Below, details of some of the events I have been – or will be – taking part in over the autumn, as part of publication of ‘What Should We Tell Our Daughters?’ ( Unless otherwise stated, this will usually be the title of the session…)
Please come along – and join the discussion…
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Friday 23rd August
6.30pm Greenbelt Festival Venue: Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire
Monday 9th September
‘Finding a public voice’ Key Note Speech at Induction Day: Camden School for Girls, North London.
( above, picture taken with the Camden Sixth Form leadership group – what a team!)
Thurs 19th September
“How to be Female and Awesome.’ 4pm Blenheim Literary Festival with Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman and Polly Morland, author of The Society of Timid Souls -Or How to be Brave (published by Profile).
further details from: http://blenheimpalaceliteraryfestival.com/literature-events-2013/thursday-19/how-to-be-female-and-awesome.
Saturday 21st September – mid afternoon – Brighton
Labour Women’s Conference. Debate with Bonnie Greer and Caroline Criado-Perez on ‘everyday sexism and how to fight it..’ A thousand strong audience here; according to Harriet Harman, who spoke later in the day, this was the largest ever political meeting of women held in this country, certainly in recent times.
( You can just about spot the One Nation logo behind my head!)
Tuesday 24th September
Discussion on BBC Woman’s Hour about the book with Erinn Dhesi.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bds3m
( Erinn and I just before we went into the studio: her first time on national radio, she was amazingly calm!)
Thursday 26th September – Publication Day!
‘Meet the Author’ Interview on the themes of the book with Nick Higham on BBC News 24.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24282455
Saturday 28th September,
Noon, Wigtown Book Festival Venue: County Buildings Wigtown, Newton Stewart Scotland DG8 9JH
Daily Telegraph review of my session. Complete nonsense to suggest any of the men were shrinking in their seats. But hey – you’ve got to add colour to a report don’t you?
Thursday 3rd October 6.30p.m. City Books Event. Brighton and Hove Sixth Form College, Dyke Road, Hove BN3 6EG Further info: 01273 725306
Also on October 3rd:
10 pm. Discussion about the themes of the book on Nightwaves, BBC 3’s arts and ideas programme. The interviewer was Anne McElvoy, who was, as in all my previous encounters with her on radio, in a ‘spatty’ frame of mind. I think she thinks of me as the archetypal progressive lefty comprehensive-education- supporting ‘muesli eating’ feminist whom she needs to challenge at all times.…