Date: Thursday 24th May
Time: 7.30pm
Location: 62 Marchmont road, Edinburgh
Researcher: Vanessa
Discussion: Sexism in Language

NOTE:  bring a laptop if you’ve got one!  As part of the discussion, we’re going to explore how sexism in our language and culture has been changing over time using this online linguistic corpus (just type in any words you want and it’ll show you how often those words appeared in google’s massive collection of books since 1800).  We’ll have enough laptops there for the break-out groups to use, but the more the merrier!

Reading:  Feminist meanings and the (de)politicization of the lexicon, by Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King.

Just read from the beginning through the end of page 64.
And optionally, the next section entitled “feminist linguistic innovations”.

To join the group please email betweenthelines.readinggroup@gmail.com

Date: Thursday 10th May
Time: 7.30pm
Location: 62 Marchmont road, Edinburgh
Researcher: Arielle
Debate: POLYAMORY
Readings:

The next topic is “Vegetarianism and feminism”, introduced by Lemor.

Readings are  the sections entitled “Virility, meat eating, and the politics of meat” and”The absent referent”, from the arcticle “Why feminist-vegan now?” by Carol J. Adams (in the journal “Feminism and Psychology” available here

http://ethik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_ethik_wiss_dialog/Adams__C._2010._Why_fem_vegan_in_femin_-pscho_302.full.pdf

For more details email us!

Time: 7.30-9pm

Topic: Cyborgs, Technology and Gender

Researchers: Rhi and Patrycja

Reading:

The main readings are:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffharaway_pr.html

and Cynthia Cockburn (to obtain this reading email us at betweenthelines-request@lists.riseup.net)

For the cyborg enthusiasts, see Haraway (link above), but don’t worry about this one, as we will look at a couple of pages during the meeting, and decipher collectively what on earth she is talking about!

Here is a write-up of last weeks DIY discussion where we began a conversation about radical consent. We’ll be continuing this discussion at the session in March, so if you’d like to join us you could have a read through what we covered or if you were there and want a reminder, hopefully this is helpful.

If anyone has discussion points around radical consent or exercises that they’d like to propose to the group that’d be great! and if you wanna feed anything in then email the organising list.

Please also email us for the address of the venue where DIY Discussions is held.

Next discussion…

When?: 1st March 2012 at 19.30pm
where?: 62 marchmont road, Edinburgh.

Topic: Are the slut walks Empowering?
readings:
Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: read the chaper ” raunch culture”

People of all genders, colours, backgrounds and sexualities etc are welcome.  We meet in a ground floor flat so access isn’t a problem.  We are open to new topic suggestions.

For more info or to join the mailing list email us at betweenthelines.readinggroup@gmail.com

After a little break over the cold winter period, the first event will take place on Tuesday the 28th of February from 7pm – 11pm.

Please email us for the address of where we will be meeting.

The topic of discussion is ‘Safer Sex’ and we will be skillsharing techniques in massage and aromotherapy.

Click here for more information on DIY Discussions.

Anarcha-feminists have recently begun meeting fortnightly to discuss interesting readings together.

Where? 62 Marchmont road

When? Fortnightly on Thursdays @ 7pm

The next reading group will take place on the 5th of January.

This space is entirely inclusive to all genders, sexualities and backgrounds, and there will be tea! All are welcome.

On December the 7th we will be holding a special Christmasy DIY Discussion to help raise money for The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) a women’s group who have been active in many amazing and inspiring ways since the ’70′s. We will be making crafts together to be sold at a Christmas Fayre in Tollcross on the 17th to raise money for the group. We’ll also be talking about ‘Feminism in the Middle East’ with a special focus on RAWA.

Please join us for what is sure to be a fun evening!

Where to find us:

We normally hold DIY Discussions in somebodies house, but tomorrow we will be holding the event in “The People’s Cafe” 3 Bristo Place Edinburgh, in support of the recent occupation of this important community space. You will find us in the front room (first right as you enter through the cafe) in the old ‘snip and sip’ room of the ex-Forest cafe.

Here’s what we’ll be up to:

6.00pm – 8.00pm  Film Showing “View From a Grain of Sand”  Read the synopsis of the film here

8.00pm – 9.30pm  Creative Craft making and skill sharing

9.30pm – 11.00pm Discussion

What to bring:

Please bring any materials you would like to use to make things with. It could be wool, wood, thread, cardboard, fabric, you name it! The sky’s the limit! If you can’t think of anything to make, don’t worry! Part of the point of the evening is to share ideas and skills and learn to make things we haven’t tried before.

Snacks! We’ll definitely get hungry so bring along some food to share. A constant supply of tea will be provided!

As this event will take place at someone’s house, please email us at edinburghanarchafeminist[at]noflag.org.uk and we will send you the address.

More about the Christmas Fayre

All of your amazing donations will be sold at the “Tollcross Mini Christmas Fayre” which is taking place at the Tollcross Community Centre, 117 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh from 1.00pm – 3.30pm on the 17th of December. Come along! The fayre is a great place to find home made Christmas presents, and will have homemade bread, christmas gift cakes, hand quilted bags, winter chutneys, hand felted scalves, botanical art, books, food and many more things on sale.

Let’s end our reliance on corporations and avoid souless high street consumerism by supporting little initiatives like this one!

More about RAWA Solidarity Scotland

RAWA Solidarity Scotland is a grassroots group based in Edinburgh that actively supports the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). If you can’t come along to DIY Discussions, but would still like to donate something to the stall for RAWA, please email the Edinburgh Anarcha Feminist Collective and let them know. Your donations are hugely appreciated! Thank you.