Features

Piercing the whitening silence

Terese Jonsson calls for all white feminists (herself included) to step up to the plate on racism and white privilege

Published: 16 March 2009 | Category: Activism, Feminism, Racism | Written by Terese Jonsson

Grassroots feminism 2.0?

Want to make connections with grassroots feminist activists across borders and languages? Melanie Maddison talks to Red Chidgey about an online project that aims to help us do just that

Published: 3 March 2009 | Category: Activism, Culture and Media, Feminism, Interviews | Written by Melanie Maddison

Olive would have told me to shut up and do something

Tara Atluri reflects on the Do You Remember Olive Morris? project and the Remembering Olive Collective

Published: 2 March 2009 | Category: Feminism, Racism | Written by Tara Atluri

Reviews

'The Trouble with Islam Today'

Sabre reviews Irshad Manji's controversial book which challenges some of the ways Islam is practiced

Published: 18 March 2009 | Category: Books | Written by Sabre

Miss Naked Beauty UK: more degrading than Miss World?

Laura Doherty reviews a show that promised to fight impossible beauty standards, but fell into all the same traps as a beauty paegent

Published: 13 March 2009 | Category: Television | Written by Laura Doherty

Hellions: Pop Culture's Rebel Women

Why are white, young, male 'rebels' celebrated and revered in pop culture, while women who push against society's sexist and racist norms are marginalised and dismissed? Michelle Wright reviews a book which brings to light stories of the female rebel

Published: 13 March 2009 | Category: Books | Written by Michelle Wright