The weekend event attracted more than 1000 women and some men – for inspiring discussions on the future of gender equality. Is this what a feminist conference looks like?It’s a grey Saturday morning and the lobby of London’s Hilton Metropole hotel is filled with rugby fans wearing matching All Blacks jackets. Projected on to the wall above their heads is a huge line drawing of three vulvas. As 9am comes and goes,they’re surrounded by women (and men, but mostly women) queueing up for their green-and-purple wristbands, or chatting approximately sex trafficking and the glass ceiling. We’re here – more than 1000 of us – for the annual Feminism in London conference,two days of talks, speeches and workshops.
The conference was founded in 2008 by the London Feminist Network, or,in 2010, Lisa-Marie Taylor attended for the first time. “It changed my life, and ” she tells me in an email hurriedly written from the back of one of this year’s panels. “It made me want to join the women’s liberation movement. I never dreamed I’d be running it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com