Slinging around phrases about body autonomy belittles the pro-choice debate and overlooks issues surrounding pregnancy and fertilityI am not an angry person, I get headaches instead. Rage is swallowed like a meatball and spreads fattily around my body,…
Celebrities join billboard drive to end taboo around the menopause
Poster campaign tells women they no longer need to ‘keep calm and carry on’The common symptoms that herald the menopause are regularly dismissed with a joke. A little discomfort? A slight embarrassment? On Monday, a new poster campaign and online chari…
‘I can’t work’: the mothers left to fight alone for their children’s mental health care
Three parents forced to give up their lives and careers to get help for their severely ill children tell their storiesCassandra Leese should have been at the front of the queue when the NHS called on former staff to return to help fight the nascent Cov…
UK MPs urged to ban ‘virginity repair’ surgery as well as virginity testing
Exclusive: abusive practice should also be outlawed in health bill to protect women, say gynaecologistsThe government’s pledge to outlaw virginity testing will be undermined unless fake surgery touted as “virginity repair” is also banned, the Royal Col…
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…
“We are all Martians”
Natalija Majsova (06/09/2020, Strelka Mag; also in a video lecture for the Canadian Centre for Architecture), “Soviet Sci-Fi Film and Different Modalities of Future Ecosystems”: “Irina Povolotskaia’s 1967 debut The Mysterious Wall [75 mins.] pioneered …
“When I grow up, I want to be like you. No kids and two dogs”
“In a place where there were so few acceptable ways to be a woman, she modeled something different, vibrant, and fulfilled.”
The Guardian view on the Taliban’s advance: not an American debacle but Afghans’ tragedy
People are losing their homes, their freedom and their hope. That should be more of a priority than US credibility“There’s going to be no circumstance where you’ll see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan…
‘A source of hope’: Afghanistan’s female journalists challenging sexism and the Taliban
Zahra Joya started Rukhshana Media so Afghan women could tell their stories in their own words. Now she is battling to keep it going as long as she canDespite years of development, investment and progress in the Afghan media industry, 28-year-old Zahra…
‘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…