25 Playwrights and their Plays, 1700-1799

Mary Pix (1666-1709): Manchester Metropolitan University recently posted a complete performance (production credits) of Mary Pix’s comedy, The Beau Defeated (1700). The play was also adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the title The Fantasti…

‘We lost everything’: Afghan wheelchair basketball team captain speaks out

Nilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban ruleWhen the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan’s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.“There w…

‘We owe them a huge amount’: march to honour Greenham Common women

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Posted byAlexandra Topping
08/22/2021

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 …

Patsy Kensit: ‘You don’t have to marry all your boyfriends’

The actor, 53, talks about her charming dad, never reading her reviews in the papers, staying strong and eating nothing but shepherd’s pieWe grew up without money: two rooms and an outside loo. I remember shyly cowering behind the coal shed as Mum trie…

The new award from the Women’s prize should scrap its age limit

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Posted byJoanna Walsh
08/21/2021

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…

Menopause, the law and discrimination at work | Letters

Readers respond to a feature on women forced out of work by menopause and a report on suggestions that menopause should be a protected characteristic under the Equality ActMiddle-aged women and others going through the menopause experience unacceptable…

Scottish government launches country’s first women’s health plan

Initiative described as ‘first stage of a long-term commitment to reducing health inequalities for women’Commitments to reduce waiting times for diagnosing endometriosis from over eight years to less than 12 months, offer individual care plans after a …

I am an Afghan woman working for a western NGO in Kabul. I feel forgotten | Anonymous

In the past I thought that, if worst came to worst, the NGO would protect me. Now I think they have forgotten meI am an Afghan woman in my 20s, living in Kabul. I have five sisters. My oldest sister completed elementary school. The second one is a midw…

The day life changed in Kabul

The streets of Kabul were emptied of women on Monday, the first full day of Taliban rule across Afghanistan, as Taliban gunmen patrolled in cars seized by police, confiscated guns from security guards and urged shopkeepers and government employees back…

‘We always see sex from the man’s view’: Cammie Toloui, the peep show performer who peeped back

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Posted byDiane Smyth
08/16/2021

Turning her camera on her customers, the sex worker and photojournalist exposed the male gaze to itself – and opened up a world of shame and desire“As a rebellious preteen, I sat down and made a list of my life goals,” writes Cammie Toloui in her phot…

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25 Playwrights and their Plays, 1700-1799

‘We lost everything’: Afghan wheelchair basketball team captain speaks out

‘We owe them a huge amount’: march to honour Greenham Common women

Patsy Kensit: ‘You don’t have to marry all your boyfriends’

The new award from the Women’s prize should scrap its age limit

Menopause, the law and discrimination at work | Letters

Scottish government launches country’s first women’s health plan

I am an Afghan woman working for a western NGO in Kabul. I feel forgotten | Anonymous

The day life changed in Kabul

‘We always see sex from the man’s view’: Cammie Toloui, the peep show performer who peeped back

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古代メソポタミアの戦車を引いていたのは「史上初のハイブリッド種」のロバだった！ – ナゾロジー

Saving Britney review – a Spears superfan breaks the ice

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火山爆発指数、ピナトゥボ山級の5～6か　8段階、気候への影響懸念：朝日新聞デジタル