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More than four in ten young women in London sexually harassed over the last year
Via the EVAW Coalition's Press Release: Call for awareness campaign, training and 'bystander intervention' A YouGov survey for the End Violence Against Women Coalition published today (25 May)... Continue reading »
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New review: Joanna Hogg, a very British outsider
The work of Joanna Hogg was selected to feature in the recent BFI season Made in Britain, focusing on British women filmmakers. Her cinematic (as distinguished from television and promotional) output... Continue reading »
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New feature - The poly-feminist manifesto: towards a feminist non-monogamy
How do you ensure a community is anti-sexist? It's difficult work whatever the community, no less, it turns out, in the polyamorous community. A group of workshop participants, writing anonymously,... Continue reading »
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Sex work, trafficking and the Olympics: the case for a moratorium
Stop the Arrests Campaign, a coalition of sex worker rights activists and supporters, is calling for a moratorium on arrests, detention and deportation of sex workers in London with immediate effect... Continue reading »
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"What if I take my problem to the United Nations?" UK Government's record on human rights up for review
Charlotte Gage is a Policy Officer at the Women's Resource Centre. She is working with a coalition of women's and human rights organisations to raise the issues affecting women in the UK at an... Continue reading »
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Legalities of excluding trans women from women only spaces
After Laura's piece on the F-Word blog, commenters suggested that excluding trans women from women-only space is illegal. Unfortunately, the laws surrounding exclusion of trans* people from women... Continue reading »
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New feature: Women born women?
How is it possible for feminists to reconcile these two statements. The first, of course, is Simone de Beauvoir's most famous quote: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." And the second is... Continue reading »
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My pregnant body: sexualisation and sanitisation
This is the third in a series of posts by Yasmin, a pregnant feminist who is sharing her experiences of pregnancy with us, in the hope that she is not alone in her thinking! As I entered my second... Continue reading »
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New feature: It's not feminism that hurts men
I expect many of you will be familiar with the recent Observer article by Elizabeth Day about philosopher David Benatar's claims that "sexism against men is a widespread yet unspoken malaise." (You... Continue reading »
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Weekly round-up and open thread, 15-21 May 2012
Here's this week's round-up of some of the bits around the internet we haven't had a chance to blog about. Please add links in the comments section if there's anything you came across that you want... Continue reading »
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New review: Her Noise at Tate Modern
The Her Noise theme began as a 2001 curatorial project focused on gender imbalance in sonic art. This led the creators to map women in the field, along with those in electronic music and punk, for a... Continue reading »
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In praise of slacktivism
I've come across ever such a lot of uses of the word 'slacktivist' or 'slacktivism' recently. Described on Wikipedia as "a pejorative term that describes "feel-good" measures, in support of an issue... Continue reading »
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Gendered assumptions in daily life
This is a guest post by Hennie Weiss & Elin Weiss Many women, and men, encounter daily interactions in which gender role stereotypes and "typical" gender behaviours are manifested. Sometimes we... Continue reading »
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There's nothing radical about transphobia
Like many of you who have been discussing the issue on Twitter and Facebook today, I was angered to learn that a new UK conference for radical feminists, RadFem2012, is not only playing host to a... Continue reading »
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17 May - International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia
by Helen G // 17 May 2012, 10:10 Today ILGA-Europe launches its first Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People in Europe 2011 supplemented by... Continue reading »
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She Monkeys opens in London and Dublin
Swedish director Lisa Aschan's last year's début feature She Monkeys (Apflickorna) is coming to selected London cinemas on Friday 18 May (and to the Irish Film Institute in Dublin a week later).... Continue reading »
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Where have all Cannes women directors gone?
Arguably the most prestigious (and indisputably most glamorous) film festival in the world opens tomorrow in Cannes, the French Riviera. As it is the Festival's 65th birthday, no-one else but iconic... Continue reading »
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Weekly round-up and open thread, 7-14 May 2012
Hi all Here's this week's round-up of some of the bits around the internet we haven't had a chance to blog about. Please add links in the comments section if there's anything you came across that you... Continue reading »
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Parental leave: what's the deal?
One of the few positive things in last week's Queen's speech was the government's promise to introduce new, flexible parental leave, in recognition of the fact that childcare should not be the sole... Continue reading »
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Gaggle update
With their debut album From the Mouth of the Cave finally hitting the shops on 4 June, Gaggle have announced that they will be staging a series of 12 London events (one for each track on the album)... Continue reading »
