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New piece on CiF - 'Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue'
Just a quick note to say I've got a new piece up on Comment is Free, Population control is not what makes climate change a feminist issue. (Edit: Vikki Chowney has posted a nice follow-up about an Oxfam event which...
Published: 2 November 2009
Why climate change will hit women hardest
If you've walked past a newsagent today, you have no doubt noticed The Independent's headline: "The Earth today stands in imminent peril". Of course, the headline refers to the threat of climate change, and specifically a warning by six US...
Published: 19 June 2007
Why wind turbines are feminist
Today is Blog Action Day, which sees tens of thousands of bloggers take a breather from writing purely about, say, vegan recipes, their day-to-day existences, or, um, feminism, to show how environmental issues are relevant to their readerships. Actually, I...
Published: 15 October 2007
Getting gender on the table at international climate change negotiations
GenderCC has produced an excellent video on the activism they did at the international climate change negotiations* in Poland, last December. The uphill struggle in getting this done is phenomenal, trust me: GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice from Ulrike...
Published: 17 March 2009
'Genderblind' doesn't cut it - the climate change edition
One of the challenges faced by feminists is getting across the fact that gender affects more than just issues like violence against women, pay equity, media representations. Indeed, feminists are often hard pressed to get people to recognise that even...
Published: 14 June 2008
Women from the Global South speak out about Climate Change
Hear from activists on how climate change affects women. More info here: Floods, Drought, Pollution and Survival: Women from the Global South speak out about Climate Change Hear first hand from women in countries such as Bolivia, Guyana, India, Uganda...
Published: 27 January 2009
Photos from Asian women's climate quilt parade at UN talks
People's Action on Climate Change have posted a gallery of fantastic photos from the Asian Women's Quilt Parade that took place today at the UN climate talks in Bangkok. More about the project from the press release: Asian grassroots...
Published: 1 October 2009
Climate change, suffragettes, direct action
Climate change is a big problem. Direct action aimed at encouraging the government, and society in general, to do more to cut our greenhouse gas emissions is crucial. So, a big thumbs up on that score to the Climate Rush:...
Published: 30 September 2008
Women still under-represented in climate debate
Out of 146 national delegations at the UN climate talks on Tuesday, only seven were headed by women. Oxfam says this is an example of how women's voices are still absent from the debate on climate change and what to...
Published: 24 September 2009
Women and climate change
Climate change policy should be changed to reflect the greater impact it will have on women, argues Bojana Stoparic over on AlterNet. The argument goes like this: in a natural disaster, women are more vulnerable than men, at least in...
Published: 10 July 2006
Earth Day and feminism
Yesterday was Earth Day across the pond, a day established in 1970 to foster awareness of the Earth's environment. (Global Earth Day was on the March equinox). No, this isn't another moan about the general failure to consider the links...
Published: 23 April 2009
Clinton "sounds like a bitch"
Hilary Clinton should not become the next president of the US because her voice makes her sound like a "bitch". Or so says Glenn Beck, a right-wing radio DJ, recently hired by CNN. Because what America needs is more misogynist...
Published: 16 March 2007
GM boss - electric car will help score "no makeup" women
[EDIT: OK, that was the wrong video! Sorry folks - something's wrong with the site, and it embedded the wrong clip, but if you go here you can watch it] Bob Lutz, chair of General Motors, is a climate change...
Published: 29 September 2008
'Industrial revolution' of marriage all for the best
So-called "family values" have come to be the byword of social conservatives concerned with pulling back free-ranging social change and returning us to a time when women were women and men were men. And they were married to each other....
Published: 21 July 2005
I am not an ifeminist
What, you might ask, is an ifeminist? Is it a feminist autobot, come to replace your humble human bloggers completely? Well, no. It's an individualist feminist. According to ifeminists.com: As the cost of freedom, ifeminists accept personal responsibility for their...
Published: 20 September 2006
Harnessing the power of the sun/catastrophic climate change/women's bodies to advertise bras?
Bra-maker Triumph International is "demonstrating" the solar-powered bra. By "demonstrating", of course I mean "shamelessly hopping on the green bandwagon for PR, because bras are worn under clothing and therefore not actually good collectors of sunlight" - as Treehugger and,...
Published: 15 May 2008
9 inspiring examples of women's climate activism
Here is a list of nine fantastic and inspiring examples of feminist and women's activism on climate change and environmental issues, put together in honour of Blog Action Day 2009. When I participated back in 2007, I set out why...
Published: 16 October 2009
Gist or Gette: how effective is direct action?
I've been ruminating on 'direct action' more than usual over the last few weeks. It was promted during my participation in Awaaz's G20 march, and then hung out at the G20 protests. I had quite opposite experiences at each...
Published: 16 April 2009
I HATE Jeremy Clarkson
There are some things that just need saying. I HATE Jeremy Clarkson. Phew, now I've said it. Maybe it seems harsh of me to single him out from a number of car show presenters and general public personalities. I feel...
Published: 26 May 2008
Earth Day for feminists
Today is Earth Day. I feel like I bang on all the time about the interconnectedness of environment and gender oppression (most recently here). And only yesterday, the UN released a report warning that large-scale production of biofuels (substituting petrol...
Published: 22 April 2008

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