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A ‘modern day witch-hunt’, in modern day Greece; “It was a craven, cowardly act.” By Julie Tomlin. The rounding up of hundreds of women in Athens followed by the parading of the photographs of 30 ‘HIV-infected prostitutes’ in May last year had all the hallmarks of a politically-orchestrated campaign. The media...Leggi Tutto
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Paradise Row presents ‘False Positives and False Negatives’, recent works by Jane and Louise Wilson. This exhibition brings together several bodies of work, and explores the act of surveillance, considering its form and presence in spaces burdened by potent histories. ‘Face Scripting – What
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We asked Julie Bindel to speak ‘because her opinion carries a large amount of weight’ on the topic of porn, and its effects on women. One heated debate ended recently after feminist campaigner and writer Julie Bindel announced she would not be taking part in a University debate on pornography after
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‘If you sleep with them they can help put in a word for you to be released or help with your case.’ Trigger warning for this story and the links contained within it. In the Observer last week, the story of ‘Tanja’ revealed the systemic abuse of women in Yarl’s Wood immigration
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A new campaign aims to change the debate around welfare benefits and debunk the images. We all know what it’s like to live on benefits, whether we’ve ever had to do so or not. We’ve heard the tales, imbibed the rhetoric, grown fat on our daily diet of stereotypes and scaremongering. Mouthing the
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New figures show bonus and flexitime disparity on top of the continued pay gap. Nothing puts a damper on the annual back-to-school-and-work energy of early autumn better than a new batch of statistics revealing the huge financial disadvantages faced by women in the workplace around the world. In
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Joined by friend Beth Candy, Wonder Woman and her Lasso of Truth return to promote peace and fight evil. Internationally renowned comic book writer Grant Morrison has started work on a new Wonder Woman story. Despite being one of only three DC Comics characters that are continually in print, Wonder
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Amanda Rodriguez reviews the new prison TV series Wentworth. The second in a weekly series of cross-posts from Bitch Flicks. Wentworth is an Australian women’s prison drama that is much grittier, darker, more brutal and realistic than another recent prison drama - Orange is the New Black -
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‘Government and pro-government forces have continued to conduct widespread attacks on the civilian population’. A new report from the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria has illuminated the increasingly brutal tactics that the country’s government – and, to a
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Women are taking centre-stage to revitalise plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Othello Syndrome, for example, said director Hannah Kaye, focusses on the gender politics of Shakespeare’s original. “Essentially the production provides a contemporary feminist lens with which
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A Coventry charity’s sponsored sleep out raised awareness of the needs of street-based sex workers. I recently took part in 12-hour sponsored sleep out. It was in aid of Kairos Women Working Together (WWT), a Coventry-based charity that supports women who are risk of or subject to sexual
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In what some have called a 'landmark' vote, the Church in Wales has agreed to consecrate women bishops, but provision must be made for traditionalists who oppose the move....Leggi Tutto
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We are about to embark on a regular feature that highlights incidences of sexism in the media and we will welcome contributions. Watch this space!...Leggi Tutto
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To combat sex trafficking, ‘we must address the demand for commercial sex that fuels it’. Two UN reports are telling countries that in order to support efforts to reduce HIV/AIDS and to promote the human rights of people in prostitution, all aspects of the commercial sex industry should
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High numbers of men admit to sexual violence against women: UN study. A UN report on men and violence has revealed that sexual violence against women is prevalent in the Asia Pacific region, with nearly half of men interviewed admitting to using some form of sexual or physical violence against a
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Valuing Maternity to investigate the impact of welfare reform on pregnant women and new mothers. The Valuing Maternity campaign, which is made up of advice providers such as Citizens Advice, specialist charities like Maternity Action and trade unions and is asking women to come forward with their
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Pro-choice protest against ’40 Days for Life’ on 24 September from 6.45pm-7.30pm. On 25 September the ‘pro-life’ campaign 40 Days for Life will begin “prayer vigils” outside reproductive health clinics around the UK in an attempt to block women’s freedom to choose a
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Protest against the Radisson hotel group supporting an industry that has a record of exploitation. The Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel in London’s Bloomsbury is set to host a major conference for the porn industry on September 22-25 and women’s groups are calling for a boycott of the hotel
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Researchers in Copenhagen have found that, for some men at least, watching porn makes them more sexist....Leggi Tutto
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Petition the UK government to improve the responses to adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Unity & Hope is running a petition is to call for action from everyone who cares about supporting adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). Help us tell the government to take urgent action to
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Karen Ingala Smith highlights the reality of cultural femicide. Many people know the statistic: ‘two women in England and Wales a week are killed through domestic violence’; but how many try to connect with that and to feel the impact of what it really means? In the first three days of
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Online now: an oral history of the Women’s Liberation Movement. The British Library’s Sisterhood and After website is part of a wider project the aim of which is to create an original and extensive oral history archive of the lives of feminist change-makers of the 1970s and ‘80s. The archive
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Looking at media coverage of the Michael Le Vell case – Part One. From Everyday Victim Blaming. We took the decision not to discuss the Michael Le Vell rape trial until after the verdict came in due to our concerns about numerous media articles which involved perpetuating rape myths. We were also
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Not so gleeful. Erin Tatum reviews the treatment of disability in the TV series Glee. The third in a weekly series of cross-posts from Bitch Flicks. It’s no secret that Glee is offensive to pretty much anyone who isn’t an able white male. While Glee has justifiably received a lot of
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The Tate is showing the first ever international full-scale survey of Mira Schendel’s work. The artist Mira Schendel is a towering figure of Brazilian modernism, cited as a significant influence by many younger artists – and yet even in São Paulo, the majority of her works are in private
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A new play at the Globe Theatre examines women’s struggle for higher education. It is Girton College Cambridge 1896 and its principal Elizabeth Welsh (Gabrielle Lloyd ) is determined that her small group of female students will be allowed to graduate at the end of their studies. Welsh had
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Campaign to put consent in the UK’s National Curriculum. Campaign4Consent is a Twitter Youth Feminist Army (TYFA) campaign to get sexual consent taught in schools as part to the sex and relationships education (SRE) National Curriculum. Campaign4Consent believes that the current curriculum is
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Some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK and the world this week. Across the UK – and worldwide: 28 September: Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) is calling on members and
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Ask the Labour Party to include women claiming asylum in their party’s policy on women’s safety. Over the summer, the London Refugee Women’s Forum took part in a film making workshop and made this powerful short film introducing themselves and the issues that they’re
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I rattle on quite frequently about the barriers to women in cycling. And I will today, too. Writing in the Guardian this week, Grace Wong raised one of the issues which is frequently overlooked: the way in which women’s sportswear is marketed. As a runner and a cyclist, this is something that
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#fuckhonour and #fuckshame, when it silences young people reaching out. By Huma Munshi In the film ‘Monsoon Wedding’ an adult survivor of sexual abuse comes face-to-face with the perpetrator at the wedding of her best friend. As a result of the close familial ties and the need to uphold community
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Teenagers now see sexualisation as “part and parcel” of living. According to academic Dionne Taylor, teenagers now see sexualisation as “part and parcel” of living, and the constant streaming of raunchy dances featuring scantily-clad women is affecting their life chances. Taylor’s study of
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By Sara Salem There is nothing new in using women as a cultural battleground. Women have regularly been used symbolically to signify and reproduce nations, cultures and religions; and the norms and values that constitute these. When the French colonized Algeria, for example, they used the status of
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Brighton: 21 September: Roller Derby: Brighton Rockers vs. Leeds Roller Dolls at Dolphin Leisure Centre, Pasture Hill Road, Brighton, from 2.30pm The Brighton Rockers’ home bout sees them taking on