Contributors

A list of the wonderful people who write for The F-Word.

Abby O'Reilly: No porn is good porn?; Abby Lee - girl with (not just) a one-track mind; Yummy-mummy or pramface?; Flicking the Bean; Review: Psychologies; Declaration of Independence; Review: First Magazine
Abi M: From 'oy sexy' to 'frigid bitch' in 30 seconds; Skinny porn
Aideen Johnston: Review: Kill Bill
Ailsa: Review: Mooncup; Review: Good Housekeeping; Review: Response to Lesbians: ignored by mainstream female culture?; Review: Lesbians: ignored by mainstream female culture?
Ala Abbas: Losing my hijab
Alex: Walking with Cavemen
Alex Brew: How do I look in this, on this, doing this, with this...?; Walking on eggshells
Alex Gibson: Why men should care about gender stereotypes
Alexandra M Kokoli: Review: What not to watch; Review: Strangeland; Review: Not all girls (want to) go to Fendi paradise
Alexandra Roumbas Goldstein: Review: Bluestockings
Alice Lawlor: Review: Sex and the Substitutes
Alix Brodie: Review: Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
Allison McCarthy: Review: Feminism and Peter Pan
Amica Lane: The professional masquerade
Amity Reed: Review: The Noughtie Girl's Guide to Feminism; Not a happy birthday; Maid of the manor
Amy Bell: Strictly Feminist: Interview with Amy Prior; The Lowdown on Ladyfest; Interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson
Amy Clare: Review: The Perfect Vagina
Ananya: So, you really think we're stupid, do you?
Andrew Bowden
Andy Roberts: Reproductive freedom in the UK.
Angela Brant: A worthwhile women's day
Angela Everitt: The Name of the Game
Anji Capes: Stripping the illusion...
Anna Corbett: Confessions of a brand new feminist
Anna Fioravanti: Review: Kylie Minogue; Review: Lady Roxana; Review: The Hours
Anna Sandfield: Body Language Speaks Volumes; Review: Women Who Wrock; Review: Ani DiFranco - Royal Festival Hall, June 2003; Review: Holy Trinity - female characters in The Matrix: Reloaded
Anna-Kate: Feminist progress: undermined by the media?
Anne Onne: Men! Feminism needs you! (Not your privilege...)
Annika Spalding: Whose feminism is it?
Antonia Strachey: Miss LSE or Miss-ogyny?
Aoife McBride: Grrl Activistas - an introduction
Bellavita: Review: Embarrassing Teenage Bodies advocates cosmetic labiaplasty
Ben Drake: Review: Sexism and the System
Ben Thurgood: Sexual Healing
Beth Anderson: Handbags and Gladrags; There is no Groom; Review: Watching the Detectives; Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Bods: Real Men Drink Pints
Caitlin Brown: Feminism and the vampire novel
Carolyn Roberts: Beyond boob jobs – how might the credit crunch affect women?
Carrie Dunn: TV for men; The media has failed women's football
Carrie Supple: How to organise a demonstration
Carter-Ann Mahdavi: It's rude to point: blame culture's easy way out
Catherine Gillespie: Review: Diva
Catherine Redfern (Editor 2001-2007, Founder): Review: Peaches - Impeach My Bush; Review: Girl With a One Track Mind - Abby Lee; Review: Subtext Magazine; Review: Verge Magazine; Review: Sex and The Married Girl; Ordinary Ads, Everyday Images; Important note for all readers; Review: Taking Charge of Your Fertility; Review: Refusing to Be a Man; 'Feminists are Sexist'; The F-Word: Contemporary UK Feminism; Review: Moon Mammas: fleece menstrual pads; Is this website discriminating? Responses; Review: Ka-ching, bling bling, ching ching - women sing about money; Review: You're a 44-year old man: the Michael Jackson Interview; I Love The 70s; A Third Wave?; Feminist Discussion and Action Group; Review: Return of the zines; Review: Ms Dynamite - It Takes More; Review: Inappropriate Behaviour: Prada Sucks! and other Demented Descants; Review: Not for Girls? The Yorkie and Echo Adverts; Review: Cooks and Campaigners; Review: Zine Reviews - the sequel; Fighting Back: self defence for women and girls; The Spice Girls; The Freedom Trashcan 2002; Happy Birthday to Us!; The Biological Clock; Review: Zine Reviews; Review: Jar Openers; Interview with Natasha Walter; Review: First episode of Star Trek: Enterprise; Pornography; Rebranding Feminism; Is this website discriminating?; Review: Chica; Confessions of a Failed Fashionista; Review: Bitch; Enough with the pendulum!; 'Just call me Bob.'; Letters; Review: Bitch; Review: Trouble and Strife; Review: Eve's Back; Review: The First Fifty: Munro-Bagging Without a Beard; Margaret Thatcher; Why Irma Kurtz is wrong about rape; Review: Lil-lets Heatsoother for Period Pain; Review: Nova; Review: AMPminizine; Election 2001; Fawcett briefing on women and voting; Review: The British Woman Today: a qualitative survey of the images in women's magazines; Review: In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution; Review: Misogynies; The Signs of Ageing; Pick 'n' Mix Feminism; Equality Quiz; Review: The Gilrlfrenzy Millenial; Review: The Curse; Review: The Vagina Monologues; Review: Curvaceous; The Personal is (or) isn't political (or is it?); 'The Eminem defence'?; Teenagers and Cosmetic Surgery; Review: Hardcore; Review: Overloaded : Popular culture and the future of feminism; Review: Where The Girls Are; The Beauty Myth; Review: BUST; Review: Ms.; The Morning After; How To Create a Woman's Glossy Magazine in Five Minutes; Review: As If; Review: Daria; Review: Boy Meets Girl; I'm not a feminist, but...
Catherine Redfern (Editor 2001-2007, Founder): Review: Sex and the City the movie: Having your (wedding) cake and eating it
Cathryn Dagger: The New Breastfeeding Taboo
Cazz Blase: Writing women back into punk; Women in punk: 'Too Good To Be Forgotten'; Review: Uglies; Review: 'Freedom always has a price'; Review: Tales of low-paid work; Review: Live Alone and Like It; Review: An interrupted life; The woman behind Persephone Books; Crinolines and corsets... again; Zines: for when mainstream media lets us down; Review: Trickster's Choice / Trickster's Queen - Tamora Pierce; Review: The Gossip - Manchester July 2006; Review: Roger Fishbite; But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 4; But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 3; But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 2; But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 1; Review: Troy; Review: Searching For Sense And Reason; Review: Interview with Lucy O'Brien
Charlotte Cooper: Review: The Wisdom of Whores; Feminism in London 2009
Chloe Emmott: Can burlesque be feminist?
Christina McDermott: Review: Picking Bones from Ash
Cila Warncke: Britney Spears, daddy's little girl?
Claire Daly: Breaking out of the mould
Claire McGowan: Fear Factor; The Food of Love?
Clare Burgess: Girls in the lead; Review: Like Mother, Like Daughter?; Review: Smelling of Roses?; Review: How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild And Got A Life
Clare Gould: Piggy banks and budget cuts; Review: Raising boys? Help yourself to some gender stereotypes
Clare Laxton: Domestic violence and disabled women; Abortion and disability - whose voices are heard?
Clare Riley: Bad Mothers
Collette: Review: Paper Dolls: Searching for Women within Kerrang Magazine
Dawn Kofie: Review: The Virgin Daughters; Review: How to Look Good Naked; Review: Loose Women; Review: Observer Woman
Debi Crow: Across the porn divide
debi withers: Adventures in self-publishing; Review: Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word); Review: Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness / Raciality; Review: Her Naked Skin; Review: Fragments from the Dark
Deborah McAlister: The future of activism
Diane Shipley: Review: Men!
Dina Jose: Fairy Tales are Grimm
Dwysan Edwards: Rape - is it our fault?; Review: The Pursuit of Happyness
E Baeza: Lament for Sisterhood
Ealasaid Gilfillan: Men and Children First; Review: Feminism: A Very Short Introduction; The Appliance of Science; Review: Make Me a Perfect Wife; Sports Illustrated; Review: Taming of the Shrew
Eeva Berglund: Built for women
Eirwen-Jane Pierrot: For the good of the species?
Ekis: How to get an activist movement to keep women in prostitution
Eleanor M.: Review: Baby Beauty Queens
Eleanor Turner: A Bride by Any Other Name
Ella Alexander: From the front lines
Ellery: Pretending That Men Aren't Grown-Ups; Review: King Arthur; Review: Pictures Are Not Everything: A Response to 'My Foetus'
Emma Chaplin: A hairy dilemma
Emma Cosh: Why Not Feminism?
Emma Hadfield: I did it my way; The Mechanics of Femininity; Gifts for Her
Emma Wood: How not to write your policy on transgender rights; Review: Is Tarantino really feminist?
Fay Bound Alberti: Sex and the Music Video
Finn Mackay: Surf's Up! In praise of the second wave; From Greenham to Menwith: The women's peace campaign at Menwith Hill
Frances Downey: Women in physics
Francine Hoenderkamp: Turn your back on Page 3
Geethika Jayatilaka: Rebranding Feminism? Geethika Jayatilaka's talk
Gemma Sharpe: Review: Body of Work
Gemma Wearing: Buying gunk
George Mason: Review: The circle of expectations; Suffering in Silence
Glencora Bailey: Review: 'Backlash: The Hidden War on Women in the UK' - 1st Nov 2006, London; Review: Girls Like Us vs. Diva
Gloria Dawson: High heels with a pointe
Hannah Whittaker: Glamour models made me sick
Harriet Reuter Hapgood: Skirting the issue
Heather McIntosh: Bring the herstory of riot grrrl back into the present
Helen Clarke: Sexual Harassment is Not Trivial
Helen Dring: Feminism and fat
Helen G: Trans 101; A period of transition
Helen Watling: Review: Le Tigre - London Astoria, May 2002
Holly Combe: Review: He's Just Not That Into You; Who's The Man?; Review: Scarlet Magazine; Review: Frank - Amy Winehouse; Review: The Boy; 25 Burning Questions; Smug Intentions: Richard and Judy on Chivalry; Pretty Vacant; Bend Over Girls - he's in Freak Mode
Ilona Jasiewicz: Re-classifying rape
Indigo Black: Review: The Be Good Tanyas - Bristol Bierkeller, March 2003
Irina Lester: Abortion: still a feminist issue; Review: One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
Itala Attieh: Review: Sexuality and sainthood
Jamie Lee Merrick: Get Mad
Jane Collins: Alien She?
Jane Purcell: Feeling a bit uncomfortable?
Janet Evans: Review: Pinch these off your mum's bookshelf!; Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
JC Sutcliffe: Review: The Feminine Mistake; The farmer wants a wife, the wife wants a wife
Jen Clarke: Reply to Nigel Planer
Jennifer Drew: Knife crime and masculinity; Are women and girls vulnerable?; The epidemic of male violence against women; How the word 'slut' oppresses women; Does 'gender neutral' language serve to cover up male violence?; Sexual healing?; Review: If... Women Ruled the World (review 2); Dysfunctional, moi? The Myth of Female Sexual Dysfunction and its Medicalisation; Response to 'Alien She?'
Jennifer Gray: Time to end parental leave discrimination
Jennifer Thomson: Review: Girl Power?
Jess McCabe (Editor 2007-): Review: Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century; Review: The Equality Illusion; Bright Star and women in film; Review: The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet; Review: He's a stud, she's a slut?; Ask a feminist - The F Word problem page; The F Word Podcast - episode three!; Ask a feminist - The F Word problem page; Review: It's So You; Review: Revolution Girl Style Now!; The F Word Podcast - episode two!; Review: Get your toe bypass here; The F Word podcast: episode one!; A feminist guide to ballet; Jacky Fleming on drawing for feminism; From peace camps to protests - Finn Mackay; Not a men's club anymore: Antarctica; Review: Uplift Magazine; Review: The Politics of the Tampon Case; Review: North Country; Review: The Descent; Review: Le Tigre - London Astoria, April 2004
Jessica Bateman: A Real Alternative?
Jessica Burton: On kickboxing, women's aggression and self-defence
Jessica Gjergji: Review: Lighting a fire
Jessica Metheringham: The place of the 'Female Vote' in politics
Jo Knowles: Review: Desperate Housewives; Not my Cup of T: slogans on women's T-shirts; Crime and Punishment: Maxine Carr and other 'evil women'; Cutting Women Down to Size
Jo Legg: Crime and patriarchy
Joanna Tocher: Review: Lust, Caution; Review: Who's to Say Who Understands Us?
Joanna Whitehead: How many lesbians does it take to sell a t-shirt?
JoJo Kirtley: All About Eve
Jonathan Dean: Reasons to be Cheerful
Josefin Skullbacka: Review: WAG do you want to be when you grow up?
K* Harknett: Review: Nuts and Zoo Weekly
Kadie Armstrong: Stand Up For Equality
Kaite Welsh: Review: Hello Kitty Must Die; Review: The Fossil Hunter; Review: Mysteries of the Iconographies
Karen Gregory: Review: The Politics of Breastfeeding
Kate Allen: Taboo For Who?; Page 3 - Ban It!; Diet Grrrl - Feminism and Women's Magazines
Kate Joester: Breastfeeding: radical, feminist and good for you
Kate Smurthwaite: Review: Big Sister
Kate Townshend: Gender in the playground; War of Words
Katherine: Female commentator kicks off barrage of sexism
Katherine Lubar: Review: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Katie Muller: F.A.T.; Filling the hole
Kelly Draper: What Not To ~~Wear~~ say to your co-worker
Kerry-Lynne Doyle: Don't cha wish pop was more empowering?
Kery Saegert: Review: Natural deodorants
Kirsty McHugh: Review: The First Person and Other Stories
Kit Roskelly: HPV vaccination - the debate isn't over yet; Kink 101; A slice-by-slice attack on women's right to choose
Kristin Aune: Whatever happened to sisterhood?; Big Brother, Virgins, and Female Singleness
Kristine Bergstrom: Mama's mop and Bachelor's soup
L: Breaking the circle
Lara McKinnon: It Ain't Over Till It's Over
Lara Williams: Some body to love
Laura Baldwin: Why It's time for the 'battle of the sexes' to end
Laura Carr: Why men suck (and the women who have to)
Laura Doherty: Review: Miss Naked Beauty UK: more degrading than Miss World?
Laura Kidd: Review: Ladies Rock! London
Laura Thomas: A streamlined new me
Laura Wadsworth: Feminine Feminism
Laura Wirtz: Review: Osama (review 2)
Laura Woodhouse: Review: Women in Chile: Moving towards equality (but only if you look the part); Review: Sin City
Laurie Penny: Moving towards solidarity; Review: Beyond Noughtie Girls; The Oxbridge sex workers; Of corset matters; Against censorship; Where the size-zero debate goes awry
Leanne Bibby: Review: Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
Leonie Brooke: Keeping It Real
Lindsay: Review: Hairy Women; Bloody Disgrace; Review: Citibank Photography Prize 2003
Lindsay and Francesca Levy: Review: Lilya 4-Ever; Support Our Boys
Lindsey M Sheehan: Review: Haunted?
Lizzie Garcha: Men in feminism
LonerGrrrl: Review: Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
Lorraine Douglas: Review: Velvet Magazine; Review: Mslexia; The UK Press - Time for a change
Lorraine Smith: The 'Right' Time for Motherhood?; Review: The Apprentice; Review: 365 Days of Sensational Sex; Hollywood Women; Review: Not a Victim - Stephanie Pakrul; Review: Reversals; The Feminist Minefield?; Review: Be Unlimited; Review: Christina Aguilera - Can't Hold Us Down; Driven to Distraction; Review: More Sex Tips for Girls; Ball breaking? Coming out of the feminism closet.; Review: This is Rockbitch; Review: Grease; Review: 24; Body Image
Lorraine Smith and Ms Razorblade: Review: $pread Magazine
Louise Livesey: Million Women Rise - Reflections; Review: Rape: an unfinished revolution; Review: A modern maiden?; Why replication isn't subversion; How Everyday It Is
Louise Whittle: Left behind?
Lucy Gollogly: Review: One Beat - Sleater Kinney; Review: Response to 'Under Your Skin'; Review: Under Your Skin
Lucy Wilkins: Women Are Not In Fashion
Lydia Harris: Review: The Raincoats play the National Portrait Gallery
Lyn Cicada: Response to 'Rebranding Feminism'; Response to 'The Signs of Ageing'
Maggie Lee: 'The useless organ'
Maria Roberts: Coitophobia: who do you trust?
Maria Seijo-Richart: Review: Munich
Marianne Cupit: Your Face Is Your Fortune
Marion Beach: Show Girls: The State of
Mary Ellen Flynn: Review: Nell
Matthew Provost: Stopping violence against women at its primary root
Maxine Frances: Real Female Heroines
Meera Palia: Review: If... Women Ruled the World (review 1)
Megan: Contraception and Control - Teenage Rights
Melanie Dunn: More than just 'Jam and Jerusalem': why we should join the Women's Institute
Melanie Maddison: Grassroots feminism 2.0?
Melanie Newman: Review: Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism; Review: Feminist or misogynist?; Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Mhairi Guild: In our satin tights, fighting for our rights! But are women really natural campaigners?
Michelle Jenkin: Review: Garbage - Manchester Apollo, April 2002; Review: Model Behaviour
Michelle Wright: Review: Hellions: Pop Culture's Rebel Women; Review: On the herstory of feminist coalitions; The problem with pink; Girls Aloud, beauty secrets and lies; Where's the real war on terror?; Under the Knife; Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Milly Shaw: Review: The York Lesbian Arts Festival 2008; Review: Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities
Missmogga: What's Up Baby?
Molly Lavender: Calendar girls; Now That's What I Call Misogyny!
Ms Razorblade: Review: The Incredibles; Review: The Ethics of Sex Toys - Part 2; Review: The Ethics of Sex Toys - Part 1; Growing up or giving in?
Myriam Francois-Cerrah: Coherent feminism doesn't stop at Afghani women
Name Supplied: Diet Grrrl: An Example
Natalie Davis: A question of (sexism in) sport
Natalie Smith: Review: FHM Music Channel
Natasha Forrest: Just a Stripper; Review: The Stepford Wives; Where is the F word not an F word?; Review: Wife Swap; Where are the Radicals?; Whose Slut?; Review: Pop Idol; Review: Ally McBeal
Niamh Devlin: Response to 'The Biological Clock'
Nichi Hodgson: Hair today, mad tomorrow
Nicky Raynor: Sick of Celebrity; Review: Tales of a Librarian - Tori Amos
Nino: Self harm; Hip hop ladies
Paul Brown: Review: The Great Big Glorious (Sexist) Book for Girls
Penni F: Why my son wears pink
Posie Rider: Pity in Pink
Rachael Halemor: Confidential?
Rachael Hawkins: The Experiences of Young Women in Science
Rachel Bell: 'I'm no sad victim. I've seen and survived the darkest side of life'; Challenging The 'Sex Sells' Cliche; Women Unite, Reclaim the night!; Review: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Subvert the Dominant Pimpiarchy
Rachel E: Every Girl Wants a Stalker
Rachel Harris-Gardiner: Review: We Are The Pipettes - The Pipettes
Rachel Thwaites: Gender and sentencing
Rebecca Heller: Edinburgh gets ready to Reclaim the Night
Red Chidgey: Review: How to survive and thrive as a creative professional for hire; Review: Cunning Stunts: women's theatre in the 1970s and '80s; Review: Loving outside the line of monogamy: Tristan Taormino's new guide to open relationships; Labours left unfinished: third wave feminism; Get Your Frock On: An insight into organising a womens' community event
Rhona-Mairead Sweeting: Do It Yourself? How about Do It Ourselves
Rosa: Attention Seeker
Rosalyn Ball: Dreaming of a Pink Christmas
Rosamund Urwin: Review: 300 Spartans and one strong broad
Rose Hypnol: Review: Rollergirls are go!
Rosjke Hasseldine: Why are women so critical of each other?; Lifting the veil on mothers and daughters
Ruth Moss: Sisters! Some of us are mothers, too!; When did it go so tits up?
Ruthie Samuel: UK feminists must address worldwide issues
S: Painful vagina? Your poor husband!
Sabre: Review: 'The Trouble with Islam Today'
Samantha Jay: 'Who... me? I'm just a housewife'
Samantha Lyster: A Perfect Delusion
Samara Ginsberg: 'Hasn't anybody ever told you a handful is enough?'; 'Honey! Your vagina needs a mint'; First impressions
Sandrine Levêque: Challenging sex object culture: definitely needed, definitely lively and definitely a key issue for 2009!; Come on Boris, what you got?
Sarah C L: Review: Janes In Love
Sarah Levack: Stink bombing the beauty pagaent
Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams: In the name of the father...; Mind Your Language; World Cup WAGs
Sarah New: Feminism and Popular Culture
Sarah Parry: Uncovering The Internet Art Revolution; Review: The Spice Girls' Legacy
Selina Jervis: Alright darlin'
Shaira Kadir: Stepford Wives in Training?
Shelley Rees: Review: X-Men: The Last Stand; Review: Make Me Perfect
Sheryl Plant: Oh, Mr Darcy!; Review: 'Men Are Back' - but where did they go?; Deconstructing Masculinity; Review: Grazia Magazine
Sian Norris: Review: Daphne Du Maurier's feminist fairy tales; Review: The Hour Past Midnight; Review: Dirt: Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House
Siún Carden: Where the 1967 Abortion Act doesn't apply
Sophie Mayer: Carmen out swinging: Sally Potter takes on opera's femme fatale
Sophie Platt: What a load of wank
Sue Gilbert: Review: Women's art in Paris: elles@centrepompidou; Review: Tracey, Tomma and the Turner conspiracy
Sue Schofield: IT's a man's world?
Susan Hunter: New Rights, Old Wrongs
Tamlyn Monson: Review: The Sexual Life of Catherine M; Review: Women and War; Review: Osama (review 1); Review: Rankin and Bailey Down Under
Tara Atluri: Olive would have told me to shut up and do something
Terese Jonsson: Piercing the whitening silence
Theadora Jean: Could Britney Spears be the feminist icon of our generation?
Various Authors: In conversation with Senzeni Marasela; Review: Women; On sisterhood; We're all in this together; It's only a bloody tampon; Ask a feminist - The F-Word problem page; Review: Female Chauvinist Pigs; Take Back The Streets; Resolution = Revolution!; Responses to Bloody Disgrace; Review: Feminist Must-Reads; More responses to 'Whose Slut?'; More responses to 'The Biological Clock'; Response to 'Whose Slut?'
Veronica Wood-Querales: What does the politics of hair say about modern Britain?
Victoria Al-Sharqi: Choice and disability
Victoria Dutchman-Smith: Why feminists shouldn't have to keep mum; Incitement to rape; Is alcohol really a feminist issue?; Are you married? If not, why not?
Wisrutta Atthakor: A gude cause maks a strong arm; Review: Edinburgh Ladyfest 2009; The woman engineer: are we really that incompetent?; A woman... and a geek?
Yasmin Eshref: Review: Creative writing at The Women's Library
Yvonne Howard: Cartoon special...
Contributors to the News section (2001-2003): Sara Vali; Jacquelyn Arnold; Amy Bell; George; Marna Gilligan

top ^

Contributors

Inside this section

Main Navigation

Contributors

Search The F-Word

Inside this section

Main Navigation