We have four exciting events coming up-

- Stockport’s ‘In Your Face’ on 11am-3pm 26th November. download the flyer here: 0978 In your face A4 v2

- On 3rd December 2.30pm-5.30pm Saturday 3rd December we have herstory through history

- Halton’s Histree event 5.30pm Thursday 8th December

- SPY in Tameside’s Eyes Wide Shut Event on Saturday 17th December

Contact us for more details feministwebs@yahoo.co.uk

Omena, one of our feminist webs young women features in this fun and uplifting music video… so check it out

(its the soundtrack to the vimto advert too!)

We are planning a conference open to women who are young, old and every age in between!

The theme is resilience!

It will be 12-4pm on Saturday 12th November.

If you would like to come along to participate, run a workshop or have a stall, then please contact us feministwebs@yahoo.co.uk or download the details Carnival Information and Application

We are making a book of our work under the main theme of resilience! We are looking for ideas for content and for people to contribute fun and exciting things, can include text as well as cartoons, pictures, mind maps.

It is very early stages, but if you have ideas, please come to our event on 10th September (see previous post) or email feministwebs@yahoo.co.uk

Some Feminist Webbers are keen to develop the archive we have at MMU, Didsbury (Room 101! in the admin building) and we are proposing a meeting there on 14th October.

It wil start at 1pm, so bring your own lunch! We will be discussing creating a collection policy, deciding what to exhibit in March at the People’s History Museum, updating the website pages, and we might also catalogue some new donations.

New people welcome, so do come along, no previous experience necessary either!

Unemployment figures out today (August 17th) show that women’s unemployment is now at its highest in more than 20 years – 1.05 million women are now unemployed,  the highest figure since May 1988. More than half a million women  – 512,700 – are now claiming job seekers allowance -  the highest figure since April 1996. Read more..

Melanie Byan has won Britains Real Role Model 2011 award

Full details can be found at: http://bit.ly/kBEYOB

This award is championed by Amway and came about in response to surveys that demonstrate that people, (and in particular young people), struggle to identify real role models. Melanie says:

“This is a huge and very unexpected honour and one that I feel a tremendous responsibility to live up to. There are so many amazing inspirational people out there to aspire to, that I find it very sad when people, and particularly young people, struggle to name anybody outside of celebrity circles as a role model. Over the years I have been inspired by many real people, including my primary school teacher, Mrs Stephenson who encouraged me to be incessantly curious and who taught me that nothing but my personal best is ever acceptable; and my Nana who showed me what  ‘giving back’ means in practice, and who embodied the saying that ‘if you want something doing, ask a busy person’. As my favourite African proverb says: if you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been to bed with a mosquito. We can all make a positive difference in our own way. I very much want this award to be a springboard for positive change, and will be actively exploring with Amway how we can work together to achieve this.  I look forward to an exciting year!”

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