Amy Bell, Regional Organiser for the Midlands
Hello, fabulous feminists and pro-feminists! My name’s Amy, and I’m UK Feminista’s Regional Organiser for the Midlands. That covers both the East and West Midlands, so if you live right in the middle of England, then I’m your UK Feminista representative.
In the very near future, I’ll be blogging about all the fantastic feminist activism and events that are going on in the region, as well as providing details of women’s organisations across the area that deserve attention and support.
For the meantime, however, I’d like to point your attention to the Women’s Networking Hub charity dinner on Friday 27th January at the Bay Leaf restaurant in Birmingham – for just £20, you can enjoy a lovely three-course meal, meet likeminded women and listen to fab music, doing all this in the knowledge that you’ll be helping pay for transport and other costs for the Brum contingent to this years’ Million Women Rise march in London! More details are available on the Facebook event, or you can contact Shahida Choudhry on 07583 870568 for further details and tickets.
I’ll also be organising a feminist event in conjunction with UK Feminista later in the year, and would appreciate input into what the event will be, so if you’d like to give your ideas and opinions and/or would like to help organise the event, please email me at midlands.feminista@gmail.com. Finally, please also join the UK Feminista Midlands Facebook group and follow me on Twitter @MidsFeminista for more news, updates, information about feminist events and women’s organisations in the region and the opportunity to meet other feminists!
Here’s hoping that 2012 is the year the Midlands does lots more feministing…
I think it is great that Uk Feminista has made an attempt to go beyond London (after all the organisation does imply a national remit). However, I am interested to know where the Midlands rep is based and further intrigued to know how the Midlands rep will find out about the feminist activism in the Midlands? And where the event being planned later in the year will actually take place. I hope that women all over the Midlands in all their diversity (geographical and otherwise) will be given as much opportunity to join in as possible.
Thanks