What are you doing this Galentine's Day?

The day before Valentine's has become known as a time to celebrate the women in your life – so why not spend it doing just that with Dear Damsels at Waterstones TCR?

As a platform sharing the words and stories of women, Dear Damsels is getting together on February 13th to host an evening of discussion, readings and performances all around the glorious topic of female friendship.

The evening will include a panel on sharing female experiences and how it can break taboos, as well as readings exploring connection and creativity within female friendship, from writers including 4BROWNGIRLSWHOWRITE and some of our own DD contributors.

So grab your best gal pal (or two) and bring them to our get-together – there’s even going to be cocktails.

Speakers:

Becky Young, ANTI DIET RIOT CLUB: Becky is a freelance event producer and programmer and last year founded the Anti Diet Riot Club: an event series inspiring people to fight back against diet culture, body shaming and fat phobia. As well as a passion for creating safe & liberating spaces for people to connect, she also loves to dance, listen to podcasts in the bath, debate, hula hoop, cook, and travel.

Chloe Laws, FGRLS Club: FGRLS is an online community and content platform founded in early 2017 that focuses on broadening conversations between womxn. We're a feminist site that aims to be as multifaceted as the womxn who read us are, and host an array of amazing writers that have the freedom to explore any topics they're passionate about.

Rebecca Souster, Break the Habit Press: Break the Habit Press is an independent publisher of feminist non-fiction, dedicated to publishing books with a social slant and covering topics that we feel need to be challenged. We want to give a platform to the unheard and the under-represented. Publications include: 100 Women I Know, Period. and This is Us: Black, British and Female

4 Brown Girls Who Write: Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sunnah Khan, and Sheena Patel form poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE. They began their collective performing together across London, and have put their work on the page for the first time with FEM Press. The book explores the spaces we inhabit: the city, the home, our skins, our sexuality, and what it means to navigate these as women of colour.

Sara Sherwood: Sara Sherwood is a writer from Leeds. Her work has been published in all three Dear Damsels annuals and her short story, Likes, was Highly Commended in the 2018 Bridport Prize and was subsequently The Weekend Read on For Books' Sake. Sara also writes about forgotten women of history for The Heroine Collective, is a researcher for the upcoming Greenham Women Everywhere exhibition. She writes a monthly(ish) TinyLetter, Young Adult Affliction, about books and can also be found on Twitter and Instagram at @sarasherwood.

About Dear Damsels

Dear Damsels is an online platform and yearly print publication sharing the words and stories of women. Since setting up online in January 2016, we’ve published over 200 female writers, opened up the conversation on over 35 themes (and counting), hosted three events, and published three print annuals – with the latest DD Annual 2019 now available to buy. Our aim was to create a space where women could come together online, use their voice, and get a resounding response back – that’s why we describe DD as: your words, your stories, and your collective.

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