Gender Equality 40 Years On!

In episode 3 of the series, oral historian Dr Siobhán Stevenson meets Surinder & Karen, two women who work to achieve equality, diversity and inclusion whilst acknowledging the role of intersectional identities. In part one of this episode, they talk about their early lives and the impact of family dynamics on their work. They discuss the Race Relations Unit and its relationship with the Women...

In episode five of the series, oral historian Dr Siobhán Stevenson meets Surinder Punn and Dr. Karen Patel, two women who work to achieve equality, diversity and inclusion whilst acknowledging the role of intersectional identities. In part one of this episode, they talk about their early lives and the impact of family dynamics on their work. They discuss the Race Relations Unit and its relationshi...

In this episode oral historian Dr Siobhán Stevenson meets Emma & Sue, both of whom were key to the design and co-ordination of the Women’s Festival and The Women’s Directory while working for Birmingham City Council’s Women’s Unit. We hear about their early lives, the women who influenced them, and their work with the women’s unit. They discuss how intersectional identities remained hidden in...

In episode three of the series, oral historian Dr Siobhán Stevenson meets Emma Woolf MBE and Sue Gorbing, both of whom were key to the design and co-ordination of the Women’s Festival and The Women’s Directory while working for Birmingham City Council’s Women’s Unit. We hear about their early lives, the women who influenced them, and their work with the women’s unit. They discuss how intersectiona...

In this episode oral historian Dr Siobhán Stevenson meets Ming & Mo to discuss their lives using art and photography. Ming & Mo discuss childhood experiences and influences, their journeys into art, the landscape for women, women’s movements in the 1980s and how women organised and connected using art and cultural production to represent themselves on their own terms. In part 2 of this epi...

In episode one of the podcast, oral historian Dr Siobhán Stevenson meets Ming de Nasty & Mo White to discuss their lives using art and photography. In part 1 of this podcast Ming & Mo discuss childhood experiences and influences, their journeys into art, the landscape for women and women’s movements in the 1980s and how women organised and connected using art and cultural production to rep...