PhD | 2021 | Glasgow School of Art
‘Please Say More’: mediating conflict through letter-writing in British second wave feminist periodicals, 1970-1990
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Supervised by Prof. Susannah Thompson, Dr. Marianne Greated, Dr. Deborah Jackson

MPub | 2018 | Simon Fraser University
Counterpublics Revisited: a case study of the Vancouver Women’s Library
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Supervised by Associate Professor Dr. John Maxwell

BA | 2016 | University of British Columbia
Philosophy Major

BFA | 2015 | Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Visual Arts Major

Complicated Sisterhood: Negotiating Socialist Feminism in the Second Wave Periodicals Red Rag and Scarlet Women
University College London | Women’s Liberation SIG | 2021

Networks of Conflict and Liberation: What Second Wave Feminist Periodicals Can Tell Us About Woman-Controlled Communication Infrastructures
University of Oxford | Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series | 2021

The Women in Print Movement: A Brief History of Feminist Publishers and Political Women’s Presses During the 1970s and 1980s
Glasgow School of Art | MLitt Art Writing | 2021

Books, Periodicals and Women’s Archives: A Brief History of Second Wave Feminist Print Culture
Glasgow School of Art | Paint & Printmaking lecture series | 2021

Feminist Sci-Fi Drawing Workshop for East London Rape Crisis Centre
The Nia Project | Young Women & Girls Feminist Funday | 2022

Dear Sister: Mediating Feminist Conflict Before the Internet
FUTURESS | Feminist Lecture Series | 2022
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Difficult Sisterhood: Mediating Feminist Conflict Through Letter-Writing
Leipzig University | Feminism is a Battlefield | 2022

Women’s Studies Online: Workshop Wednesdays | Facilitated by Dr. Cherry Smiley | 2020
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• Second Wave Women’s Presses and Reading Counterpublics
• How Second Wave Feminists Created Women’s Networks Before the Internet
• Mediating Conflict in Second Wave Periodicals: Plurality of Opinion and Woman-Controlled Communication
• Women’s Archives: Archiving Our Herstory Because Nobody Else Will

A Space to Debate Socialist Feminism: Mediating Conflict Through Serialised Letter-Writing in Second Wave Feminist Periodicals
Polytechnic of Turin, Italy | Communication, Capitalism and Critique: Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century | 2022

Women’s Webs: Second Wave Periodicals as Feminist Networks
University of Amsterdam | The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing | 2022

The Vancouver Women’s Library and Other Canadian Women’s Archives
Women’s Liberation 50th Anniversary Celebration | Special Meeting of the Feminist Libraries and Archives Network | 2020

Behind the Veil: Mapping Feminist Periodicals, 1970-1990
University of Glasgow | Art Libraries Society 50th Anniversary Conference | 2019

Second Wave Feminist Periodicals as Sites of Sisterhood and Conflict
FiLiA Bradford | Feminist Control Over the Means of Production Panel | 2019

Dear Sisters: The Role of Letters in British Second Wave Feminist Periodicals
University of Reading | Women in Publishing Conference | 2019

Unravelling Feminist Periodicals
Royal College of Art | National Association of Fine Art Education Conference | 2019

Feminist Publications in Movement: Developing a Model for a Feminist Publishing Circuit
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing | Munich | 2021
Roundtable with Gail Chester, Wangui Wa Goro and Magda Oldziejewska

Women’s History in Times of Crises
FiLiA Portsmouth | Conversation | 2021
• Co-presented with Dr. Natalya Vince
• Launch of co-produced podcast “Making Feminist History Visible: An International Conversation About Women’s Archives and Records”

The Political Participation of Young Migrant Women in the Pursuit of Climate Justice
COP26 | Glasgow | 2021
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Facilitator of a panel of young migrant women on the topic of climate change and young feminist leadership

Networks of Conflict and Mediation: Negotiating Socialist Feminism in the Second Wave Periodicals Red Rag and Scarlet Women
The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2000 | In press

‘Please Say More’: Mediating Conflict Through Letter-Writing in British Second Wave Feminist Periodicals, 1970-1990
PhD Thesis | Being prepared for publication | Read Here

Mapping Second Wave Feminist Periodicals: Networks of Conflict and Counterpublics, 1970–1990
Art Libraries Journal | 45(3), 106-113 | Read Here

Frauenkultur Archive
Founder | 2020
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The Vancouver Women’s Library
Co-founder | 2017

FUTURESS
”Please Say More” | 2022
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
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Making Feminist History Visible: Women’s Archives and Records
FiLiA Podcast | 2022
An international and intergenerational conversation about women’s archives and records in collaboration with Dr. Natalya Vince
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Tricky BBC Podcast
Is TERF a Slur? | 2021
A discussion about the acronym TERF with three other panellists for BBC Scotland
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European Network of Migrant Women
Typeset and Design | Info Sheet on Sexual Exploitation | 2022

UN Women
Head Illustrator | Youth Journey to Generation Equality Forum | 2020

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Live Illustrator | Gender and Energy Seminar Series | 2020

European Network of Migrant Women
Typeset and Design | Best Practice Principles of Assistance to Migrant Female Victims of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation | 2020

UN Global Compact
Live Illustrator | How Businesses Can support Women During Covid-19 in Africa | 2020

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