Creative Feminisms in a Capitalist World
Channel: British Library
Date: 2021-02-24

What are the challenges and successes in balancing purpose, feminist principles and profit?

How have activists used publishing and other media forms to empower readers, create writers and establish communities? What is the role of business in feminist movements, in the past and in the future? How are feminist politics transformed when they are published and consumed in the marketplace?

This intergenerational panel discusses how ideas can be shared through the commercial world. It reflects on how activists in times gone by have shared feminist ideas with great effectiveness, offering inspiration and courage in uncertain present times.

The conversations will be followed by Q&A featuring Roisin Boyd, journalist and Spare Rib collective member in the 1980s, Sofia Niazi of One of My Kind magazine and Catherine Riley, general manager of Primadonna Festival.

Chaired by Dr Lucy Delap, author of Feminisms: A Global History.