Women & Cinema Day, Film@CultureLab, #IWD2017
At the end of February, I resigned from my lecturing post at University of Salford where my job and life had been made impossible largely by two senior women colleagues. In early March, I moved back to Newcastle upon Tyne, a city which has become home since I moved there from Belfast in August 2014. In a later post, I will reflect on my academic experiences and how my fraught relationship with the academy – but not research – has come to an end. For now, I am focusing on recovery and looking onwards. Spending International Women’s Day (8 th March) in a positive, safe and supportive space celebrating women and cinema was an ideal beginning to the healing process. The day was facilitated and hosted by Newcastle University’s Research Centre for Film (full schedule on its website here ). It involved an impressive breadth and diversity of film work and practitioners, sparking discussions on the women working on the periphery of industrial production, and inventive approaches to pres