16 Days - Workshop: We Sinful Women

Join Anjum Malik, Manchester’s City Poet Laureate and senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University for a workshop exploring the iconic 1980s contemporary Urdu feminist poetry collection, We Sinful Women, translated and edited by Rukhsana Ahmed.

We will examine the poetry, its languages, Urdu, and English, how it portrays the sexism enshrined in the poets’ lives in Pakistan back then and how it relates to our everyday lives now. There will be discussion, reading and creative writing.

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.