Articles from March 2008
Comments from February 2008
All your comments from February
Jess McCabe // 17 March 2008
Categories: Comments
Trans 101
Helen G sets out a glossary of common terms and definitions
Helen G // 17 March 2008
Categories: Language
How to get an activist movement to keep women in prostitution
What use are sex worker groups that give out condoms and showers, but can't help women who want to exit prostitution? Ekis reports from Barcelona on prostitution and the campaign for legalisation
Ekis // 16 March 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Feminism, Language, Politics and Current Affairs, Sex and Relationships, Violence, Work and Play
Where the 1967 Abortion Act doesn't apply
Women in Northern Ireland must still cross the water to get an abortion, and even setting out the law in an accessible form is controversial. Siún Carden reports
Siún Carden // 13 March 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Politics and Current Affairs
Live Alone and Like It
Does advice for the single women of 1936 have any bearing today? Cazz Blase reviews Marjorie Hillis' guide to independent living
Cazz Blase // 12 March 2008
Categories: Books
'I'm no sad victim. I've seen and survived the darkest side of life'
Amina pairs women who have experienced sexual violence with volunteers who have been through the same ordeal - and turns their perceived 'victim' status on its head. Rachel Bell reports
Rachel Bell // 10 March 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Violence
Labours left unfinished: third wave feminism
The third wave and riot grrrl may be inspiring, but risk ignoring feminist history and swapping radical action for gigs and zines. In a fiery essay, Red Chidgey poses some difficult questions
Red Chidgey // 10 March 2008
Not a happy birthday
Threatened, intimidated, bullied, violated: this is hospital birth as many mothers experience it. Amity Reed reports on the little-recognised crime of birth rape
Amity Reed // 7 March 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Violence
