Feminist Print History
PhD Research
‘Please Say More’: mediating conflict through letter-writing in British second wave feminist periodicals, 1970-1990
The Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s and 1980s saw a surge in women’s publishing that generated a woman-controlled communication infrastructure in the form of feminist periodicals. As a result of women actively contributing to the letter-to-the-editor pages, these periodicals offer …
Public Talks
Dear Sister: Mediating Feminist Conflict Before the Internet
FUTURESS | 2022 | Watch Here
Making Feminist History Visible: Women’s Archives and Records
FiLiA | 2022 | Listen Here
Academic Lectures and Conference Papers
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Social Practice
The Vancouver Women’s Library
In 2017 I co-founded The Vancouver Women's Library. Inspired by women-centered spaces of the past, and counterpublics of women developing around free access to women's writing, the VWL is as much a revival of feminist bookstores and women's presses as it is a re-imagination of what libraries can do for social movements. Having started with only 80 books in my artist studio, we ended up with approximately 2000 women-authored publications from sci-fi to memoirs, with hundreds of female members and a proper store front thanks to generous donations and support from around the world. Having grown far beyond a personal project, the VWL blossomed into a vibrant community of women with the help of incredible volunteers and local encouragement.
Frauenkultur Online Archive
Frauenkultur is an online resource archive for second wave feminist texts written between 1965-1995. I created this archive during the first Covid lockdown in 2020. It began as a project of cataloguing my own personal archive and quickly became a much bigger endeavour, including the development of themed subject guides. Many young women today do not know the extent to which second wave feminists wrote, edited, and published books. There exists a treasure trove of feminist writing and theory from the 1970s and 1980s that must not be forgotten or trivialised. Frauenkultur acts as a starting point for young feminists to make intergenerational linkages and discover overlooked historical material.