Last session we turned to cynicism and black humour to poke fun at the privilege underscoring cultures of mental health and self-care.
It is apt, then, that next month we will be exploring where hopes lies in the current landscape of mental health with a session on queer joy.
If anxious people do not exist within a vacuum - what is the impact of expressing languages of privilege and universality when talking about mental health and self-care?
Flow n Flux #31: Contesting self-care
In our first session after our summer break we aim to contest social norms associated with self-care. We will be exploring how an intersectional feminist perspective can inform our understanding of, and approach towards, mental health.
Flow n Flux are happy to announce we’re back after an eventful summer break. We’ve missed you all and can’t wait to share what we have in store for the coming months.
Stay tuned. New session alert pending 🚨
Is consent good for women?
Delighted to be working as a research assistant on this fast approaching feminist symposium on consent culture (June 17). Just look at that schedule 🤩
Want to join us? Click the link to book your place: https://t.co/Fh8odJYJJH
or could make - to our mornings to improve our days, our weeks, and even our lives.
We hope you can make it, especially as this is our last session before taking our summer break!! We will be back in October 2022.
Artwork from the talented @alaiganuza 🎨
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Do you have a morning routine? Is there anything you do in the mornings just for you? In this session we will discuss the first things we do each day, whether we are a lark or a night owl, and consider whether there are any changes we would like to make -
Calling all volunteers! We are currently looking for some amazing individuals to help out in @CWNNLpool@CWNNCardiff@CWNNLondon@CWNNBrighton 🤩
Head to our website to find your choir: https://t.co/CCgsUrgqaN
Flow n Flux #29 Rereading Femininity in the Media
Thu, 5 May 2022, 19:00 – 21:00
This session focuses on the categories of woman and femininity to consider the ways in which the criteria and rules through which these categories get defined take shape …
📌Intersectionality and the Politics of Difference
This workshop considers the particular importance of Black feminist theories of intersectionality as well as recent reflections on the relationship between the popular usage of the term .. [cont]
[Pictured here: Jayaben Desai, who led the Grunwick strike in 1976 fighting for the rights of south Asian women working in film-processing factories. Desai turned horrendous working conditions into a national solidarity movement.]
International Women’s Day was originally founded in 1911. It was a socialist, anti-racist celebration of migrant women’s fight to escape unsafe and overcrowded working conditions in garment factories. However, this history is erased by the present nature of IWD.