Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week.

Until 5 April: International Anti-Street Harassment Week

Catcalls, sexist comments, flashing, groping, stalking, and assault in public spaces…. Gender-based street harassment impacts all women and many men, especially in the LGBQT community, worldwide. It makes us feel less safe, it restricts where we go. IT MUST END.

Join rallies, marches, and workshops, tweet chats, wheat pastings and chalkwalks going on around the world to bring attention to this problem and engage our communities in solutions.

Together, we can stop street harassment.

Edinburgh:

2 April: ‘Welfare Reform’ and women’s equality at Committee Room 3, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, from 6pm.

Engender, Scottish Women’s Aid, Close the Gap and Scottish Refugee Council invite you to join us for a discussion of our joint position paper on the gender inequality of ‘welfare reform’.

‘Welfare reform’ directly penalises women. Of cuts totalling £14.9 billion since 2010, 74 per cent has been taken from women’s incomes.

What can the Scottish government do to address this gender impact in its response to ‘welfare reform’?

The evening is kindly hosted by Jayne Baxter MSP.

This event is free, but booking is required.

Glasgow:

5 April: UK Feminista’s Scotland Activist Training at The Albany Learning and Conference Centre, 44 Ashley Street, Glasgow, from 10am.

Get together with feminist activists from across Scotland to share successes, learn new skills and find solidarity!

This event is perfect for anyone organising for a world without sexism, from seasoned campaigners to those looking for confidence to get started. It’s a great opportunity for those involved in women’s and feminist groups as well as individuals to learn and share ideas and skills to make change happen.

The event will include practical workshops on doing activism as well as open spaces for people to share skills and discuss opportunities for working together on action for gender equality.

Skills workshops: Hitting the Headlines – Claire Black, Journalist; Being what we see: Building an Intersectional Movement – Talat Yaqoob, Community Organiser and campaigner; Feminism for educators: challenging patriarchy in schools, colleges and youth clubs – Liz Ely, Zero Tolerance; Getting Mobilised: How to Build Our Movement - Talat Yaqoob, Community Organiser and campaigner; Piling on the pressure: How to influence local government - Hollaback! Edinburgh.

For the full programme of events and to book your free space for this event, click here.

London:

31 March: Silent Vigil Against the Porn Industry at Trafalgar Square, London WC2N, from 6pm.

Anti Porn London (The London Feminist Network London Anti-Porn Group) will be holding a silent vigil to protest that pornography is violence against women.

All women welcome. Meet up is at Pret a Manger in Trafalgar Square. Please bring placards if you can.

4 April: Beyond the Sheets: Sexualities in the Age of Digital Reproduction at Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, Lewisham Way, London SE14, from 9.30am

The representation of sexuality within culture has become deeply contested. Sexual imagery is ubiquitous in contemporary media, and yet writers often struggle to write convincingly about sex.

The internet has democratised pornography and exotic dancing is the new jazzercise. While many are concerned about the sexualisation of childhood, others lament that adulthood is being neutered.

Within this confused and pressurized atmosphere, writing about sex remains notoriously difficult and is becoming increasingly risky.

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together writers and thinkers for a one-day event that includes keynote speakers, academic papers, discussion panels, performances, and all forms of creative writing.

To book tickets, click here.

Sheffield:

31 March – 4 April: The Red Tent Sheffield at The Red Tent, Gallery Eye, Sheffield Students’ Union, Sheffield.

Sheffield Students’ Union will be hosting the Red Tent! This is a great space for women and those with complex gender identities to relax and celebrate their bodies and menstruation.

Each day’s activities have a theme: Monday: Welcome Day;Tuesday: Ethical and Environmental Day;Wednesday: Physical Health Day; Thursday: Mental Health Day;Friday: Celebration Day.

Wakefield:

1 April: Women Modernists in dOCUMENTA (13) at Hepworth Wakefield, Gallery Walk, Wakefield, from 5pm.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of dOCUMENTA(13) will be in conversation with Professor Griselda Pollock on the theme of women modernists, in dOCUMENTA(13) with reference to Barbara Hepworth.

dOCUMENTA(13) took place at Kassel, Germany, from the 9 June until 16 September 2012 on the theme of Collapse and Recovery. It was the thirteenth edition of the contemporary art exhibition, documenta, which was conceived by German painter Arnold Bode in 1955.

Click here to find out more about documenta amd dOCUMENTA(13).

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds and previously to her role at dOCUMENTA(13), was senior curator of exhibitions at MoMA PS1, chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, co-curator of the first Turin Triennial and artistic director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney in 2008.

Professor Griselda Pollock represented the University of Leeds at dOCUMENTA(13) and is the author of the dOCUMENTA(13) Notebook no.28 on artist Charlotte Salomon.  She is one of the country’s leading cultural theorists and feminist academics and is currently Director of the Centre of Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds.

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