Articles about Interviews
Inspiring and interesting people.
The long walk to equality
Musician and singer Sabrina Chap talks to Karren Ablaze! about putting the joy in the fight for LGBT rights and how same-sex marriage is by no means the end of the road
Karren Ablaze! // 31 May 2013
Categories: Features, Interviews, Music, Politics and Current Affairs, Sex and Relationships
Being a young mum: representation and reality
Teenage mums are seen as at best, a problem and, at worst, a burden. Izzy Koksal talks to a young mum about the reality of teenage motherhood
Izzy Koksal // 3 April 2013
Categories: Activism, Family, Features, Interviews, Stereotypes
50 years at Ovalhouse
Charlotte Rowland talks to director Deborah Bestwick and performers Rachel Mars and Nat Tarrab, exploring the 50 years of fringe theatre at Ovalhouse
Charlotte Rowland // 8 March 2013
Categories: Features, Interviews
Caring and living in poverty
Suzanna, a lesbian and single mother, currently on benefits, talks to Anastasia Richardson about the effects of poverty
Anastasia Richardson // 4 February 2013
Categories: Activism, Class, Features, Interviews, Politics and Current Affairs
Lucy Anne-Holmes, heroine of the No More Page 3 campaign
Lucy Holmes has been spearheading the campaign to pressurise The Sun to drop the bare boobs from its Page 3. Sarah Edmonds speaks to Lucy about her inspiration and challenges
Sarah Edmonds // 21 January 2013
Categories: Activism, Culture and Media, Features, Feminism, Interviews
Double-give: an interview with Alison Bechdel
An initially daunted Sophie Mayer is heart-stunned by the generous, delightful artist and writer
Sophie Mayer // 10 January 2013
Categories: Interviews
As lesbian space alien as it gets
Selina Robertson reviews New Yorker Madeleine Olnek's debut feature and chats to the director about sci-fi B-movies from the 1950s and the advantages of video over film
Selina Robertson // 21 December 2012
Categories: Culture and Media, Features, Interviews
Ripening, not aging
Artist Suzanne Lacy's 'The Crystal Quilt', currently showing at The Tate Tanks, shares women's experiences of aging. Caitlin Hayward-Tapp talks to her about identifying as a feminist, her performance art and art as activism
Caitlin Hayward-Tapp // 31 July 2012
Categories: Interviews
Heartbreak soup: washed ashore by Boy Friend's Egyptian Wrinkle
Texan all-woman duo Boy Friend occupy the space between shoegazing and post rock with ease. Cazz Blase follows up on her updates on the blog with a review and speaks to the band to find out about their influences and plans
Cazz Blase // 16 March 2012
Categories: Interviews, Music, Reviews
"It's like being in a never ending hen party!" Robots in Disguise play The Lexington
You might recognise them from The Mighty Boosh but electropunk act Robots in Disguise have plenty to offer beyond being cool in a television programme, including a feminist anthem! Hayley Foster da Silva joins the party and catches the band for a quick chat
Hayley Foster da Silva // 12 March 2012
Categories: Interviews, Music, Reviews
Bringing Oregon to Soho: Laura Gibson live
Having checked out Laura Gibson's latest work La Grande, Kaite Welsh heads to The Social to catch a performance and have a chat with the singer
Kaite Welsh // 2 March 2012
Categories: Interviews, Music, Reviews
Challenging rape myths in the mainstream
Emilia di Girolamo, the lead writer on Law and Order: UK, takes an unflinching view of gang rape in the show's next episode. Siân Norris met her to discuss her motivations
Sian Norris // 29 January 2012
Categories: Culture and Media, Interviews, Violence
She gives me fever
Porn is not for everyone: but it can be for feminists, Mia Engberg tells Sophie Mayer, as her programme of shorts screens in London
Sophie Mayer // 13 January 2012
Categories: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Features, Interviews, Sex and Relationships, Work and Play
A man's world? Darryn De La Soul on being a sound engineer
Ruth Rosselson interviews Darryn De La Soul, whose achievements include mixing the sound at the 50th anniversary of the Jodrell Bank observatory, work with Faster than Sound and teaching the live sound diploma for Alchemea
Ruth Rosselson // 9 November 2011
Categories: Features, Interviews, Work and Play
A woman called Toothpaste: an interview with Lucy Whitman
Cazz Blase interviews Lucy Toothpaste, who wrote the fanzine JOLT and played a central role in the punk feminist movement
Cazz Blase // 20 May 2011
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory, Interviews, Magazines, Music
Women in rock: Tamar-kali
Tamar-kali spoke to The F-Word about sexism in the music, feminism and her inspirations
Jess McCabe // 3 May 2011
Categories: Culture and Media, Interviews
'I'm 37 with enough stories for an 80 year old'
Ece Temelkuran's passion for storytelling is clear in the first few minutes of meeting her. But, as a Turkish woman, some stories are dangerous for her to tell. Mary Pole reports
Mary Pole // 10 March 2011
Categories: Herstory, Interviews, Politics and Current Affairs
Punk women write back
Women from the 1970s punk scene in the UK have not stood by as their contributions were erased from the music history books, but have documented that time with their own books and films. Cazz Blase reports
Cazz Blase // 2 January 2011
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory, Interviews
Jonathan Dean: Rethinking contemporary feminist politics
Jonathan Dean's recent academic book Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics analyses the state of contemporary feminism in the UK, and uses The F-Word as a case study. Catherine Redfern invited him to explain more about his findings
Catherine Redfern // 29 September 2010
Categories: Feminism, Interviews
Empowering just one person: An interview with Zoe Margolis
The outspoken feminist and author of Girl With a One Track Mind and Girl With a One Track Mind: Exposed spoke to Catherine Redfern about feminism, sex, activism and writing
Catherine Redfern // 16 September 2010
Categories: Activism, Features, Feminism, Interviews, Sex and Relationships
In conversation with Senzeni Marasela
Last year Senzeni Marasela created an art installation called Jonga: the Museum of Women, Dolls & Memories, in a shop-front in Huntly, Scotland. Here Marasela talks to Claudia Zeiske about Barbie and the ways that beauty standards and pressures impose differently on women of colour and white women
Various Authors // 17 March 2010
Categories: Culture and Media, Fashion and Image, Interviews, Racism, Work and Play
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
Melanie Maddison // 3 March 2009
Categories: Activism, Culture and Media, Feminism, Interviews
Breaking out of the mould
Claire Daly interviews the first editor of pioneering feminist magazine Spare Rib
Claire Daly // 31 January 2008
Categories: Activism, Culture and Media, Feminism, Interviews
The woman behind Persephone Books
Nicola Beauman makes a living from re-printing the forgotten works of female writers. She talks to Cazz Blase about chick lit, the 'surplus' women of the inter-war years and the book trade
Cazz Blase // 31 October 2007
Categories: Culture and Media, Interviews, Work and Play
Carmen out swinging: Sally Potter takes on opera's femme fatale
Most productions of the classic opera Carmen would make a feminist wince. Movie director Sally Potter tells Sophie Mayer about her new adaptation
Sophie Mayer // 4 September 2007
Categories: Culture and Media, Interviews, Racism, Stereotypes
Zines: for when mainstream media lets us down
Feminist blogs are blooming, but many women seeking a creative outlet still turn to hand-made zines. This May, the Women's Library in London will play host to Zine Fest!, showcasing women's zines past and present, as well as providing scissor-and-paper classes for aspiring zinesters. Red Chidgey, who is organising this first-of-a-kind event, explains to Cazz Blase why zines still flourish and picks some of her favourites
Cazz Blase // 29 March 2007
Categories: Activism, Culture and Media, Interviews
Jacky Fleming on drawing for feminism
Jacky Fleming is responsible for one of the most iconic images of the feminist movement - plus a stream of widely-distributed cartoons that poke fun at such unlikely subjects as sexual harassment and the male-dominated workplace, as well as men and relationships. Jess McCabe caught up with her by email
Jess McCabe // 29 March 2007
Categories: Culture and Media, Interviews
From peace camps to protests - Finn Mackay
In the second of a series of interviews with inspiring women, Jess McCabe talks to Finn Mackay, the brains behind the Reclaim the Night marches and the London Feminist Network
Jess McCabe // 3 March 2007
Categories: Feminism, Interviews, Violence
Not a men's club anymore: Antarctica
Antarctica is one of the toughest environments in the world. In the first of a series of interviews with adventurous, inspiring women, Jess McCabe talks to Allie Barden, better known as blogger 'Sandwichgirl'. about visiting the geographic South Pole, penguins and the challenges of working in subzero temperatures.
Jess McCabe // 6 February 2007
Categories: Interviews
Get Your Frock On: An insight into organising a womens' community event
Red Chidgey speaks to Coral and Marie, part of 'The Cailleach Collective', inspirational organisers of Glasgow's 'Frock On!' events.
Red Chidgey // 19 September 2003
Categories: Activism, Interviews
Strictly Feminist: Interview with Amy Prior
Amy Bell talks to the writer and Ladyfest London organiser Amy Prior about her work and her feminism.
Amy Bell // 16 February 2003
Categories: Interviews
Feminist Discussion and Action Group
I was really intrigued when I read about the Bradford feminist discussion and action group in Marion's zine 'Who's That Bitch?' earlier this year. Although the group no longer exists, Marion, Julia, Sally and Judith, all members, agreed to share with The F-Word some more information about it.
Catherine Redfern // 16 August 2002
Categories: Activism, Interviews
Interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson
Amy Bell chats with the director of the Fawcett Society as she prepares to leave the post for pastures new.
Amy Bell // 16 May 2002
Categories: Feminism, Interviews
Interview with Natasha Walter
Natasha Walter is the author of "The New Feminism (1998)" and edited the collection "On the Move: feminism for a new generation (1999)". She is a regular columnist for The Independent, has worked at Vogue and The Guardian, and has appeared on BBC 2's Newsnight Review. Interview by Catherine Redfern.
Catherine Redfern // 16 January 2002
Categories: Interviews
