Feminists: Why you should join Labour to vote Diane

By Lynne Miles | 15 July 2010, 11:25

Diane Abbott is standing for the leadership of the Labour party. She’s the only candidate with a record of activism for social justice. You may not realise you can influence the outcome of the election but you can: even if…

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Women! Know your place!

By Lynne Miles | 24 June 2010, 11:41

New pronouncement from the National Institute for Heath and Clinical Excellence (NICE): all pregnant women should be routinely breath-tested for carbon monoxide to see whether they’re telling the truth about whether they smoke, and how much. Remember, women: you are…

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Abbottmania?

By Lynne Miles | 23 June 2010, 19:23

I’ve been keeping up with the Labour leadership elections recently. We’ve talked about how until Abbott threw her hat in the ring it was a race populated by white men who were apparently very similar in a lot of…

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£1,500 raised: half way there!

By Lynne Miles | 11 June 2010, 15:20

We’ve just received a donation from a kind reader that takes us an amazing half way to our fund-raising target of £3,000 in less than two weeks, the majority of which has come from small donations from individual readers. We…

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SATC2 fail

By Lynne Miles | 4 June 2010, 11:22

*note: trying not to drop any major spoilers, but if you literally don’t want to know anything about this film before you’ve seen it, look away now!* I went to see Sex and the City 2 last Friday, with a…

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Our first £300! Thank you!

By Lynne Miles | 2 June 2010, 12:22

Just now we received a donation which tipped us over the £300 mark, bringing us one tenth of the way to our fund-raising goal, marking the first point on our fund-raising thermometer, and almost half way to our first milestone…

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Object fundraiser comedy gig tomorrow

By Lynne Miles | 18 May 2010, 09:31

Just a quick heads up: OBJECT (Women Not Sex Objects) are having a comedy fundraiser tomorrow night, Wednesday 19th, which is being compered by TFW guest blogger Kate Smurthwaite, she of Cruella-blog. It’s in the Comedy Pub, Piccadilly at 7.30….

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Cameron’s cabinet - spot the difference

By Lynne Miles | 12 May 2010, 10:59

Update: err, oops. I seem to have been writing this at the same time as Jess was writing hers, but she pipped me to the post. Sorry, Jess! Update #2: (what I think is) the full cabinet has now been…

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Questions over Supreme Court nominee’s race equality credentials

By Lynne Miles | 12 May 2010, 09:55

President Obama has announced Elena Kagan as nominee for his second judicial appointment to the US Supreme Court. If confirmed by Congress, Kagan would be his second female appointment to the court (his previous appointment was Sonia Sotomayor who was…

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Thinking about voting?

By Lynne Miles | 6 May 2010, 12:04

Obviously, along with most people, my mind is on polls, voting, and the exercise of democratic rights today. It got me thinking about the women’s suffrage movement, and realising that I don’t know a great deal about it. Distracted from…

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Welcome to May’s guest bloggers!

By Lynne Miles | 3 May 2010, 20:44

I’m pleased to introduce our guest bloggers for this month: Alicia, and Lucy Inmonger. First up is Alicia: Alicia is a postgraduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has been blogging for about two…

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Calling Leeds-based Feminists

By Lynne Miles | 21 April 2010, 11:03

We have received the following email from Rosie - all those who are interested in getting together should get in touch via Facebook or turn up to the inaugural meeting: There is some very exciting work to establish a Leeds…

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Rape and more rape

By Lynne Miles | 7 April 2010, 18:44

Two quick stories I’ve been meaning to bring up: Three men in Newham are thought to be the first to be arrested under the new Clause 13, which criminalises men who pay for sex with trafficked sex workers. Although this…

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Election called: What About Women?

By Lynne Miles | 6 April 2010, 17:28

Well as you’ll no doubt have heard, the election was called today and will be held on May 6th as expected. In the run up to the big day, Fawcett have been doing some really interesting campaigning tracking the policies…

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Peston picks on Gordon

By Lynne Miles | 9 March 2010, 13:37

Robert Peston, business editor of the BBC, thinks that: “the dearth of women at the top must surely be depriving the UK of incremental income at a time when we need every penny we can squeeze to pay our way…

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Calling feminists in Yorkshire …

By Lynne Miles | 5 March 2010, 11:11

We received this from the HOPE not hate campaign: “To mark International Women’s Day the HOPE not hate campaign is taking to the streets of Yorkshire on Saturday 6 March to explain why the BNP is not the party for…

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International Women’s Day, Million Women Rise, and trans inclusion

By Lynne Miles | 3 March 2010, 11:31

This weeekend is the closest to International Women’s Day (which actually falls on Monday) and so there’s a fantastic range of events planned focused on and around women. If you want to find out about the hundreds of events going…

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Reminder: you are no more than your uterine potential

By Lynne Miles | 26 February 2010, 07:54

For me, the biggest problem with denying women access to safe, legal abortion is in the terrible risk to their health it presents. And the realisation (which sneaks up to put you ‘back in your place’ when you occasionally forget…

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F-worders: challenge the politicians!

By Lynne Miles | 21 January 2010, 16:49

Eaves are holding a pre-election Question Time for Women on the 16th March, where 2,000 people will have the chance to submit questions to the Ministers for Women about their policies on women’s issues. We’re going, and will report back…

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