On 8 March 2017, in conjunction with the nationwide Strike4Repeal, the Feminist society organised a demonstration whereby they entered Maynooth University lecture halls and asked people to join them on strike. They made noise in halls and were generally disruptive to garner atten
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Members of the Maynooth Feminist Society during an impromptu demonstration on the green outside the John Hume Building on the Maynooth Campus in reaction to the defeat of a bill brought to the Dáil in October 2016 to try and widen access to abortion under the 2013 Protection of L
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Katelyn Hanna and Emma Gallagher, members of the Feminist Society, dress up as ‘Repeal Witches’ for a Halloween event in the Maynooth Students Union in 2016. They wore their Repeal sweater and had a cauldron full of bras to play on the ‘bra burning’ feminist stereotype. Emma also
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Poster for Repeal Week 2.0, a collaboration between Maynooth Feminist Society and Pro-Choice society (which had been set up a month prior). In October 2017, it was decided to do another Repeal Week as it was a new school year with new students to inform and engage.
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Repeal Week poster. Repeal Week was a massive collaborative event, organised by the Feminist Society with the purpose of informing, engaging and motivating students to join the campaign to repeal the 8th amendment and/or become informed on the topic. March 2017.
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