Past event
Date:
8 March 2020
Part of WOW – Women of the World at London’s Southbank Centre, Letters Live made its debut on International Women’s Day 2020 in the tenth anniversary year of the festival.
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Gentlemen, I just don’t belong here
Ursula Le Guin to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
An instrument of joy
Margaret Mead to her sister
We are the gift
Melissa Harris Perry to Richard Mourdock
Don’t let anyone define who you are
Angelique Kidjo to girls of the world
Dear Hollywood
Rose McGowan to Hollywood
Dear Principal
Stephen Callaghan to Principal
DO NOT be so bloody vulnerable
Noel Coward to Marlene Dietrich
Ought women not to be abolished altogether?
Clementine Churchill to The Times
You did not just attack me that night
Ione Wells to her assaulter
Live a life worth living
Julie Yip Williams to her daughters
Mick Jagger and I walked into Studio 54
Bianca Jagger to Financial Times
Have a Happy Period
Wendi Aarons to James Thatcher
I’m amputating you
Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera
Dear Sir
Sarah-Louise Jordan to an admirer
Abortion is a terrifying thing
Italo Calvino to Claudio Magris
Burning in Birmingham