While political blackness seems to be making quite a comeback, this resurgence has also met with frustration and ambivalence. This paper aims to make sense of why this mobilising concept is accepted in some contemporary black feminist circles and outright rejected in others. It unpicks the diasporic dimensions of political blackness, reflecting on the issues that converged to foreground ‘black’ as the basis for mobilising women of African and Asian decent to engage in collective activism.

Young women remain more likely to be on low pay, job insecurity has increased, debt levels have risen and young women’s mental health concerns are skyrocketing.

Our 2018 annual survey, It's (still) a Rich Man's World, once again shows that young women remain more likely than young men to be
affected by job insecurity, money worries and debt. 

Here is the full text of the CEDAW (Convention for the Elmination of Discrimination against Women and Girls) Shadow report put together by the Women's Resource Centre 

The Women's Resource Centre has prepared a case study featuring issues facing rural women in the NOrth East, as part of its work to highlight issues to be addressed by the UK report to CEDAW, the Committee for Elimination of Discrimination against Women and Girls. Click here for more information aboit CEDAW.