We're taking the Winter Solstice as a chance for reflection with poet Sarah Lasoye and the Sheffield Feminist Archive.
Join us for a cosy evening in the shop to explore and write our own poetry, imagining a future liberated society, and thinking about which things will have endured, how this might have happened, how they would be understood, in order to help us better name our current conditions and refuse the things that no longer serve us.
It'll be a lovely opportunity to pause and take some time for creativity amidst the hustle and bustle in the run up to the festive season.
Sheffield Feminist Archive is a community archive project, working with Sheffield City Archives to ensure that Sheffield’s feminist past and present is documented, preserved and made accessible to all.
SFA aims to create a safe and welcoming space for Sheffield feminists to collaborate, organise, and platform the history of women in the Steel City. Our feminism is inclusive of all genders, and those who wish to participate in documenting histories centring experiences of womanhood.
Sarah Lasoye is a poet and writer from London, based in Sheffield. She is an alumna of the Barbican Young Poets, Octavia Poetry Collective, and Apples and Snakes' Poetry in Performance programmes. She was longlisted for the Jerwood Poetry Fellowship 2021, and her work has been featured in Porridge Magazine, Bath Magg, The New Statesman & Poetry London. Her debut chapbook, FOVEA / AGES AGO was published by Hajar Press in 2021. Alongside writing, she works as a Peace and Human Security campaigner at Medact.