Feminist icons Sue O’Sullivan and Pratibha Parmar will be in conversation with Nazmia Jamal at The Feminist Library as part of the Lesbians Talk Issues Revisited project on Wednesday 30th April 2025. Booking is essential.
Sue O’Sullivan was born in the US and has mostly lived in London since 1963. There from the start of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the early 1970s, she has been involved in the radical, socialist, liberationist, anti-racist parts of feminism ever since. Sue has been part of publishing collectives including Red Rag, Feminist Review, Spare Rib, and Sheba Feminist Publishers. She taught at Holloway prison, worked in HIV/AIDS and remains an active member of the Women in Black’s weekly Vigil for Gaza. Sue is currently working on the HOWL (History of Women’s Liberation) project, soliciting contributions from feminists about their eclectic experiences of the early years of the WLM. (howl-uk.org)
Pratibha Parmar is an award-winning filmmaker whose ground breaking films, including A Place of Rage, Khush and My Name is Andrea, centre marginal stories in bold creative ways. Two of her films, Sari Red and Reframing AIDS, were included in the Women In Revolt exhibition at Tate Britain, currently touring the U.K. Pratibha has been a Visiting Artist at Stanford University and taught film in her capacity as an Associate Professor in the Film Program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She is author, co-author and editor of several books and essays, including several texts foundational to Black feminism in Britain. (kalifilms.com)
Nazmia Jamal is a London based researcher whose project Lesbians Talk Issues Revisited aims to create intergenerational discussion about feminism in Britain using the 1990s pamphlet series, Lesbians Talk Issues, as a focus. Sue O’Sullivan and Pratibha Parmar co-authored the second pamphlet in this series – Lesbians Talk (Safer) Sex (1992) – having previously worked together at Sheba Feminist Publishers. Sheba is the subject of Nazmia’s next research project and this event brings together two of her favourite subjects and two of her favourite big sisters.
For information on how to get to The Feminist Library and accessibility information for the venue, please see https://feministlibrary.co.uk/visit-us/
All ticket proceeds will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestine. For more information please email lesbianstalkissues@gmail.com.