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Brown Girls Do It Too (P. Yannamani)
By Pranathi Yannamani Picture: BBC Brown Girls Do It Too is a podcast on BBC sounds featuring two South Asian women, Rubina Pabani and...
Mar 20, 20214 min read
The Problem with Beauty (G. Armour)
By Georgia Armour The problem with beauty. Overrated. Sexist. Racist. Beauty, by definition, is ‘the quality of being pleasurable,...
Jan 25, 20216 min read
It’s Rape, not Romance: The Insidious Anti-Feminisms of Fairy Tales (A. Meghji)
By Alexandra Meghji It is not at all original to claim that popular fairy tales and their film adaptations participate in the maintenance...
Dec 6, 20206 min read
Don't (mis)quote me on that! (J. Plowright)
(By John Plowright) I guess that ever since people have been thought worthy of quotation they’ve been misquoted (“Blessed are the...
Oct 25, 20204 min read
Listen to the voices of the past (W. Banks)
Listening to the voices of the past: the importance of polyvocality in school history curricula By Will Banks Word processors have been...
Aug 2, 20204 min read
But Why was Rowling Wrong? (A. Watkinson)
By Abi Watkinson Through the murky sludge of confusion surrounding the pandemic, identity politics has shone to the forefront of popular...
Jul 26, 20203 min read
La Salamandra- A story closer to home than it seems (K. Canaway)
By Kyoko Canaway People often try and divide literature into two distinct categories: the books you read to relax and step out of the...
Jul 23, 20205 min read
Gender in a global pandemic (M. Tarrant)
By Mimi Tarrant Since the first case of COVID-19 was identified in China in January, 2020, multiple studies have been conducted to...
Jul 19, 20205 min read
Fetishisation is not support (K. McCarthy)
By Katie McCarthy If I had a pound for every time someone has stared at me whilst I got with someone, asked me for a threesome or made a...
Jul 16, 20203 min read
A Weight Just Off The Shoulders (E. Armitage)
By Emmeline Armitage (Photo: Getty Images) You’ve probably seen the video. The one where child star Millie Bobby Brown cuddles into...
Jun 10, 20206 min read
“I can’t breathe”: The Time for Intersectionality is Now (L.Bramall, P. Yannamani)
By Laura Bramall and Pranathi Yannamani ‘I can’t breathe’ is not a new phrase. In 2014 Eric Garner gasped ‘I can’t breathe’ before dying...
Jun 5, 20204 min read
Frailty, thy name isn’t woman: are female leaders better at dealing with crises? (E. Bennett)
By Eve Bennett (Photo: Guido Bergmann) “Wir schaffen das.” Whether you speak German or not, if you’ve followed European politics to any...
May 11, 20205 min read
Courage calls to courage everywhere (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall Fawcett’s banner ‘Courage calls to courage everywhere’ stares down at us from her plinth in Parliament Square. She has...
Mar 8, 20203 min read
What does feminism demand of men? (J. Underhill)
By Jack Underhill C.W. suicide, depression, violence The call for men to be feminists is often argued on 2 terms. One is that feminism is...
Feb 7, 20202 min read
BOSSY WOMEN (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall I have four problems with BOSSY WOMEN. Here they are: Sometimes you just have to get what you want I’m not condoning...
Jan 21, 20203 min read
The Cost of Pain (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall Being a woman is really really painful. I’m sure being a man is painful too, but nothing like as bad. I’m not just...
Dec 2, 20193 min read
Why intersectional feminism? Why a blog? (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall In sixth form, I wrote an article for the first edition of our philosophy magazine titled ‘HOW NOT TO BE AN ANNOYING...
Nov 6, 20192 min read
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