‘World-first’ comic book about Mary Wollstonecraft’s life to be given out to primary schools
Book to be accompanied by six-week lesson plan, thanks to project involving Newington Green Meeting House
Feminism
Follow in the footsteps of Mary Wollstonecraft around Newington Green with locally made app
Enjoy a slice of Hackney history by taking a guided walk, virtually or physically, to the old haunts of the ‘foremother of feminism’
Campaigners announce winning design for Mary Wollstonecraft statue
Artist and ‘modern legend’ Maggi Hambling chosen to create world’s first memorial to pioneering feminist on Newington Green
Women’s Equality Party ‘very proud’ of election results after first ever Hackney candidate
Party chiefs praise Harini Iyengar who ran for mayor and Dalston councillor
Making Her Mark: new exhibition shows that women’s activism in Hackney didn’t end after 1918
The stories of Hackney’s female activists over the past century are being celebrated at Hackney Museum – plus, a chance to nominate your own inspirational local women
Hackney’s older women are the emerging artists you need to be looking out for in 2018
Maisie Linford met with one of the founders of GRACE, ahead of their new residency, for a chat about fighting the “narrow stereotypes” of aging women using art and performance – including an impromptu strip-off
Fringe! Queer Film Fest: pushing boundaries and celebrating queer history
We check out a screening of The Misandrists at the film festival, which is on across East London until Sunday
Whistle to blow on Romance FC’s women’s five-a-side tournament in Shoreditch this Saturday
The all-female football collective will take on 11 other teams from the South East and France for charity in the 2017 edition of Playing For Kicks
London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow
LFFF is based, as in previous years, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, but the full programme includes many other talks, workshops, and is capped by a screening of Iranian film The Sealed Soil
Letter – “stark inequalities” remain this International Women’s Day
London Assembly Member Jennette Arnold OBE writes to the Citizen with some troubling statistics and her thoughts on relationship education
How to Date a Feminist, Arcola, review: ‘there was proper laughter, and lots of it’
Unconventional romantic comedy attempts to deconstruct the patriarchy, one laugh at a time
Guerrilla Girl power! Feminist ‘masked avengers’ come to East London to take on art world
The political art collective has been fighting prejudice in the art world for 30 years, with a major new exhibition of their work now open at the Whitechapel Gallery
Mother and disabled child inappropriately housed after fleeing domestic violence, council admits
Hackney woman, who declined to be named, had to carry her wheelchair-using child up stairs to reach bathroom
Sheer Height redress the gender balance with new Arcola show
Fed up with the state of theatre for women, two friends founded their own company placing female characters centre stage
Feminism wins place on A-Level politics syllabus
Students could now study key figures of borough’s radical past
How a video camera became a weapon for feminists
The Sony Portapak gave ordinary artists the ability to use video for the first time and a new exhibition shows how it became a potent tool for French feminist groups of the 1970s