FEM-ZINEThe Feminist Webs Zine March 2010

Tour 2009

www.feministwebs.com

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ContentsPage

What is Feminist Webs? 2The Tour 3 - 4The Archive 5 - 6Feministory 7Archive to Zine 8Halton 9 - 11Water Adventure Centre (WAC) 12 - 14Stockport 15 - 17Moston 18 - 21Wigan 22 - 24Fundraising 25 - 26

Ambreen Yasin (Moston)Harriet Clancy (Moston)Akesia Nelson (Moston)Emma ConnollyLaura HoughtonLorna FarleyCourtney Bailey (Moston)Demi Lunt (Moston)Sophie (Wigan)Bianca Jansen (Wigan)Grace Easton (Wigan)Shannon Morrison (Wigan)Megan Cromleholme (Wigan)Ashley Wilson (Wigan)Abbie Huges (Wigan)Nikkia Sharma (Stockport)Tracy Parker (Stockport)Carmen James (Stockport)Amy Collins (Stockport)Donna Higgins (Stockport)Jodie Mulholland (Stockport)Olivia Ashwin (Stockport)Kerry-Anne Grime (Stockport)Nicola Ankers (Stockport)Natalie Lofts (Stockport)

Trudi Mottershead (Stockport)Ella Emery (Stockport)Tyler Davidson (Stockport)Stacey Bell (Stockport)Kelly-Ann Siddal (Stockport)Rachel Martin (Stockport)Elaine O’Reilly (Stockport)Rachel Gregory (Stockport)Sophie Goldstraw (Stockport)Kirsty Lee Machin (Stockport)Jessica Daniels (Stockport)Kerry Davies (Stockport)Michelle Edwards (Stockport)Julia Whyte (Stockport)Cheallsea Whitehead (Stockport)Chloe Dutton (Stockport)Damson Tregaskis (Stockport)Charlotte Drayson (Stockport)Samantha Towers (Stockport)Hayley Andrews (Stockport)Bethany McNulty (Stockport)Stacey Timothy (Stockport)Michelle Timothy (Stockport)Kelley Angus (Halton)Helen Suggett (Halton)

Heather Cook-Hannah (Halton)Jade Brennan (Halton)Sinead Rowe (Halton)Lauren Bell (Halton)Rachel Fallon (Halton)Nicola Jackson (Halton)Sarah Orr (Halton)Emma Jamieson (Moston)Sam Long (Moston)Lana Alder (Moston)Demmi-ann Gaskell (Moston)Rebecca Gaskell (Moston)Sophie Campbell (Moston)Demi East (Moston)Nikkia Sharma (Moston)Scarlett Stubbs (Moston)Lauren Teale (Moston)Gemma Gaskell (Moston)Zara-Joy Manozhoztoy (Wigan)Sophie SmithMegan CrombleholmeShannon Morrison (Wigan)

and lots of others including the Feminist Webs team

Contributors

About us page 2

What is Feminist Webs? ‘feminist webs’ is an idea, and a movement which seeks to draw on and collect the ideas of the past to inspire wonderful young women and girls youth work today. There is an online archive of youth work ‘stuff’ from the past and new resources www.feministwebs.com and a physical archive housed at Manchester Metropolitan University.

In phase 1 an intergenerational group developed a resource called ‘Done Hair and Nails, Now What?’; in phase 2 young women were trained in Oral Histories and Archiving and an archive was developed which included a number of Oral Histories the young women had gathered from older feminist youth workers.

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Feminist Webs – the tour! (Feminist webs - phase 3)

Our intergenerational volunteers’ group and youth workers ran 5 local events across the North West of England. At each event young women could ….· Make an animation about young women’s images of themselves/ their bodies· Make a banner· Browse the feminist webs archive and make pages for the zine· interview older feminist youth workers in their area· make postcards for the “ ‘post’-feminist” postcard campaign to send to local/national decision makers asking for what young women need to develop and maintain positive body images.

As well as ….· do some work around what sexism/feminism is· have an opportunity for planning a feminist event, project or idea that they will take back to their own setting· fundraise for the Monduli Community Education Fund for Girls in Tanzania

And youth workers could ….· work together to think about and develop their own feminist youth work practice

What next ….

The national launch in March 2010 at the Women’s Library in London, with the zine, the postfeminist postcard campaign, the archive on display, the animation, the banner ….

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The Tour Dates Wonderful Women of Halton - 5 September 2009 Girls R Loud at Stockport Hat Museum - 22 October 2009 Women are Celebrated at the Water Adventure Centre, Tameside - 23 October 2009 Girls R Us at North City Library, Moston - 28 October 2009 Very Important Females in Wigan - 31 October 2009

Feminist Webs – The Archive

The Feminist Webs archive is both a physical resource, held at Manchester Metropolitan University, and an online resource.

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The physical archive

Materials gathered from youth workers and feminists during phase 2 of Feminist Webs.

It includes…

Books related to feminist youth work practice, feminism more widely and ‘Spare Rib’, a feminist magazine from 1972-1993

Photos, newsletters, videos, audio tapes and reports of the work of young women and youth workers from the 1970s to the present day

Examples of work produced by those young women’s groups such as banners, posters and badges

Making Feminist History, Imagining Feminist Futures

www.feministwebs.com

On-line

The website includes...Many downloadable resources including session plans for young women’s work today. A growing catalogue of the physical archive. An audio archive of interviews of older feminist youth workers

Check www.feministwebs.com for further information

The Archive on Tour

Samples from the Archive went on tour to 5 young women’s events in the North West in the autumn of 2009. Women could browse the books and magazines, listen to the interviews, look at the photos and much more. Elements of the archive prompted thought, discussion and comment and in the process a little more feminist herstory was made.

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DIY Feministory

Women of all ages reading and learning about feminist history together and through the archive - this zine tells the feministory of the events through two distinctly different sets of images...

* Young women taking part in the archive workshops throughout each day were asked to capture images of the event, the activities going on and those involved.

* Reactions to different elements of the archive on tour have been captured by scanner and camera

We hope you enjoy this piece of DIY Feministory

The Feminist Webs archive is both a physical resource, held at Manchester Metropolitan University and an online resource. The archive contains materials gathered in phase 2 of feminist webs, audio oral history interviews with feminist youth workers, as well as books, banners, posters, badges, photos, newsletters, and lots of session plans for doing girls work with young women.

See www.feministwebs.com for more.

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From Archive to Zine – DIY Feministory

In phase 3 we brought the archive on tour, so that women could browse the books and magazines, listen to the interviews, look at the photos, and in the process make their own feminist history – or herstory. This zine tells the feministory of bringing the archive on tour, of women of all ages reading and learning about feminist history through the archive, and making feminist herstory now.

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Halton

Calling the wonderful women of Halton………..!

On Saturday 5th September 2009 Halton Youth Service and friends will be hosting a North West tour of activities for girls, young women and female youth

workers!

On the day there will be……

• Opportunities to get involved in regional and national events• Animation Workshops• Graffiti banner making• Huh? What’s feminism?

• Refreshments• Event planning (training on August 15th)

• Create a ‘zine’

There is also an amazing opportunity to help deliver or run the day, so if you’re interested in a one-day ‘event management’ training on Saturday 15th

August then please complete the attached consent form and return it in the envelope provided. If you can’t commit to this training but would like to attend

please indicate this on the consent form!Warmest regards,

Ali Hanbury - Youth Work Coordinator

Here’s some images to get your brains ticking over………..

it was a realy positive day and it was alot of fun, i liked seeing and working with all of these diffrent typs of women. it was realy fun and very educzational :)xx jade brennan

I really enjoyed the weekender in Halton. I took part in the works shop and went really well. I really enjoyed the animation workshop and the ban-ner making. I really enjoyed meeting young women from through out the north west and discussing different types of issues from like knowing the difference between feminism to sexism. Also we discussed what we like as women ourselves!!! Since the weekender there has been a young womens forum set up where we can diuss issues... sarah orr

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WAC

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Stockport

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Moston

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Poems From North Library 28th October 2009What Young Women Want

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I don’t want to be told what to doI don’t want to be at the back of life’s queueI don’t want to be in a bad positionI want to make all my decisions

I want to be free rich and happyNot spend my whole life changing nappiesI want to be respectedAnd not rejected

I want an independent lifeDon’t want to be expected to be a housewife

By Young women from WAC and Ardwick youth club

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I am a woman, hear me roarThere’s more to me than doing choresI don’t want to be oppressed or misleadMy life shouldn’t revolved around what time he gets fed

I am a woman, hear me roarI want to follow my own starBe accepted for who I am and who want to beAnd the media must learn to play fairly

I am a woman, hear me roarFrom this life I want moreWant to be successful, happy and make my markBe empowered, a light in the dark

By Samira, Rebecca and Nicole Kay

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I don’t want to be stuck in a dead end jobDon’t want to get married to a slobDon’t want to work on a tillDon’t want to be a teenage mum so I’ll go on the pill

I want to have a good job and travel the worldAnd when I Speak up, I want to be heardHave my own business and marry someone richFly away on a private jet when I feel the itch

I’ll feel good about myself and feel lovedAnd be with someone I can trust

By Young women from Ardwick Youth Club, Moston Youth Centre and White Moss

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Being a woman, I don’t want to struggle for moneySpending all my time on housework wouldn’t be funnyI don’t want to get stuck in a rutI don’t want to be judged by the size of my but

Having a career I enjoy would be the way to goAnd travel the world, see what it has to showEarn more than enough to support my childrenAnd make a difference to the future I’m building

Being a woman I’d like to be unrestricted, respected, as happy as can beProud of myself, happy to be me

By Young women from Moston Youth Project and White Moss

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Wigan

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FundraisingMaasai Girls Education Fund

Along the way the Feminist Webs Tour young women raised money for the:

Maasai Girls Educational Fund

Wigan held a prize draw

WAC sold cakes and held a prize draw, the winner receiving a reconditioned bicycle

Halton sold cakes too

Stockport aptly held a hat auction at the Hat Museum

And

Moston had us guessing how many sweets in the jar

Altogether Feminist Webs raised £622.26

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ICA Tanzania’s Community Education Fund (ICEF)

- was formed in 2006 for the purpose of helping Maasai girls to access secondary school education. The Fund was initially set up with funds from ICA:UK but now also attracts funds from individuals in the USA and Canada. It seeks to support those children most in need through their education to Advanced Level at which point they can access Government loans to continue higher Education.

- ICEF was set up for girls only due to the fact that they were less considered in their community and priority was being given to boys. The overall goal is to empower them to confront the economic and cultural challenges they face in their community and in Tanzania in general.

- Initially set up to support four students per year, the fund currently sponsors 16 Maasai young women attending schools in the Monduli district in Tanzania.

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for the continuing story go to

www.feministwebs.com