The Women’s Café is a women-centered monthly event where we cover a broad range of subjects and themes surrounding the lives of women of colour, non-binary and gender variant people.
Café Sessions:
The Women’s Café holds monthly sessions to build a space of belonging to women who have felt a disconnection from the wider world due to their identity and resulting experiences. These sessions focus on community building, self-care and improving the career prospects of racialised women in the workplace and academia.
Our events cover a broad range of subjects and themes. We aim to develop a programme of events determined by the women who visit the café. We invite a range of external speakers and workshop facilitators who advocate for transformational change to create moments for genuine knowledge sharing and exchange.
All our sessions take place in St Benet’s Chaplaincy yurt from 5-7 pm. We provide a range of hot and cold snacks, cakes and hot drinks – all free of charge and in beautiful surroundings! Sign up to the sessions via our website or LinkedIn and join us for a warm and uplifting evening.
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We want to transform campus events by hosting a relaxed and alcohol-free cafe that centres QMUL students and alumni who identify as a woman of colour or a Global South woman. We want to establish a community within our university that will enable women of colour to make meaningful connections or enjoy a bit of ‘me-time’ while listening to invited speakers and talks from our own students and alumni. We aim to have important conversations about our present and future in a laid-back atmosphere.
We host two different types of session:
Women’s Cafe sessions – Every last Monday of the month, 5-7 pm. These sessions host practical workshops and inspiring speakers who offer all our participants a space to speak their mind, communicate difficult experiences or anxieties and build connections with fellow students, employers and staff members who are there to help them.
Community sessions – Once a semester, 5-7 pm. These sessions are devoted to self-care, connection, and community-building among students and alumni. Organised by students and alumni, these sessions offer a chance to meet other women who share similar dreams and concerns.
Dates for sessions will be advertised on the Women’s Café website, the Careers Hub website and through our mailing list.
