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Safe Gigs For Women > Blog > Tracey blogs
09
Mar
We’re Not Groupies! – It’s Time To Take Women In Music Seriously

The Safe Gigs for Women team emerged from December, very tired, disheveled but feeling positive after four weeks working around the country, speaking to gig goers at dates with The Levellers, Sean McGowan and Frank Turner, giving us amazing access to be able to talk directly to gig goers, and planning for what we do […]

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05
Sep
BoomTown Fair 2016 Welcomes Safe Gigs Guidelines

With festival season well under way, I got an email from my friends at the White Ribbon Music Project inviting me to along to help them launch new guidelines at BoomTown Fair. These guidelines would concentrate on how festivals and gigs can be made safer for women. Being the founder of Safe Gigs for Women, […]

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27
May
You Won’t Part Me From My Make Up… But Why Does That Mean We Should Tolerate Sexual Harassment Any Longer?

Last Saturday, Grace Dent caused a bit of a stir on my Twitter timeline with this article. At first, I passed it off as clickbait. But on reflection, after reading the article again, I concluded that the point that Dent is very clumsily making is that feminism has bigger battles to fight. And I get […]

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21
Dec
This is My Culture

After the unfortunate harassment incident that led me to create Safe Gigs for Women, I was acutely aware that the band I had gone to see, Manic Street Preachers, would not have condoned such behaviour, so why did someone at one of their shows think this was appropriate? With its focus on music, it makes […]

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28
Aug
Safe Gigs for Women – How Do We Get There?

Finally fed up with over 15 years of harassment at gigs, I hit breaking point. But it seems I was not alone. Sharing my experiences with other music fans – woman after woman has expressed their awful experiences of harassment at gigs. In the time between my last blog and this one, there have been […]

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06
Aug
Safer Gigs for Women, Who Would Disagree?

I have been going to gigs for about 20 years now and one band in particular has my love like no other. I’ve seen the Manic Street Preachers countless times. Dressed in animal print and drenched in glitter, I’ve traveled far and wide, and patiently the hours of queuing to get to the barrier. Obsessed? […]

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