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Posted by Laura on July 5, 2010
Tags: academia, Activism, Books, feminism, News, Politics
Women Will Bear Brunt of Budget Cuts piece at The Guardian
CWS at University of York Announces A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism
Carol Ann Duffy Reading, Questions and Book Signing in Lincoln
ASKING FOR IT
Posted by Laura on July 3, 2010
Tags: News, Rape, TV, Women
On a similar topic to the last post – I turned on BBC 1 Breakfast News this morning in the middle of a discussion about respecting other countries’ members by not wearing swimwear into bars, restaurants, shops and so…
SORRY FOR THE LACK OF POSTS…
Posted by Charlotte on April 20, 2010
Tags: feminism, News, Round Up
Laura is stuck out in Mexico waiting to fly home, and I’m glued to BBC updates on flights back to New York. We’re mad distracted, but here’s what I’ve been reading to keep my mind of the skies.
HAVE A LITTLE LOOKY
Posted by Charlotte on January 23, 2010
Tags: feminism, News, Women's Issues, Women's Rights
At the F Word – Eaves are holding a pre-election Question Time for Women on the 16th March, where 2,000 people will have the chance to submit questions to the Ministers for Women about their policies on women’s issues.…
SPOT THE G
Posted by Charlotte on January 3, 2010
Tags: feminism, G-Spot, News, sex
The Times splashed a piece recently using a science paper to claim the G-Spot was a big myth. I just read it and was happy to find it held as little weight as I’d imagined – rather than…
ISSUE 8 HITS THE ROYAL MAIL
Posted by Gill on December 21, 2009
Tags: Magazines, News, Zines
I spent quite a lot of yesterday evening and some of today (I ran out of envelopes yesterday) packing up all the subscribers and pre orders for issue…
WOMEN CHALLENGE IRISH ABORTION BAN IN EUROPEAN COURT
Posted by Laura on December 10, 2009
Tags: Abortion Rights, News, Women
In a case being watched closely in other Catholic countries such as Poland, Spain and Malta, the Strasbourg court heard the arguments for the ban from the Irish government and from lawyers for the one Lithuanian and two Irish women.…
IN WHICH I LOSE FAITH (WHICH ARGUABLY NEVER EXISTED) IN THE GSA
Posted by Laura on November 23, 2009
Tags: Children, feminism, Gender Stereotypes, News, Women, Youth
Jill Berry, president of the Girls’ School Association (GSA), has been popping up in the press recently with some quite alarming, and sometimes contradictory, notions.
Commenting on feminism and fashion and the recent story about Cambridge female undergrads’ scantily clad…
A WHOLE NEW WORLD
Posted by Charlotte on October 6, 2009
Tags: Charlotte, News
Well.
You may have not made it to the mothership .co.uk site in quite some time, but after some super dedicated work from Kerry at ReallyFancy.com we have integrated everything you’ll ever need from us, right here in…
MEDIA BACKLASH: KEEPING THINGS THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
Posted by Charlotte on October 3, 2009
Tags: Backlash, feminism, News
My awareness of the backlash against feminism has become acute, particularly when in the mainstream media, particularly in misrepresentation of facts, figures and even words. As newspapers are my preferred medium, let me use headlines to make my point. …