Racism
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
Published: 17 March 2010 | Written by Various Authors
Feminism and the vampire novel
Much has been written about sexism in the Twilight books and film. Here, Caitlin Brown puts the series in context of other popular vampire fiction
Published: 8 September 2009 | Written by Caitlin Brown
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 | Written by Terese Jonsson
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 | Written by Tara Atluri
Challenging sex object culture: definitely needed, definitely lively and definitely a key issue for 2009!
A recent feature in The Times labelled protests against the Miss University London beauty pagaents "old fashioned". But, argues Sandrine Levêque, if anything campaigns against the objectification of women and girls are more relevant today than ever
Published: 4 January 2009 | Written by Sandrine Levêque
Whose feminism is it?
Is feminism reaching women of colour? How about women who didn't go to university, teenage mums, or women who do not have access to the internet? Annika Spalding calls for change
Published: 22 September 2008 | Written by Annika Spalding
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
Published: 4 September 2007 | Written by Sophie Mayer
What does the politics of hair say about modern Britain?
Racism and sexism are intertwined - so feminism must tackle them both head-on, says Veronica Wood-Querales
Published: 30 August 2007 | Written by Veronica Wood-Querales

