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After Sex on Screen

 

ICA, London
1 December 2023, 18:30
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Queer feminist film curation collective Club Des Femmes present a programme of short films on abortion and bodily autonomy in conversation with Silver Press’ new reproductive freedoms anthology After Sex. Working backwards – as reproductive justice access appears to be – from an artist’s film about the Repeal the 8th processions in Republic of Ireland in 2018 to illegal abortions in Australia in the 1930s, the programme of seven...


After Sex: Launch

ICA, London
24 November 2023, 19:00
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Who decides what happens after sex? What use is fair pay if childbearing and child-rearing prevents you from working? What might reproductive freedom, healthcare, childcare and sexual liberation look like in the future?

The last decade has seen an insidious rise in the criminalisation of abortions and the diminishing of bodily autonomy across the world, culminating in...


Edna Bonhomme, Tracy Fuad and Alice Spawls: After Sex

Diffrakt Centre for Theoretical Periphery, Berlin
26 November 2023, 7.30 pm
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Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. Political progress in Ireland has been countered by regressive action in the US. After Sex provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class...


Edna Bonhomme, Nell Dunn and Alice Spawls: After Sex

LRB Bookshop, London
16 November 2023
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Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. Political progress in Ireland has been countered by regressive action in the US. Join Edna Bonhomme and Alice Spawls, co-editors of the reproductive justice anthology After Sex, to launch the book in conversation with writer Nell Dunn.

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Free to Decide: Reproductive Rights for All

12 November 2023, 12:30 – 13:30
Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2023
Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
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Featured speakers: Kirsty Logan, Alice Spawls, Sian Norris.

To be able to experience true reproductive rights, we must have the freedom to say yes as well as no to parenthood. Yet patriarchy, racism and heteronormativity seek to force some into the role, and others out of it, through restricted abortion rights, denied fertility health care and myriad kinds of oppression...


Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear

 

The Chiron Choir, Sara Ahmed, Hannah Catherine Jones, Holly Pester join editors Irene Revell and Sarah Shin for poetry, performance and a panel discussion 

Southbank Centre, London
7 November 2024, 19:45
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‘I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind’, wrote composer Pauline Oliveros in 1973. ‘Sound...