Tonight, at 6pm, in Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin, Women to Blame – a multimedia history of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution – will be launched by Marie McMahon and Maura Molloy.
It will run until November 17.
Maura Molloy says:
“Gathering the history of the 8th Amendment into one room is no mean feat. Women to Blame allows those of us involved in the 1970s to look back and view our progress. It gives more recent choice activists an opportunity to view their own struggle as a continuation of second wave feminism in the 1970s. Tonight, I look forward to remembering and celebrating 40 years of Irish women’s struggle, with both veteran and young feminists who have taken up the torch.”
Exhibition organiser, Therese Caherty says:
“We see Women to Blame as an act of retrieval, not just of bags of memorabilia given to us by activists throughout the decades, but also of our history. The story of the struggle for contraception and abortion is fragmented and scattered. Our exhibition is a first attempt to bring that story in from the margins, make it whole and make it mainstream.”
Women to blame exhibition (Filmbase)
Abortion on demand now!
Wish them well , might try pop in and see it
who says men don’t struggle with contraception? trying to get the foil wrapper of a jonny with slippy hands is just a nightmare..
Put the KY on after the rubber…. stops your fingers slipping.
You’re welcome.
Easy for us to mock this standing as we do in the 21st century. It would possibly have been easier to buy weapons-grade plutonium in 1970s Ireland, than to buy a condom or a tube of lubricant.
Yup, I have it on record that cling film was used back in the day.
Dunno if it was any good though…. well, I’m here ain’t I :)
now i have visions of women travelling by train up to the north to buy weapons grade plutonium..
So, you think that didn’t really happen? #notjustariverinegypt