Hello, and welcome to todays music paste up. First off, a brand spanking new band: Savages. Methinks the spirit of post-punk is strong in this one (
Cartoonish violence. Sexual exploitation. Homphobic language. Semi naked women. Big guns. Can any of these things be justified as "satire" any more? In her controversial review of (controvers...
This is a guest post by Georgina Lewis. Georgina has worked with CIDEM (The Centre for Womens Information and Development) and Marie Stopes International in Bolivia, as well as with the Terrence Higg...
Its been four years since songwriter, record producer and performer Santigold released her debut self-titled solo album (or, rather, Santogold, as she was known at the time). As Cazz Blase points out...
In case youve missed some feminist-related news and great posts in the past week, heres a selection of the finest. As usual, add links in the comments section and feel free to begin a discussion on a...
Via the EVAW Coalitions Press Release: Call for awareness campaign, training and bystander intervention A YouGov survey for the End Violence Against Women Coalition published today (25 May) reveals t...
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...
How do you ensure a community is anti-sexist? Its difficult work whatever the community, no less, it turns out, in the polyamorous community. A group of workshop participants, writing anonymously, ha...
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 ...
Charlotte Gage is a Policy Officer at the Womens Resource Centre. She is working with a coalition of womens and human rights organisations to raise the issues affecting women in the UK at an internat...
After Lauras 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 only...
How is it possible for feminists to reconcile these two statements. The first, of course, is Simone de Beauvoirs most famous quote: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." And the sec...
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 tr...
I expect many of you will be familiar with the recent Observer article by Elizabeth Day about philosopher David Benatars claims that "sexism against men is a widespread yet unspoken malaise."...
Heres this weeks round-up of some of the bits around the internet we havent had a chance to blog about. Please add links in the comments section if theres anything you came across that you want to sh...
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 ...
Ive 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...
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 ...
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 wel...
Swedish director Lisa Aschans last years 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). Please...
Arguably the most prestigious (and indisputably most glamorous) film festival in the world opens tomorrow in Cannes, the French Riviera. As it is the Festivals 65th birthday, no-one else but iconic (...
Hi all Heres this weeks round-up of some of the bits around the internet we havent had a chance to blog about. Please add links in the comments section if theres anything you came across that you wan...
One of the few positive things in last weeks Queens speech was the governments promise to introduce new, flexible parental leave, in recognition of the fact that childcare should not be the sole resp...
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) i...
Guest blogger Lottie Prince writes about Moroccan law where rapists can hide behind marriage. 16 year old Aminas parents forced her to marry her rapist to preserve their "dignity", she killed...
This weeks music paste up includes two of the most exciting talents in rock music today in conversation: Tune-Yards and St Vincent. Holly and I were also recently sent a link to a very exciting film ...
feminism► noun [mass noun] the advocacy of womens rights on the ground of equality of the sexes. -ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from French féminisme. feminist► noun a person who supports feminism ►adjecti...
Ive always enjoyed Question Time, but watching it while on Twitter brings a whole new perspective. Following the #bbcqt hashtag means that every aspect of my amusement, fury, skepticism, agreement an...
Are libraries a feminist issue? This is a question that I have been thinking about in the last few weeks. I am due to do a talk at the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention in Manchester a week on Saturd...
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