Anarcha-Feminist Conference 2014 (London)

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at the same venue as the Bookfair, from 10am-6pm. They say: ‘AFem Conference 2014 will be the first of what we hope will be a series of international anarcha-feminist conferences.

The focus in this first year will be mainly, but not exclusively, on the anarchist movement itself and our place within it. The need for this has been obvious for a long time within anarchist organising. We are not represented in equal numbers and often are not taken seriously. Barriers to our full political participation remain intact and are reinforced by our own movement. We face oppression even in our own groups and organisations. Efforts to shut us down, belittle our ideas, and physically assault and abuse us have led to our anger. We identify an anti-feminist backlash where we have raised feminist and related anti-oppressive ideas. This means that our anarchist movement is not truly ‘anarchist’. We will no longer tolerate this. We want to transform our movement.’

The conference