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Fight the patriarchy this IWD 💪

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📌WOW: Women of the World Festival

Billed as ‘the world’s biggest, most comprehensive festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people’, activists, musicians, comedians, writers and other distinguished speakers come together for conversations, workshops and performances

📌The Camera Is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers

This film season spotlights Britain’s pioneering female documentary makers. It features 10 new film restorations from the BFI National Archive, including works by Ruby and Marion Grierson, Evelyn Spice and Muriel Box

📌SheSays: Breaking into the Industry

If you like the idea of a job in the creative industries, this two-hour event could be for you. Joyce Kremer and Melissa Wong will be joined by illustrator Erin Aniker and social media creative Natalie Narh for a panel and workshop

📌International Women’s Day at The National Gallery

Highlights include a forum exploring how women artists have interacted with the national collection, and a lecture examining the role played by art historian Anna Jameson in the reception of Raphael's work in the 19th century

📌Dear Black Women x CURLYTREATS Festival

This one-day festival features curated panel talks, interactive workshops and solution-oriented seminars, all dedicated to the intersecting identities of Black women. On-site, you’ll find a variety of wellness and business-based events

📌Stand with Hope Exhibition

Drop into the UCL Student Centre to see a lifesize Lego suffragette made from 32,327 bricks. She was originally built in 2018 and put on display in the House of Commons to mark 100 years since some (but not all) women gained the right to vote

📌Working Women of the East End Walking Tour

East End tours often focus on Jack the Ripper, but this one flips the switch by giving a voice to the women whose lives he claimed. Along the way, you’ll learn about East End suffragettes including Mary Wollstonecraft and Eleanor Marx

📌Orbit at Ridley Road Market Bar

Ridley Road Market Bar, the female-run nightspot and cultural venue in Dalston will host free weekly events you can attend virtually or IRL. Look out for live music, DJ sets and visual art pieces and an International Women’s Day closing party

📌Mary Anne Hobbs Presents: All Queens at Fabric

Mary Anne Hobbs is throwing a special party at Fabric with an all-female lineup and all-female staff. The stellar bill includes Courtesy x Laurel Halo, AFRODEUTCHE, Elkka, Jamz Supernova, Jossy Mitsu, Nia Archives and Taahliah

📌Who Owns the City?

This panel event will explore how gendered urban design can create inequalities of access in cities like London. Think public spaces that exclude mothers, toilets that presume a limited number of body types, and byways that prioritise drivers above others

📌International Women’s Day Gala: Happening (L'evenement)

Screening at the Barbican, this powerful, timely and urgent film follows Anne, a French student in the early 1960s who becomes pregnant. Abortion is illegal in France at the time, leading to a seismic life dilemma for her