16 Days - Reading And Discussion: Dr Kim Moore and Laura Bates

Location: Lowry Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Room 403 / online

Doors open at 7pm for a drinks reception, event starts at 7.30pm

Join Forward Prize-winning poet Dr Kim Moore and feminist writer and activist Laura Bates for an evening of poetry and engaging discussion. They will examine everyday sexism, how we move through a damaged patriarchal society and how we can resist injustice. There will be time for questions at the end. This event will be hosted by Dr Malika Booker.

This event is part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, a series of poetry readings, panels and workshops led by academics in the field. Our events examine how poetry can create transformational social change in partnership with the public and policymakers.

Dr Kim Moore and Laura Bates will be joined by Jade Jeffrey, the Project Manager of the ADViSE Service in partnership with Pankhurst Trust incorporating Manchester Women’s Aid who will present on some of the frontline work taking place. Jade will then also take part in the Q&A.

Dr Kim Moore – Poet, Senior Lecturer, Speaker

Kim Moore is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her first collection The Art of Falling (Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. A hybrid book of lyric essays and poetry Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism was published by Seren in March 2023.

Laura Bates – Activist, Writer, Speaker

Laura is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 250,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in over 20 countries worldwide. She works closely with politicians, police forces, businesses, schools and organisations from the United Nations to the Council of Europe to tackle sexism and sexual violence. She writes regularly for the New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph and others and is author of 9 books including Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System, Not the Women. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded a British Empire Medal for her services to Gender Equality.

Dr Malika Booker – Poet, Playwright, Performer, Senior Lecturer

Dr Malika Booker, a Caribbean British poet is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice for The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023). A lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, co-founder Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective), her collection Pepper Seed was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize. She is published with Poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3 (2017). A Cave Canem Fellow, A Complete Works fellow, inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022).

Jade Jeffrey – Project Manager with Manchester Women’s Aid, Academic and Activist

Jade Jeffrey is the Project Manager of the ADViSE Service in partnership with Pankhurst Trust incorporating Manchester Women’s Aid. The ADViSE Service support patients in a Sexual Health environment who have been impacted by domestic and/or sexual violence and abuse, and act as a specialist training and consultancy service to clinicians across Manchester. Jade’s academic background comprises of research specialising in women’s experiences of Secondary-Victimisation navigating the Criminal Justice System. She is published in Researching Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence: Critical Perspectives for Student-Practitioner Researchers.