[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-not-a-feminist-tribe":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Last night I went along to the Royal Festival Hall to meet lot of women that the fabulous \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LauraDockrill\">Laura Dockrill\u003C/a> had invited. She thought we should all get together and talk hardcore business and swap cards, that sort of thing. I didn't actually have any business cards printed up, but I had some sweets bags and stickers and stuff, so I went trotting along with my bag of little packets.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/card_bag_zpsba36c530-15f2de0587.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI hardly knew anyone there, but I'd talked with a few of the people on Twitter and was super-chuffed when I met \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Coxxy\">@Coxxy\u003C/a> - whose real name is \u003Cb>Sarah Yewman\u003C/b> - who had made a little mini-me with her six-year-old daughter! Her daughter was very precise with what she wanted: my polka-dot boots from the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/567259.html\">Hay Festival\u003C/a>, tortoise-shell specs, Superkid green outfit and a netted hat. Excellent.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mini_me_coxxy_zpsad768358-918edadf0d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was hit fairly instantly with the realisation that I would come home with this big stack of cards and have NO IDEA who any of these people were. I have the worst memory of anyone I know (which is partly the reason I blog). We did this sort of speed dating thing, chatting for three minutes, then swapping when someone hit a gong. So I tried to take a photo of the people I talked with, holding their card.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/not_a_feminist_tribe_zpsae737f18-66e2fbe7aa.jpg\">\\r\nTop row from left: \u003Ca href=\"http://endoskeleton.co.uk\">Bimpe Alliu\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://truestoriesblog.wordpress.com\">Louise Haworth\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://hannahruthmae.com\">Hannah Hall\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://lillylovelett.com\">Rosa Doherty\u003C/a>; \\r\nSecond row: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hollywalkermusic.com\">Holly Walker\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmagreany\">Gemma Greany\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JadeAnouka\">Jade Anouka\u003C/a>; \\r\nThird row: \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GeorgieRogers\">Georgie Rogers\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://edagiray.com/\">Eda Giray\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://rosiebeard.tumblr.com/\">Rosie Beard\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click for more under the cut!-->\\r\nPresenting the lovely planning team! Here's telly Production Manager \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ShannaBay\">Shanna Baynard\u003C/a>, author of the \u003Ci>Darcy Burdock\u003C/i> books \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LauraDockrill\">Laura Dockrill\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TamsinAce\">Tamsin Ace\u003C/a>, who's Performance & Dance Programmer at the Southbank Centre. It was great meeting Shanna, who'd done most of the e-mailing. I'd met Laura before as a co-curator at the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/489519.html\">Pop Up Festival\u003C/a> and worked with Tamsin at the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/542147.html\">Imagine Festival\u003C/a>. The name they gave the evening (and the TWitter hashtag) was \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23notafeministtribe&src=hash\">#NotAFeministTribe\u003C/a>; and while I'm pretty sure we are all feminists, we weren't ranty or anything, just getting to know each other, and Laura made sure we started by talking about our jobs, not feeling we had to chit-chat about other stuff first. Great idea.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/not_a_feminist_tribe_team_zps56040aac-a2c15ffe48.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOne of the evening's highlights was running into \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sophielording\">Sophie Lording\u003C/a>, who used to run the children's part of the Hay Festival. She's now living in London, works at the BBC and is working her way toward being a radio producer. She'll get there, I have no doubt; the woman is awesome and supremely well-organised. And, of course, glamour shots with totally new people (looking fab, Gemma Greany)! Thanks so much for a great evening, ladies! The team are hoping to make the meetings a regular thing, bringing in new women. Thank you, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/\">Southbank Centre\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.redbull.com/en\">Red Bull\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bareminerals.co.uk/\">Bare Minerals\u003C/a> for sponsoring. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/not_a_feminist_tribe2_zps2ee4699c-0773a3fed4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSpeaking of awesome women, I was reading \u003Ci>The Bookseller\u003C/i> over breakfast and saw another interview with new \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrenslaureate.org.uk/\">Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman\u003C/a>. Great to see she's put in another plug for comics! (Or 'graphic novels', as some people prefer to call them.) I was talking about Malorie to one person during the evening, and she said her son loves comics, but his teacher's always trying to discourage him and make him read other kinds of books. But she's fighting back, to let her son read what he loves. Which is the best way to keep a kid in love with reading, good mum.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/childrens_laureate_blackman_zpse321e7aa-240d32ce12.jpg\">","2013-06-08T11:16:00.000Z","not-a-feminist-tribe",[],"not a feminist tribe",1776628725230]