To mark International Women’s Day 2025 we’d like to introduce Marilyn Cuffy, and the archive she donated to us. We feature Marilyn not only becaus...
Book Review: The Celox and the Clot by Hafsah Aneela Bashir
‘My life is my own’ - Brown Bodies The Celox and the Clot delves deep into South Asian culture exploring sensitive themes of war, family, and the...
Book review – Homegoing
‘Homegoing’ is the debut novel of Yaa Gyasi, a Ghanian-American author....The novel showcases the complex experiences of seven generations, coveri...
Book review – She Wrote Her Own Eulogy
In ‘She Wrote Her Own Eulogy’, May reflects on the stories gathered from her mother, family, and peers with the perspective of people who migrated...
‘The language may be different but the feelings we share as women survivors are mutual.’ – Safety4Sisters Writing Group
The This Is We anthology is a manifesto for migrant women speaking their truth to power, sharing experiences of gender-based violence, migration, raci...
Women’s Activism in Our Archives
Even a quick glance at our collections shows that women’s stories form a significant proportion of the material. The content of these collections be...
International Women’s Day 2022 – AIU Reading List!
At the moment, we’re developing and updating the AIU Library collections, going through each section book by book to see what we have, and to en...
Be yourself, your authentic self
We talked with Shirley May, our Poet in Residence, about her new poem ‘They Came With Backbone‘, written for International Women’s D...
They Came With Backbone – a poem for International Women’s Day
Our new poet in residence, Shirley May, has written this poem for International Women’s Day, inspired by some of the women whose stories are fou...