Feminism - Hackney Citizen

Graphic novel brings Spitalfields-born feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to life

The Talbots draw Mary Wollstonecraft’s messy, radical life in ink

Author: Ellie Waterhouse

Graphic novel brings Spitalfields-born feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to life

‘World-first’ comic book about Mary Wollstonecraft’s life to be given out to primary schools

Book to be accompanied by six-week lesson plan, thanks to project involving Newington Green Meeting House

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘World-first’ comic book about Mary Wollstonecraft’s life to be given out to primary schools

Follow in the footsteps of Mary Wollstonecraft around Newington Green with locally made app

Enjoy a slice of Hackney history by taking a guided walk, virtually or physically, to the old haunts of the ‘foremother of feminism’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Follow in the footsteps of Mary Wollstonecraft around Newington Green with locally made app

Campaigners announce winning design for Mary Wollstonecraft statue

Artist and ‘modern legend’ Maggi Hambling chosen to create world’s first memorial to pioneering feminist on Newington Green

Author: Hackney Citizen

Campaigners announce winning design for Mary Wollstonecraft statue

Women’s Equality Party ‘very proud’ of election results after first ever Hackney candidate

Party chiefs praise Harini Iyengar who ran for mayor and Dalston councillor

Author: Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter

Women’s Equality Party ‘very proud’ of election results after first ever Hackney candidate

Making Her Mark: new exhibition shows that women’s activism in Hackney didn’t end after 1918

The stories of Hackney’s female activists over the past century are being celebrated at Hackney Museum – plus, a chance to nominate your own inspirational local women

Author: Hackney Citizen

Womens Day Parade poster. Image: Lenthall Road Workshop

Hackney’s older women are the emerging artists you need to be looking out for in 2018

Maisie Linford met with one of the founders of GRACE, ahead of their new residency, for a chat about fighting the “narrow stereotypes” of aging women using art and performance – including an impromptu strip-off

Author: Hackney Citizen

No stereotype: GRACE present a very different image of the aging woman that can be found in almost any other media. Photograp

Fringe! Queer Film Fest: pushing boundaries and celebrating queer history

We check out a screening of The Misandrists at the film festival, which is on across East London until Sunday

Author: Hackney Citizen

It started with a kiss: a still from The Misandrists. d. Bruce LaBruce

Whistle to blow on Romance FC’s women’s five-a-side tournament in Shoreditch this Saturday

The all-female football collective will take on 11 other teams from the South East and France for charity in the 2017 edition of Playing For Kicks

Author: Hackney Citizen

Squad up: the 2016 line-up of teams contesting Paying For Kicks. Photograph: Romance FC

London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

LFFF is based, as in previous years, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, but the full programme includes many other talks, workshops, and is capped by a screening of Iranian film The Sealed Soil

Author: Hackney Citizen

London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

Letter – “stark inequalities” remain this International Women’s Day

London Assembly Member Jennette Arnold OBE writes to the Citizen with some troubling statistics and her thoughts on relationship education

Author: Hackney Citizen

How to Date a Feminist, Arcola, review: ‘there was proper laughter, and lots of it’

Unconventional romantic comedy attempts to deconstruct the patriarchy, one laugh at a time

Author: Hackney Citizen

How to Date a Feminist, Arcola, review: ‘there was proper laughter, and lots of it’