Liberating Histories

Campaigns!

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How do feminist magazines promote women’s activism? In this episode we talk campaigns, cartels, cartoons, and court cases with two periodical pioneers: Lesley Riddoch, a founding member of Scottish feminist magazine Harpies and Quines (1992-1994) and Gail Chester of Women’s Report (1972-1979), the UK’s first national news magazine ‘for women, by women, about women’. We begin, however, with a question about the fiendishness of feminist crossword puzzles…

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https://liberatinghistories.org/resources/podcast-series/episode-4/

https://lesleyriddoch.com/about