Articles by Joanna Whitehead
Mansfield 66/67: a punchline too far?
Jayne Mansfield’s memory is mud in this tacky and tasteless documentary about her life and early demise, laments Joanna Whitehead
Joanna Whitehead // 1 May 2018
“I will never, ever stop asking for trans people to be treated with basic dignity”
Joanna Whitehead speaks to the inimitable activist Paris Lees about feminism, class and how trans rights are human rights
Joanna Whitehead // 12 April 2018
Categories: Activism, Class, Culture and Media, Features, Interviews, Politics and Current Affairs, Stereotypes, Violence
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Joanna Whitehead // 22 March 2018
Categories: Blog
Listen without prejudice?
Joanna Whitehead reviews Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them, a collection of essays exploring misogyny in music
Joanna Whitehead // 22 January 2018
Welcome to our new fiction editor
We welcome our new fiction editor
Joanna Whitehead // 8 January 2018
Categories: Blog
Language matters, Virgin
Joanna Whitehead despairs at Virgin Trains' double hit of sexism in response to a customer's grievance
Joanna Whitehead // 3 January 2018
Categories: Blog
Stop sneering at Black Friday shoppers
Joanna Whitehead is critical of sensationalist media coverage that portrays the victims of austerity as 'vulgar' or 'lesser' for participating in Black Friday spending
Joanna Whitehead // 23 November 2017
Categories: Class, Culture and Media, Features, Politics and Current Affairs, Work and Play
Thoughts on #metoo
Thoughts on the #metoo campaign
Joanna Whitehead // 16 October 2017
Categories: Blog
The F-Word team update
We warmly welcome three new editors to the team
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Categories: Blog
Black History Month playlist
A playlist to celebrate Black History Month
Joanna Whitehead // 2 October 2017
Categories: Blog
Welcome Emily!
A warm welcome to Emily Zinkin, our new comics editor
Joanna Whitehead // 1 October 2017
Categories: Blog
Annie, you’re an icon, but quotas don’t have to mean compromising on quality
Joanna Whitehead questions Annie Nightgale's recent assertion that gender quotas for women DJs are unnecessary
Joanna Whitehead // 26 September 2017
Categories: Blog
“Everybody that comes here is here for a reason, whether you know it or not”
Jo Whitehead talks to the inspirational Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, director of Oxford’s Young Women’s Music Project, about getting involved in music, sexism in the music industry and maintaining a safe and creative space for the young women of Oxfordshire
Joanna Whitehead // 11 August 2017
Categories: Activism, Culture and Media, Education, Features, Feminism, Interviews
The F-Word is recruiting!
The F-Word is looking for UK-based volunteers to join our team of editors. We have two roles available: features (co-editing with Sophie and guest blog content (co-editing with Monica)
Joanna Whitehead // 28 July 2017
Categories: Blog
“We would die for our activism”
Joanna Whitehead grills “London’s most badass scream queens”, Skinny Girl Diet
Joanna Whitehead // 9 July 2017
Categories: Culture and Media, Features, Interviews
Grenfell Tower is about race and class
Grenfell Tower has become a symbol of systemic, institutional and structural inequality argues Joanna Whitehead
Joanna Whitehead // 22 June 2017
Categories: Blog
An upbeat, upward trajectory
The recent release of Octo Octa’s latest album 'Where Are We Going?' leaves Joanna Whitehead in no confusion that the only way is up for Maya Morrison-Bouldry
Joanna Whitehead // 14 June 2017
Categories: Features, Interviews
The problem with ‘manning up’
Jo Whitehead enjoys the YA novel Girl Mans Up, but is somewhat disappointed at the lack of critical examination of sexist language and internalised misogyny
Joanna Whitehead // 4 May 2017
Spring 2017 playlist
Spring 2017 playlist, for your listening pleasure
Joanna Whitehead // 2 April 2017
Categories: Blog
“I’m not a TERF, but…”
Jo Whitehead despairs at Jenni Murray’s recent assertion that trans women cannot be ‘real’ women
Joanna Whitehead // 6 March 2017
Categories: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Features, Language, Politics and Current Affairs, Stereotypes, Violence
Punk’s pioneer
Jo Whitehead is struck by the brutal honesty in Laura Jane Grace’s moving account of being raised as a boy, navigating adulthood as an angry radical and then transitioning while fronting international anarchist punk band, Against Me!
Joanna Whitehead // 11 February 2017
Winter 2017 playlist
Some tunes, new and old, to brighten your day
Joanna Whitehead // 6 January 2017
Categories: Blog
Forever friends?
Jo Whitehead identifies with the pain and pleasure that female relationships can offer in Kerry Cohen’s Girl Trouble: An Illustrated Memoir and wonders if we all have a Mean Girl lurking within
Joanna Whitehead // 7 November 2016
Autumn 2016 playlist
Autumn 2016 playlist, for your listening pleasure
Joanna Whitehead // 26 September 2016
Categories: Blog
“I don’t see it as a negative thing to be a feminist”
Jo Whitehead talks folk tales and musical histories with the pioneering Eno Williams, front woman of Ibibio Sound Machine
Joanna Whitehead // 7 August 2016
Categories: Culture and Media, Features
