Category: Feminism
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I can’t afford a cleaner or a gardener but I’m too busy to do cleaning or gardening. My career is based on a fictional social construct and has provided me a set of non-transferable ‘skills’ which would render me completely pointless in the event of an apocalyptic return to the old days.
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By Hilary Hazard I went to Glastonbury this year, as a puppeteer. I’ve been before, on and off since 1997, when I was a skinny middle class white girl and didn’t notice that everyone else there was a skinny middle class white girl too. This year I felt like Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused…
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By Marie Berry Is it contentious to say that men fucked the world up? Is it sexist? What if I said it was overweight middle aged white men in suits from the west, who have systematically fucked the planet from the cosmos down? Is that sizest, sexist, racist, heterophobic? I mean, some of my friends…
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A Slightly Feminist Fairytale by Bisha K. Ali Illustrated by Sam Golin nce upon a time, in the height of summer, when the Sun baked the ground into unyielding hardness and the people whispered in the dark for water, a Queen sat in her palace war rooms, poring over defence tactics with her husband, The…
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By Laura Wilkinson Women of the Miners’ Strike 30 Years On Public Battles, Private Wars came about by accident. I was researching another story idea when I came across an image of a group of women marching down a suburban street. They carried a banner: Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures.
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By Marie Berry I’m in my 30’s and I’ve been married for 4 years now, so people are totally comfortable asking ‘when will you have babies?’ which I always find a bit strange because it feels like they’re saying ‘tell me about your fanny’ Eww fanny.
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By Gemma Parker I was talking to a friend earlier, when this happened:
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Feminist Fatigue by Laura Thomas As a woman in her early twenties, I have the common sense of a toddler and the get-up-and-go of a teenage boy. However, I do wish I were politically active; I dream of quoting philosophers instead of The Simpsons and I long to coherently express rage at social injustices instead…
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By CJ Malone Raising my darling feminist is a bit of a nightmare. I had a quiet word with her teacher to find out what she’s like at school, because at home we find her to be a bit challenging.
LM Kemp 