Edinburgh Anarchists

Message fae Old Hat Books Collective:

Hello all!

Please come along to our Femstruation Week reading party this Wednesday!

The theme is “What Your Mother Never Told You!”

Decide for yourself what this means and come along and read us some things that made you think!

Short passages, haikus, poems, slogans, whole books, plays or jokes, please come and share!

There will be tea, but please bring cakes to share too!

The parties are always fun and good places to see what the library is about and to meet new people and hear lovely words!

Wear an old hat if you’d like too!

5pm – 7pm!

Please tell all your friends and make this event of Femstruation Week fully rad!

Over and out,

Old Hat Books. xxx
Oh, you can bring pictures too, to show and tell. We like pictures.

Edinburgh Anarchafeminist Kollectiv are planning a week of events aiming to break taboos around menstruation. I think it’s scheduled for February next year. More when we know it, in the mean time, visit their blog and get in touch if you want to get involved.

from 7 pm in the Forest Cafe:
Screenings:

• RIOT GRRRL MOVEMENT IN EUROPE AND AMERICA IN THE NINETIES
• ANARCHA FEMINIST FESTIVAL CLITFEST
• QUEERRUPTION DOCUMENTARY

all-female and female fronted punk bands from all over the world
from 7 pm in the Forest cafe:
CONFIRMED PERFORMERS AND BANDS:

• SELLOTAPE
• DEBORAH with SILENT THEORY ORCHESTRA – looped guitar, spoken word, poetry
• ANNA- poems, reading and performance
• WITCHES REVENGE – angry girls punk
• SCOUTTS BAND – raw folk
• (JO)ANNE BONNY pirate DJ
• OTHER BANDS t.b.c.

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan benefit stall
Anarchafeminist and D.I.Y. GIRLZ ZINES stall

COME ALONG!!!!
FROM 7 TIL LATE AT THE FOREST
EVERYBODY WHO SUPPORT THE NIGHT IS WELCOME
ESPECIALLY GIRLS WHO HAVE D.I.Y. STALLS AND PLAY!!!

Next week sees a cluster of events under the banner of Edinburgh Feminist Freeschool. See the full schedule here. Most of the events are on the 17th – 19th, and some (those on the Saturday) are women / trans only.

Topics include Self defense, massage, women & the middle east, home schooling, poetry, polyamoury and bike maintenance.

Website here.

We’ll be out and about at the Don’t DiY Alone event this weekend. Come get your seditious literature from our stall at the Zine-o-rama on Saturday & Sunday, upstairs at the Forest Cafe, learn how to fix your bike and learn about getting involved with the IWW to help you & your co-workers get your boss off your back (4-6pm on Saturday).

There’s more going on than I can cover here. See the event’s website for more.