International Women’s Day 2022
‘THIS IS WE’: SAFETY4SISTERS WRITING GROUP BOOK LAUNCH
Saturday 5th March 2022 1.30-4.30pm
in; the event space at Manchester Central Library, Saint Peter's Square, Manchester, England, M2 5PD
Safety4Sisters is a feminist and anti-racist women’s organisation working to uphold the human rights of migrant women subject to gender-based violence and immigration control/with no recourse to public funds. Between the end of 2020 to Autumn 2021 and under the harshest of pandemic conditions, women from the Safety4Sisters group programme alongside writer Amber Lone and Safety4Sisters Group Coordinator Sandhya Sharma came together to form the migrant women’s writing project. In a society where their experiences are bureaucratised and disbelieved by a bleak immigration system and where degrading, inhumane language pours from anti-migrant narratives, these survivors joined to engage with, re-imagine and explore writing for themselves and each other.
This Is We is a testimony to the conviction of migrant women to tell their stories in their own words. As Black and minoritised survivors their lives have been disrupted and shaped by migration, gender-based violence, racism, and the hostile environment. They speak of journeys navigating a brutal and cruel terrain but also of resilience, hope, enjoyment, sisterhood, and a deep yearning for better futures. This International Women’s Day come join the Safety4Sisters writing group in partnership with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Centre to celebrate the launch of their collection.
Please book here; https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-we-safety4sisters-writing-group-book-launch-tickets-262027018867
Please note that the Central Library is accessible with a ramped entrance and there are lifts to the event space.