Who Is Belle Delphine, the Gamer Girl Selling Her Bathwater?
Belle Delphine. Photo: @belle.delphine/Instagram What a time to be alive. Years ago, used bathwater existed almost solely as a vehicle for hurling out babies. Now, in the age of Instagram and e-commerce, it’s something...
Listen to The xx’s latest album, I See You
Five years after Coexist, the UK band's third album is finally here The xx have dropped their third studio album, titled I See You . The 10-track LP includes previously released singles “ On...
Photographer Shoog McDaniel celebrates fatness in all its glory
@shooglet The Florida-based photographer and artist talks through their creative process, self-acceptance, and overcoming Instagram’s anti-nude algorithm Shoog McDaniel ’s photographs of fat, often queer, people are undoubtedly among the most striking pieces of...
Gaslight: the return of the play that defined toxic masculinity
The term “gaslighting” – psychological manipulation intended to make the victim question their sanity – has become embedded in our language. This year, accusations of gaslighting were aimed at Love Island housemates Michael and...
Countries with strong women’s rights likely to have better health and faster growth, study...
Overall, nations with robust women’s rights had better health than those countries where women’s rights were only modestly or poorly respected Countries which have a strong track record on women’s rights are more likely...
Without these women, man would not have walked on the moon
All 12 people who walked on the moon were men. But among the 400,000 people who made it possible, there were numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses. Today,...
Pardon the rant, but here’s why I love my Mooncup so much
If you’re a Guardian-reading woman of a certain age, it’s likely you’ll have been party to the evangelical Mooncup rant. In the Mooncup rant, one woman tells the other about a convex piece of...
E-girls and boys’ style is the antidote to the homogenised IG aesthetic
@eve.frsr In the age of the cookie-cutter Instagram influencer, an army of Gen-Zers are exploring the alternative via rising social platform TikTok It’s likely that, if you’ve heard of E-girls before, you know them...
Yayoi Kusama is creating her first ever participatory art installation
Kusama with Pumpkin (2010) Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York Celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is set to bring exciting new work to her latest...
How Liz Johnson Artur chronicled black culture – in pictures
The photography of Russian-Ghanaian Liz Johnson Artur is being showcased in her first solo exhibition , now on at the Brooklyn Museum in New York until 18 August. It spans three decades of work...
Let’s not forget, women’s football is still an act of resistance
As the Women’s World Cup reaches new levels of recognition and respectability, we explore how inequality has always been rife in the game When the early football clubs of England began to establish the...
Women outperform men after Japan medical school stops rigging exam scores
Women have outperformed their male counterparts in entrance examinations for a medical school in Japan that last year admitted rigging admission procedures to give men an unfair advantage. Juntendo University in Tokyo said that...
Polly Higgins, lawyer who fought for recognition of ‘ecocide’
Polly Higgins, one of the most inspiring figures in the green movement, has died aged 50. Higgins, a British barrister, led a decade-long campaign for “ecocide” to be recognised as a crime against humanity....
One Brave Woman – Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr speaking at TED2019 last week. The Observer journalist was invited to give a talk in a session tagged Truth. If Silicon Valley is the beast, then TED is its belly. And on...
‘We are now free’: Yazidis fleeing Isis start over in female-only commune
A mural in Jinwar. The female-only commune in north-eastern Syria opened in November and is home to Kurdish, Yazidi and Arab families. Photograph: Bethan McKernan/The Guardian Berivan runs over to join in the...
Tracey Thorn: ‘Not everything you do is cool’
‘I feel very lucky to still feel like I’m full of ideas’: Tracey Thorn. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer You mined your teenage diaries a little in your first book, Bedsit Disco...
Susan Hiller, artist who explored the paranormal, dies aged 78
The artist Susan Hiller – whose work tackled such esoteric subjects as automatic writing, near-death experiences and alien abduction – has died aged 78 after a short illness. The news was confirmed by...
Megan Rapinoe: ‘Maybe men should just take a few hundred years off’
Megan Rapinoe says: ‘It’s not really an issue of whether police brutality exists or not or whether racism is still an issue or not. It very much is.’ Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP “As I’ve...
June Whitfield – a life in pictures
Much loved comedy actor June Whitfield has died at the age of 93. Best known for her roles in Terry and June and Absolutely Fabulous, here we look back at her career that...
The season of the witch: how Sabrina and co are casting their spell over...
The season of the witch is truly upon us . A remake of Dario Argento’s giallo classic Suspiria has just been released, while this autumn, TV will conjure up not just one but three...
