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THIS IS THE END…
Posted by Charlotte on April 22, 2011
Subtext is no more.
Thanks to everyone for your support, enthusiasm and contributions to making Subtext such a fantastic magazine and experience.
Sadly, we just don’t have the time to keep Subtext going – and doing half a job was…
LAST ISSUE OF SUBTEXT MAGAZINE
Posted by Charlotte on October 8, 2010
Tags: feminism, magazine
Bad news for feminist magazine lovers — the next issue of Subtext, to be released before the end of the year, will be our last.
We have loved every single second of production, your contributions, your emails, all the amazing…
WILL LABOUR SEE 50% WOMEN IN SHADOW CABINET?
Posted by Charlotte on September 28, 2010
As you must know by now Ed Milliband sneaked into the leadership roll for the Labour party this week turning the news coverage into more brotherly love/hate debates (his older brother David had looked like the shoe-in for the role).…
LONDON FASHION WEEK’S FATSHION: BETH DITTO AT EVANS
Posted by Charlotte on September 21, 2010
Every now and again there’s a bit of a fuss kicked up over size acceptance on the catwalk. This mainly happens after some young woman on the slim side of tiny size has died. People pretend that catwalks will be…
LONDON FASHION WEEK’S FLIGHT OF FEMINISM: TATTY DEVINE
Posted by Charlotte on September 20, 2010
Tags: fashion, feminism, History, LFW, Tatty Devine, Women
As fashion week and new seasonal wardrobes get all up in your face and over magazines it’s worth pulling out the little bits of interest to feminists — today, the Tatty Devine designed ‘Age of Blazing Trails’ amazing women-based…
LOOKING AT WOMEN IN THE NEWS
Posted by Charlotte on September 6, 2010
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. While this was first brought to my attention when a friend searched for feminism and found… NOTHING
I found a similar dearth…
BREASTFEEDING: TIT TENTS, HOOTER HIDERS AND POINTLESS ADVENTURES IN MODESTY
Posted by Charlotte on August 27, 2010
Guardian reporter Viv Groskop has a great article out today regarding the vogue for covering up while breastfeeding with a series of new modesty promising inventions.
The small ads in pregnancy magazines are suddenly full of these strange
…
HOME ECONOMICS AND FEMINISM: TIME TO CLEAN UP
Posted by Charlotte on August 17, 2010
Tags: book, book review, do and mend, feminism, housewife, make, vintage
“Now that feminism has reclaimed the territory of traditional ‘housewife’ and empowered it…”
It’s a pity that came up in the press release because they had me at ‘practical advice’. I would just have enjoyed the…
SECOND HAND AT EVERY SIZE
Posted by Charlotte on August 6, 2010
We haven’t given enough attention to the Big Bum Jumble just around the corner, it’s not only going to be an amazing day of size acceptance and fatshion but it’s also going to be a fundraiser for the fatty…
STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Posted by Charlotte on July 21, 2010
Tags: Amnesty, AmnestyUK, no recourse to public funds, vaw, Violence Against Women
Do pat yourselves on the back after reading this note from Amnesty International:
Dear Supporter,
I’m delighted to tell you that on Friday the Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced that she would extend the current No Recourse pilot project
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