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creating pop-up political art spaces to raise awareness and explore issues facing women in our late-50s and 60s. Through performance, poetry, clothes, film, workshops and talks 'Older Women Rock!' celebrates older women, challenges our invisibility, unites us across our differences and subverts assumptions and prejudices about us.

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March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 by leahthorn

‘older women rock!’: the catwalk

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Nineteen older women rocked the catwalk as part of a day symposium ‘Beneath The Mask: Artists, Archives and A/Gender’ in the Claude Cahun exhibition at the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

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March 29, 2017May 21, 2017 by leahthorn

Tammy Whynot’s YouTube channel

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Maiuko PSA

We made a short Public Service Announcement film with Tammy Whynot yesterday for her YouTube channel, using one of my ‘Older Women’s Rock!’ poems about the way the beauty industry impacts older women. An amazing day. Photos of Maiuko, Anita and Ebun.

The film should be out by the end of April ’17

March 6, 2017March 29, 2017 by leahthorn

‘older women rock!’ goes global…

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Here’s an interview on the BBC World Service ‘World Update’ programme about ‘Older Women Rock!’ for International Women’s Day –

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04w6965

March 3, 2017March 3, 2017 by leahthorn

amazing feedback…

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img_1126This precise and perceptive review of ‘Older Women Rock!’ by Michael Ohajuru makes me very happy-

http://assistedreadymade.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/leah-thorn-older-women-rock.html

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