NOWSA
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The NOWSA (Network Of Women Students Australia) is an Australian feminist student organisation founded on ideals of creating a grassroots, autonomous network concerned with issues that impact women and women students.
Established in 1987, NOWSA provides a platform for women's organising across universities and in the wider community through resource, skill and knowledge sharing both in conference and through web branches of the network.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20220702133020/https://www.nowsa.org/historyofnowsa History of NOWSA]}} NOWSA{{cite news |date=31 August 1987 |title=Womyn on Campus Conference |volume=33 |page=14 |newspaper=Tharunka |issue=10 |location=New South Wales, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228651988 |accessdate=2 October 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}} The network continues to shift, grow and change, but constantly places feminist agenda at the forefront. Women of all ages, sexualities, abilities, and experiences have the opportunity to be involved.
The annual NOWSA conference is organised by a collective of women students and hosted by a different university in Australia each year.
The NOWSA conference usually runs for 5 days, giving voice to women students and allowing them to engage with personal, political, social, and cultural issues that are relevant to women. NOWSA is now an annual conference, held from year to year at different universities, and encourages networks to be developed with women from across Australia.
List of conferences
Worsley Pine, Deborah., 1996, Who’s Space is it Anyway: A Discourse on NOWSA, Thesis, Flinders University Library, Adelaide{{cite web|url=https://msa.monash.edu/about/your-student-reps/womens/dissent/network-women-students-australia-nowsa/|title=The Network Of Women Students Australia (NOWSA)|publisher=Monash Students Association|access-date=1 October 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/nowsa2021/|title=NOWSA 2021|publisher=Facebook|access-date=1 October 2022}}{{cite news|title=Young feminism alive and kicking|work=The Age|date=7 July 1995|page=9|first=Sonia|last=Harford}}
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20030920004905/http://www.nowsa.org/ Official website]}}
- [http://nowsa2012.com/ NOWSA 2012 conference website]
- [http://www.unistudent.com.au/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=289:nowsa&catid=34:women-students&Itemid=56 National Union of Students NOWSA post 2010]
- [http://womenofcolour.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/speech-from-nowsa-2010.html Women of Colour blog speech from NOWSA 2010]
- [http://www.myspace.com/nowsa_2008 NOWSA 2008 Myspace Page]
- [http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/bs98/nowsa.htm International Women's Day broadsheet 1998]
Category:Student organisations in Australia
Category:Feminist organisations in Australia