July 2010

Oxford's First Feminist Friday

Friday, 2 July, 2010 - 15:09

Feminist Fridays are events where feminists go into shops and cover up sexist publications on the shelves. Oxford saw its first Feminist Friday on 25 June 2010.

It didn't feel very clandestine... A few of us met at a local coffee shop on 25 June (an independent not a chain), the sun was shining, one of us had paper bags (they're cheap! You can buy them online! It's so easy we wondered why we hadn't got round to it before!) and one had some flipchart marker pens (teachers carry this stuff in their handbags apparently). Sipping our lovely frothy coffees we had fun thinking up...

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