Feminism


Review – Skint Estate by Cash Carraway

20 November 2020 Cash Carraway's memoir is a powerful recollection of working class struggle. Her story is a quiet call to arms, writes Jessica Andrews

Ntando Yam: theatre as protest

28 August 2020 Phoebe Kisubi reflects on using participatory theatre as a tool for social and political activism among sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa

Talking back to Shakespeare: theatre in women’s prisons

26 August 2020 Shakespeare’s women can alert us to alternative stories – if we listen to them. In ‘talking back’ to the Bard we can change our own stories, says Charlotte Scott

The politics of Covid-19: a crisis for cleaners

14 May 2020 Cleaners are being ignored in the government’s provision of a safety-net during the pandemic. The current crisis is rooted in a long history of domestic work being made invisible, writes Laura Schwartz

Making gaming great again

27 April 2020 With pop culture increasingly a political battlefield, Marzena Zukowska asks Carolyn Petit of Feminist Frequency how the left can leverage the momentum of video gaming

International Women's Day rally at Leeds University during the 2018 USS Pension Strikes by Alarichall

Feminism in the precarious academy

10 March 2020 As the University and Colleges Union strike enters its final week, Ruth Pearce discusses the importance of building alliances and fighting back

Review – We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

21 November 2019 A book that systematically unpicks the myths that are spread in order to preserve the status quo, written by Nesrine Malik. Reviewed by Leah Cowan

They shall not pass: feminists on the front line

9 July 2019 Across the world, feminists are fighting the far right and fascism. We hear from activists in seven countries.

The political whiteness of #MeToo

4 June 2019 We need to confront how the movement is shaped by the power of whiteness, write Alison Phipps

Women and the Modi raj

3 April 2019 Gargi Bhattacharya examines the sexist reality behind the ‘pro-women’ rhetoric of India’s ruling party

Cyborg sentiments

27 March 2019 Sophie Lewis assesses Xenofeminism and its close comrades, bedfellows and associates

Higher! Further! Faster! More!

19 March 2019 Captain Marvel is Marvel's first blockbuster with a female lead. Miriam Kent asks what we should make of it all these female superheroes taking over the big screen.

A new civilising mission

18 March 2019 The treatment of Muslim women shows that French feminism has not shed some imperialist and racist practices, argues Malia Bouattia

Feminist Futures

11 March 2019 'We will win because we have to'. Amy Hall introduces the brand new Spring Issue of Red Pepper.

Our bodies, our choice

8 March 2019 Joni Alizah Cohen explains what the battle for ‘bodily autonomy’ is about – and why it’s so important.

‘Balance for Better’ does little to address issues facing women

7 March 2019 This International Women's Day, we need to prioritise defending the rights of working women, writes Rosie Urbanovich from War on Want

On International Women’s Day, sex workers are going on strike

6 March 2019 They're demanding decriminalisation and full workers' rights, reports Ava Caradonna

“What’s a nice girl like you doing in a job like this?”

25 February 2019 A new study compares working conditions in sex work with other jobs disproportionately done by women. By Niki Adams and Tamsin Wressel

Anti-fascism is a feminist issue

7 December 2018 Hope Worsdale explains why the fight against patriarchy and the fight against fascism go hand in hand.

Our bodies are a battleground

28 November 2018 Annahita Moradi reports on women fighting back against Iran's morality laws

Playing the game

2 October 2018 The new Women’s Super League season kicked off in September with renewed media attention. Alex Culvin analyses the growth of women’s football

Selling sex is a working class job. It’s time for Labour to stand with sex workers.

24 September 2018 When policymakers say the nature of commercial sex itself is the problem, they sidestep the less attention-grabbing concerns of working class people; concerns like keeping electric on, or managing childcare costs that are rising faster than wages. By Juno Mac

We need to decriminalise abortion now

12 September 2018 It's time to scrap outdated laws and start trusting women and healthcare professionals. By Kerry Abel

Abandoned by the state: How the police fail survivors of sexual assault

20 June 2018 The police drop so many cases that experts say rape has effectively been ‘decriminalised’ - and that's before we talk about SpyCop abusers. By Marienna Pope-Weidemann

The UK government is denying Northern Irish women their fundamental rights

31 May 2018 Kellie O’Dowd from Alliance for Choice writes that the government could intervene to extend reproductive rights to Northern Ireland. It is just choosing not to.

When does a woman stop being a person?

21 May 2018 Eleanor Penny writes that Ireland's 8th Amendment is a masterclass in how to strip pregnant people of rights over their own bodies.

This International Women’s Day, we need to support the struggles of migrant women

8 March 2018 Migrant women are often left out of the conversation on women's rights. London Latinxs are taking direct action to set the record straight.

Men should support the women’s strike – by taking over the domestic work

7 March 2018 Enda O'Riordan explains why it's vital for men to provide practical support for the women on strike - to support their activism, and to build future communities of care where the work is shared equally.

Kurdish women call for a global women’s movement

5 March 2018 Kurdish women call on women around the world to come together to build a radical movement for women's liberation

On March 8th, women across the world are going on strike

20 February 2018 International Women's Day is set to be marked by strikes from "paid work in offices and factories, or unpaid domestic work in homes, communities and bedrooms."

The aid industry is long overdue its #MeToo moment

13 February 2018 Ruth Tanner writes that revelations about Oxfam's behaviour in Haiti are shocking, but not surprising.

On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.

6 February 2018 Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds tell the story of two demonstrations from the women's movement.

Kick-starting the stalled revolution

6 February 2018 The women's movement is not done here. By Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds

Transphobia is the latest weapon in a raging culture war

5 December 2017 The vicious media campaign against trans people is part bigotry, part strategy, writes Roz Kaveney

Abortion is still illegal in this country

15 November 2017 Fifty years after the Abortion Act, women are still dying from being denied basic services, write activists from Feminist Fightback

Burning witches and banning abortions made capitalism possible

31 October 2017 Our economic system depends on a long and bloody history of controlling women's bodies, writes Eleanor Penny.

#MeToo is necessary – but I’m sick of having to prove my humanity

18 October 2017 Women are expected to reveal personal trauma to be taken seriously, writes Eleanor Penny

Meet the digital feminists

14 October 2017 We're building new online tools to create a new feminist community and tackle sexism wherever we find it, writes Franziska Grobke

It’s time to shut down Yarl’s Wood detention centre

16 May 2017 Hundreds of people surrounded the fences this weekend. Hera Lorandos spoke to women who have suffered inside.

LSE cleaners’ strike: Don’t let Women’s History Month become Groundhog Day

15 March 2017 It's over 100 years ago that domestic workers began to organise to demand the same rights as other workers. Yet with LSE cleaners on strike this week, historian Laura Schwartz asks: how much has really changed?

Growing up married

28 February 2017 Laura Nicholson interviews Dr Eylem Atakav about her new film, Growing Up Married, which tells the stories of Turkey’s child brides

Pass the domestic violence bill

20 February 2017 Emma Snaith reports on the significance of the new anti-domestic violence bill

Why do lovers break each other’s hearts?

14 February 2017 In 1972 David Widgery wrote about the bitter intensity of love in capitalism

Mustang film review: Three fingers to Erdogan

22 November 2016 Laura Nicholson reviews Mustang, Deniz Gamze Erguven’s unashamedly feminist film critique of Turkey’s creeping conservatism

Momentum Kids: the parental is political

19 November 2016 Momentum Kids is not about indoctrinating children, but rather the more radical idea that children have an important role to play in shaping the future, writes Kristen Hope

Nowhere to go: Sisters Uncut demand homes free from violence

17 October 2016 South East London Sisters Uncut stormed Southwark Council’s quarterly cabinet to highlight the council’s failure to support domestic violence survivors. Emma Snaith reports

The Zika virus: government responses add to women’s burden

22 March 2016 The Zika virus is shining a light on the inadequacies of abortion and family planning laws in Latin America, writes Maisie Davies

Red carpets and purple flares: direct action with Sisters Uncut

20 February 2016 Clare Walton reports on Sisters Uncut, the grassroots group taking direct action to defend domestic violence services

London event: Festival of Choice 2015

21 September 2015 A week of events looking at threats to reproductive rights and the plight of women and girls who do not have access to safe and legal abortion in countries around the world

Don’t criminalise, organise!

21 April 2015 Katie Cruz speaks to Melissa Gira Grant, US journalist and former sex worker



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