Tag: social injustice

• Scum!! The voices of Thriving Women

  

  International Women’s Day is here again, and with that comes the myriad voices of women across the world, shouting out their experiences, their opinions, and their visions for a more equitable future. We’re so proud to showcase the work of the Thriving Women collective again today, with a brand-new collective poem and film-poem called ‘Scum’.…

  Kirsten Luckins

  March 8, 2024

  By our members, Poems, Video

  activism, International Women's Day, IWD2024, lived experience, performance poetry, poetry, poverty, social injustice, spoken word, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, Thrive Teesside, Thriving Women, women

• Truth to Power

  

  As we prepare to continue our partnership with the women of Thrive Teesside charity, writing workshop leader Julie Easley reflects on what we’ve achieved so far… At the time of writing, it is almost a year since I began delivering a series of poetry workshops for Thrive Teesside on behalf of the Tees Women Poets.…

  Kirsten Luckins

  August 11, 2022

  Events

  cost of living crisis, creative writing, Echoes of the Unheard, poetry, poverty, protest poetry, social injustice, Stockton on Tees, Thrive Teesside, Thriving Women, women