This Is Not Love : Workshop Programme
July 8, 2021July – October For women aged 16- 26. Have fun, get creative, and feel empowered. Using art, drama, film and placard making, join other women in exploring and calling out sexual harassment and abuse of women.If you’re a woman aged 16-26 then sign up now for a programme of activities running until October in Hastings and St Leonards. All events are FREE and Covid compliant. Email: hastingswomensvoice@yahoo.com for a place. Please note: places are limited! Programme of events: Speaking Stories: Join writer and storyteller Rosanna to explore how storytelling can empower us as women.Saturday 17 July: 2.00pm – 4.pm.…
OUR BODIES, OUR MINDS, OUR STREETS: keeping the conversation going
When I was walking home from a friend’s house…a young man started following me and trying to chat me up. I felt quite scared…He asked if he could touch my hair and I said ‘yes’ even though I didn’t want…
March 2021, Women’s Voice Vigil Statements
For women collectively, March proved to be a heavy month. With the publishing of statistics showing just how widespread sexual harassment is, the murder of Sarah Everard and the call for justice for Blessing Olusegun, there was unsurprisingly an outpouring…
Women’s Voice programme offers space for young women to discuss and challenge sexism
Women’s Voice has received funding from Comic Relief to run various activities for women aged 16-26. The events aim to empower young women and provide spaces for them to discuss and challenge sexism. The first event, finding power through self-portrait,…
Heart of Women’s Voices
The Heart of Women’s Voices project aims to mark International Women’s Day on the 8th March and, like our This Is Not Love Project, is focusing on raising awareness of domestic violence against women, which has surged during lockdown. We…
White Ribbon Day
Today 25 November is White Ribbon Day, when we pledge to highlight, oppose and refuse to collude in violence against women. Hastings Borough Council has released a statement: Council unites against domestic violence On Wednesday (25 November), the world marks…
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain
The first Women’s Liberation Movement conference was held in Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970. Women at that conference made four demands: equal pay for equal work; free childcare; free abortion and contraception on demand; and equal education and job opportunities.…
50 YEARS – and still waiting
This year marks 50 years since the first national Women’s Liberation Movement conference took place, at Ruskin College, Oxford. The conference drew up four basic demands: equal pay for equal work; equal education opportunities; free contraception and abortion on demand,…
Women’s Voice is a not for profit Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), run by women for women in Hastings & St Leonards
