In 1982, Julie Bindel joined 30,000 women ‘embracing the base’ in protest over nuclear arms. Here she recounts the pivotal role the protest played in their livesIn September 1981, 32 women, four men and several children marched from Cardiff to Berkshir…
“Barbie Career of the Year as a Window on Centrist Feminism”
“I am not, nor have I never been, a Barbie collector, but I find the Career of the Year series fascinating as a metric of public attitudes toward feminism. …. Generally Mattel’s team wants to present Barbie as a feminist trendsetter but in a centrist…
Top 10 gripes in literature | Lucy Ellmann
Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticismI probably started griping as soon as I could talk. I know I was a good sulker, and sulking…
‘We owe them a huge amount’: march to honour Greenham Common women
Hundreds will march 130 miles to mark 40th anniversary of peace camp created to protest against US nuclear weaponsForty years ago a small group of women, along with a few men and children in buggies in tow, left their homes in Wales to protest against …
The new award from the Women’s prize should scrap its age limit
Literary prize culture favours young and marketable writers – and the new Futures scheme is simply adding to the problemLast week, the Women’s prize announced a new award in partnership with Good Housekeeping magazine. “Futures” will provide promotiona…
Elon Musk’s tiny home won’t help save the world. Paying more taxes would | Arwa Mahdawi
It’s more than a little nauseating to watch a billionaire whose wealth rocketed during a pandemic being venerated for living modestly Continue reading…
‘Flying feminist’ Lilian Bland celebrated in new exhibition
Northern Irish museum celebrates car-dealing, trouser-wearing, jiu-jitsu fighting aviation pioneerIn an era that stifled women, Lilian Bland blazed with a life force that defied all convention, including gravity.She worked as a press photographer, smok…
Amia Srinivasan: ‘Sex as a subject isn’t weird. It’s very, very serious’
With her debut book, The Right to Sex, a 36-year-old Oxford don is dazzling everyone from Vogue to Prospect magazine. She discusses porn, gender dysphoria – and why her students are no snowflakesIf All Souls is one of the most inordinately beautiful co…
Women Make SF Across the Media Universe
#WomenMakeSF is a project by Dr. Amy C. Chambers, where she intends to watch and review every feature film, short film and TV show created or co-created by a woman. She introduced the project in the blogpost Women Make Science Fiction: Gender is not a …