Comments on: Event: 20 years of Women Against Fundamentalism

By: persephone

persephone — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:47:51 +0000

A shame I cannot go to this. If some of it is video'ed suggest PP put it on here?

By: John Relation

John Relation — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:38 +0000

Pickled Politics » Event: 20 years of Women Against Fundamentalism http://bit.ly/4ErWHy

By: pickles

pickles — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:16:16 +0000

Blog post:: Event: 20 years of Women Against Fundamentalism http://bit.ly/4jjPqR

By: Fojee Punjabi

Fojee Punjabi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:05:59 +0000

Should be good but I beg to ask how we're going to deal with the fundamentalist feminist nut-jobs!

I jest!

Please don't hurt me, ladies

By: Halima

Halima — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:54:31 +0000

Sunny

Thanks for linking this event.

I wondered what had happened to this amazing movement. I think I must've been about 18, maybe younger, when my friends Georgie Wemyss and Clare Ramsaran (two remarkable young women getting to grips with the unfolding East London anti-racist scene at the time) introduced me to the Tower Hamlet's launch meeting of Women Against Fundamentalism – and then it was a movement against the rise of the BNP and Derek Beacon on the Isle of Dogs, as well as religious fundamentalism. Madeline Bunting attended this meeting in Bethnal Green to cover what appeared to be the emergence of an important grassroots coalition. The movement stood for all fundamentalisms. Both Wemyss and Ramsaran have been intimately connected to the women's moments in East London and the UK more widely, and I'll never forget my introduction to feminist politics from them. Though I did wonder why people like Tariq Modood and so on when on to criticise Women Against Fundamentalism. Yes, their starting point is the ISM that works against women but I didnâ€™t think this was a particularly controversial point…