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Image Description: women at a protest holding up a banner that reads “We Will Not be Silenced”. [CW: violence against women, sexual assault] Sarah Everard was murdered when walking back from her friend’s house via Clapham Common 11 days ago. The Met have confirmed that the man they have now arrested was a serving police […]
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Image Description: illustrated images of period products on a pink background. At the start of 2021 the UK Government announced that, from this year onwards, the tampon tax would be abolished in the entire country. This comes roughly three years after a protest was held outside Westminster, calling for an end to period poverty amid […]
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Image description: A crib and a teddy bear mobile. The American model, Chrissy Teigen, and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, have both recently shared very honest accounts of their respective miscarriages. Teigen publicly shared her feelings of grief on Instagram following the loss of her third child due to complications in her pregnancy. The […]
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Image Description: Gina Martin in front of a blue background Trigger Warning: Discussion of upskirting, sexual assault and rape Next up in our ‘Womxn on the Move’ series is Gina Martin: campaigner, speaker and writer who took on the government to make upskirting (taking a sexually intrusive and non-consensual photograph up someone’s skirt) illegal in […]
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Image Description: Protestor in knitted hat at the 2018 Women’s March Cw: Transphobia All too often I hear the words ‘I support equality between men and women but I’m not a feminist’. Even the feminist icon, Simone de Beauvoir, repeatedly refused to align herself with the feminist movement until later in her career in 1972. […]
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Image description: a black and white photograph of a group of women wearing ‘stop the ERA’ badges ‘Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.’ Ah, I can almost hear you thinking as you visualise the scene. We’re at a Trump rally, or a Fox […]
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Image description: woman receives face massage with a towel around her head as her skin is moisturised In amongst the controversies of the past few weeks, there has been growing fury over the re-opening of beauty salons and clinics. The guidance for the beauty industry in the pandemic has not been received well by those […]
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The drag queen Trixie Mattel, otherwise known as Brian Firkus, is the winner of Drag Race All Stars Season 3, but also a confessed, obsessive Barbie doll collector. Firkus’s love for Barbie started when he was young. As a gay boy from Milwaulkee, he wasn’t allowed “girl toys,” but was fascinated by the tanned, blonde, […]
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Image description: Alyssa Milano, leader of the so-called “sex strike” Alyssa Milano, a feminist activist and actor, recently prompted a heated online debate after proposing a “sex strike” to combat new abortion laws. The so-called ‘heartbeat bill’ passed in Georgia plans to prohibit abortion once a foetal heartbeat can be detected. This can be as […]
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Image Description: Marsha P. Johnson, her boyfriend, Joseph Ratanski, and Sylvia Rivera in parade, 1973 The Oxford Student recently interviewed Henna Khanom, one of the co-chairs for the Oxford SU LGBTQ+ Campaign. For any people who don’t know them, they are the political and activist arm of the university’s queer community. Henna is also a member […]
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St Edmund Hall has withdrawn for reconsideration its 2019 Rebecca West Prize for Writing after suggestions that its title “excises race” by focusing exclusively on gender. The question originally read “The Return of the ISIS Soldier’s Wife: What Role Does Gender Play in Culpability?”. In a statement on their website, Teddy Hall said this year’s title […]
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At the age of just twenty-three, London-born Scarlett Curtis has already done a lot of things. As the curator of Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies), a collection of essays written by various women, herself included, on what the F-word means to them, one might be tempted to label her a writer. As a […]
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Made in Dagenham is alive and, most prominently, relevant. At a time when theatre seems to lean towards the escapist, this musical provides us with a (true) story about the issue of equal, or unequal, pay. Everything in this production is well thought out. The musical itself, set in 1968 and concerning the troubling pay […]
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Image Credit: Universal Pictures. Description: Mike Myers’ mask in Halloween. The recently released Halloween is the eleventh film in the much-maligned franchise and the second reboot, so when production was first announced back in 2017, it is safe to say that I kept my expectations in check. For once though, such cynicism proved unnecessary. General […]
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If you haven’t been to the Michael Pilch theatre before, allow me to set the scene. It is a small space, a black box studio and somewhat dimly lit at the best of times. The audience rows go only three rows back; it is the most intimate of performance spaces. It is also a genius […]
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It is difficult to fault Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW, a play that probes the depths of misogyny with an astute awareness of the painful sexism that journalism perpetuates, but also of the human action behind it. TheatreGoose’s production of the show at the Pilch treats its subject with flawlessly executed precision, wit and sensitivity, unpeeling layers […]
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Looking back at the first Avengers film, it is sometimes hard to believe how much the Marvel Cinematic Universe has changed. In the six years since 2012, Marvel Studios has produced thirteen more films and a franchise that is unlike anything cinema has seen before. Perhaps even more shocking is how much the women of […]
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How it feels to be a bad example of a good feminist. First and foremost, being a feminist means believing in gender equality; but being a good example of a feminist is so much more. To be a feminist role model means being a ‘strong, independent woman’; one who stands up for herself and for […]
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When a tutor starts blurting “trigger warning” at every possible interval, what are you supposed to think? A female account of a boorish use of trigger warnings which were callous and contextually sexist. We all know the story of Lot’s daughters rather well; his angelic guests were threatened by a mob, so Lot offered them […]
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