival. There will be a second event in October 2018 to celebrate the International Day of the Girl.