Accepting The Privileges Women Bestow.

Women's Therapy Centre - Offers short- long-term individual and group psychoanalytic psychotherapy, plus workshops and self-development courses. Run by wormen for women. Sets out to understand the underlying causes and make sense of a range of difficulties, including eating problems, childhood sexual abuse, self-harm and violent relationships. Information and publications list available. Also offers consultancy and training for professionals: http://www.womenstherapycentre.co.uk/

Women and Girls Network - Offers a telephone helpline, face-to-face counselling, groups and complimentary therapies for women and girls with experience of sexual, physical or emotional violence. Can refer on to specialist services: http://www.wgn.org.uk/

Rights of Women - Free legal advice telephone helpline for women, mainly in the field of family law, including separation, divorce and family breakdown, domestic violence, access/custody disputes, lesbian parenting. General advice in other areas, such as employment, housing rights, debts management, crime and sexual violence: http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/

Threshold Women's Mental Health Infoline - Confidential freephone national information helpline run by women for women. Can provide details of local and national services across the UK. Publishes a series of factsheets for women on mental health issues, provides emotional support for women seeking information: http://www.thresholdwomen.org.uk/

I have booked my place for 7pm on Thursday 19th February 2009, to attend the evening event of '15 Years of DIVA Magazine' http://www.divamag.co.uk/ at The Women's Library http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/ It has been advertised thus:

To celebrate 15 years of DIVA, Europe's biggest-selling lesbian magazine, this special event explores the role of DIVA magazine and how it has filled a gap in the magazines market. Join Jane Czyzselska and Louise Carolin, the editor and deputy editor of DIVA magazine in conversation with Stella Duffy who will discuss how magazines like DIVA cater for their readers.

Jane Czyzselska has written for DIVA since 1994, and is now Deputy Editor. She writes a weekly column for The London Paper and is a frequent contributor to The Times and The Guardian.

Louise Carolin has written for DIVA since 1994, and joined DIVA in 2001. In the 1980s, she was a member of the collectives which produced the cult lesbian and gay magazines Shocking Pink and Square Peg.

Stella Duffy is a writer and actress, author of State of Happiness and The Room of Lost Things, and has also written articles for Elle and Marie Claire.