Launch: The World After Rain by Canisia Lubrin
Join us for a night of poetry for the London launch of The World After Rain,
a landmark work of elegy by award-winning writer and poet Canisia Lubrin.
With readings from Canisia Lubrin, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, So Mayer
and Momtaza Mehri.
a landmark work of elegy by award-winning writer and poet Canisia Lubrin.
With readings from Canisia Lubrin, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, So Mayer
and Momtaza Mehri.
Reference Point, London
21 May 2026, 19:00
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The World After Rain is a mesmerising elegy for the poet’s mother, interwoven across public...
Translating Hélène Cixous and Angst: Sophie Lewis, Beverley Bie Brahic and Kristen Vida Alfaro in conversation
A conversation around translation as écriture féminine and the complexities of capturing Hélène Cixous's unique style.
Burley Fisher Books, London
20 May 2026, 18:30
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In this event, translator Sophie Lewis joins poet and translator Beverley Bie Brahic to explore translating Hélène Cixous, the iconic French writer and theorist, and feminist poetics in translation. Chaired...
Angst by Hélène Cixous: Sophie Lewis and Jamieson Webster in conversation
Beyond Freud’s angst, what is angst in Cixous’s hands?
Freud Museum, Online
30 April 2026, 18:00
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Join translator Sophie Lewis and acclaimed psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster for an online conversation hosted by the Freud Museum London to celebrate the publication of Angst by Hélène Cixous in a new translation by Sophie Lewis.
In this online talk there will...
Cixous’s Angst and Cahun’s Confessions: A Tricky Translation Workshop
Join translators Sophie Lewis and Susan de Muth for an exploration of the challenges of translating experimental work.
Torriano Meeting House, London
22 February 2026, 15:00
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Sophie Lewis is a prize-winning translator from French and Portuguese. Her new translation of Angst by Hélène Cixous will be published by Silver Press in March 2026.
Susan de Muth is the translator of Claude Cahun’s...
Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear
The Chiron Choir, Sara Ahmed, Hannah Catherine Jones, Holly Pester join editors Irene Revell and Sarah Shin for poetry, performance and a panel discussion
Southbank Centre, London
7 November 2024, 19:45
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‘I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind’, wrote composer Pauline Oliveros in 1973. ‘Sound...
After Sex on Screen
ICA, London
1 December 2023, 18:30
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Queer feminist film curation collective Club Des Femmes present a programme of short films on abortion and bodily autonomy in conversation with Silver Press’ new reproductive freedoms anthology After Sex. Working backwards – as reproductive justice access appears to be – from an artist’s film about the Repeal the 8th processions in Republic of Ireland in 2018 to illegal abortions in Australia in the 1930s, the programme of seven...
After Sex: Launch
ICA, London
24 November 2023, 19:00
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Who decides what happens after sex? What use is fair pay if childbearing and child-rearing prevents you from working? What might reproductive freedom, healthcare, childcare and sexual liberation look like in the future?
The last decade has seen an insidious rise in the criminalisation of abortions and the diminishing of bodily autonomy across the world, culminating in...
Edna Bonhomme, Tracy Fuad and Alice Spawls: After Sex
Diffrakt Centre for Theoretical Periphery, Berlin
26 November 2023, 7.30 pm
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Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. Political progress in Ireland has been countered by regressive action in the US. After Sex provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class...
Free to Decide: Reproductive Rights for All
12 November 2023, 12:30 – 13:30
Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2023
Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2023
Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
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Featured speakers: Kirsty Logan, Alice Spawls, Sian Norris.
To be able to experience true reproductive rights, we must have the freedom to say yes as well as no to parenthood. Yet patriarchy, racism and heteronormativity seek to force some into the role, and others out of it, through restricted abortion rights, denied fertility health care and myriad kinds of oppression...
Edna Bonhomme, Nell Dunn and Alice Spawls: After Sex
LRB Bookshop, London
16 November 2023
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Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. Political progress in Ireland has been countered by regressive action in the US. Join Edna Bonhomme and Alice Spawls, co-editors of the reproductive justice anthology After Sex, to launch the book in conversation with writer Nell Dunn.
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