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Oxford International Women's Festival
Some events taking place at OIWF that coincides with IWD.
Freedom from Torture – Women
Survivors Write to Life
Saturday 7 March 12:00-2:00pm
Ruskin College, Dunstan Road, Oxford OX3
9BZ
Jade Amoli-Jackson (Ugandan poet) and
Soraya Mohammadi (Iranian writer of prose
and poetry), members of Freedom from
Torture’s Write to Life group, will read from
their work, about leaving their home countries
and their experience as refugees seeking asylum
here.
Contestations around Female Genital
Mutilation in the UK and Elsewhere
Saturday 7 and Thursday 12 March 2:00pm-
5:00pm
Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Norham
Gardens, Oxford OX2 6QA
7 March – Roundtables and presentations by
well-known activists/academics in the field of
FGM
12 March – Roundtable, film and exhibition
In the UK and abroad, debates abound around
the practice of Female Genital Mutilation.
This thought-provoking event will provide
space for nuanced debates about FGM
featuring the expertise of Afrocentric and
black feminist analyses.
Oxford Circle Author Talk – Victoria
Hislop
Tuesday 10 March 7:00pm-no later than
9:00pm
Blackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad St, Oxford
OX1 3BQ
Victoria Hislop will be speaking to support
the work of Oxfam and the Oxford Circle, an
inspiring group of women based in Oxford –
the birthplace of Oxfam – who share the same
ambition: to support Oxfam’s work with poor
and vulnerable women around the world.
Loads more at :
oxfordinternationalwomensfestival.co.uk
For greater awarness
of women's equality
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