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<title type="text">The F-Word: Activism</title>
<subtitle type="text">Contemporary UK feminism.</subtitle>
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<updated>2009-11-18T22:11:00Z</updated>


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<title type="text"> A gude cause maks a strong arm</title>
<summary type="text">Wisrutta Atthakor reports back from the Gude Cause march through Edinburgh, 100 years to the day since Scottish suffragettes took to the city&apos;s streets</summary>
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<updated>2009-11-18T22:11:00Z</updated>
<published>2009-11-18T15:35:27Z</published>
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<name>Wisrutta Atthakor</name>
<uri>http://pumpkinpistudio.blogspot.com/</uri>
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<entry>
<title type="text">Feminism in London 2009 </title>
<summary type="text">Charlotte Cooper reports back from the capital&apos;s second Feminism in London conference</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/10/feminism_in_lon</id>
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<updated>2009-10-24T18:17:42Z</updated>
<published>2009-10-13T19:25:14Z</published>
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<name>Charlotte Cooper</name>
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<title type="text">How to organise a demonstration</title>
<summary type="text">In this case study, Carrie Supple explains how she and Louise Morris organised a protest to support Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein - and how you can use the same techniques to organise a demo for your campaign too</summary>
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<updated>2009-09-17T11:15:40Z</updated>
<published>2009-09-15T13:57:14Z</published>
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<name>Carrie Supple</name>
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<entry>
<title type="text">Turn your back on Page 3</title>
<summary type="text">Francine Hoenderkamp explains her campaign to ban Page 3</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/08/dear_clare_i_ha</id>
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<updated>2009-08-14T17:38:44Z</updated>
<published>2009-08-13T12:18:22Z</published>
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<name>Francine Hoenderkamp</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Stink bombing the beauty pagaent</title>
<summary type="text">Protesters from Smash Miss Contest sneaked into the Miss London University beauty contest, releasing stinkbombs and distributing letters to the audience. Sarah Levack reports</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/04/stink_bombing_t</id>
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<updated>2009-04-27T21:11:11Z</updated>
<published>2009-04-27T20:32:39Z</published>
<author>
<name>Sarah Levack</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Piercing the whitening silence</title>
<summary type="text">Terese Jonsson calls for all white feminists (herself included) to step up to the plate on racism and white privilege</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/03/piercing_the_wh</id>
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<updated>2009-03-16T23:19:12Z</updated>
<published>2009-03-16T19:22:35Z</published>
<author>
<name>Terese Jonsson</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Grassroots feminism 2.0?</title>
<summary type="text">Want to make connections with grassroots feminist activists across borders and languages? Melanie Maddison talks to Red Chidgey about an online project that aims to help us do just that</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/03/who_are_you_and</id>
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<updated>2009-03-03T23:28:54Z</updated>
<published>2009-03-03T21:44:16Z</published>
<author>
<name>Melanie Maddison</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">We&apos;re all in this together</title>
<summary type="text">Irish and British women must unite in the battle for reproductive rights, argue Ariel Silvera and Sinead Ahern, as they sketch out the history of abortion in Ireland and the UK</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/10/were_all_in_thi</id>
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<updated>2008-10-26T23:56:49Z</updated>
<published>2008-10-26T23:03:52Z</published>
<author>
<name>Various Authors</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Whose feminism is it?</title>
<summary type="text">Is feminism reaching women of colour? How about women who didn&apos;t go to university, teenage mums, or women who do not have access to the internet? Annika Spalding calls for change</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/09/feminism_of_tod</id>
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<updated>2008-09-23T13:42:04Z</updated>
<published>2008-09-22T20:35:09Z</published>
<author>
<name>Annika Spalding</name>
<uri>http://birminghamfeminists.blogspot.com/</uri>
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<entry>
<title type="text">Across the porn divide</title>
<summary type="text">It&apos;s time to end the battle of words, argues Debi Crow</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/09/across_the_porn</id>
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<updated>2008-09-10T15:31:48Z</updated>
<published>2008-09-10T10:23:03Z</published>
<author>
<name>Debi Crow</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Million Women Rise - Reflections</title>
<summary type="text">Around 5,000 women gathered from across the UK and marched through central London. Although they received no mainstream media attention, the march and rally have since become the subject of much discussion.  Louise Livesey talks to some of the people involved...</summary>
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<updated>2008-12-07T22:48:30Z</updated>
<published>2008-08-23T18:51:04Z</published>
<author>
<name>Louise Livesey</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">The future of activism</title>
<summary type="text">Protests seem to be ignored, so what&apos;s a disgruntled feminist to do? Deborah McAlister considers some of the options</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/07/the_future_of_a</id>
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<updated>2008-07-18T22:38:51Z</updated>
<published>2008-07-18T21:15:56Z</published>
<author>
<name>Deborah McAlister</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Come on Boris, what you got?</title>
<summary type="text">Sandrine Levêque from Object reports on the next stage in the campaign to change the licensing laws for lap-dancing clubs</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/06/come_on_boris_w</id>
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<updated>2008-06-26T23:00:43Z</updated>
<published>2008-06-26T22:44:45Z</published>
<author>
<name>Sandrine Levêque</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Stripping the illusion...</title>
<summary type="text">Lap-dancing clubs are licensed in the same way as coffee shops. Anji Capes reports on the launch of a campaign to change all that</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/05/stripping_the_i</id>
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<updated>2008-05-04T21:57:12Z</updated>
<published>2008-05-03T08:50:54Z</published>
<author>
<name>Anji Capes</name>
<uri>http://shutupsitdown.wordpress.com/</uri>
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<entry>
<title type="text">Labours left unfinished: third wave feminism</title>
<summary type="text">The third wave and riot grrrl may be inspiring, but risk ignoring feminist history and swapping radical action for gigs and zines. In a fiery essay, Red Chidgey poses some difficult questions</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/03/labours_left_un</id>
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<updated>2008-03-10T21:40:00Z</updated>
<published>2008-03-10T16:53:09Z</published>
<author>
<name>Red Chidgey</name>
<uri>http://www.redchidgey.net/</uri>
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