Woman who blazed a trail for equality in marathons hits London’s starting line
There are many differences between Sunday’s London marathon and the one run in Boston, Massachusetts last Monday, not least the weather. While Boston’s runners...
From Madonna to Janelle Monáe: how female sexuality progressed in pop
Why Janelle Monáe’s vagina pants make me cheer | Chitra Ramaswamy
In 1997, Aerosmith released an ode to the female anatomy, simply titled Pink, in...
Eight feminist ways to love your body
“I always end up feeling like shit when I look at Instagram,” said Selena Gomez , who has 133 million Instagram followers, when she...
In the loops: the female producers making hip-hop waves
As per the Tribe Called Quest album, hip-hop is about beats, rhymes and life. The first of these can often get overlooked in favour...
Grace Nicol
“The way that Grace chooses to work with materiality in relation to the body reminds us of the happenings of early feminist approaches to...
Seeing Hillary Clinton reminded me why women shouldn’t get over it
Seeing Hillary Clinton reminded me why women shouldn’t get over it
This week, I got to see Hillary Clinton speak to a crowd of 600...
A rosy future: Nestlé launches pink KitKats with ruby chocolate
The chocolate coating is an Instagrammable lurid lipstick pink with the promise of a unique “intense fruity taste”.
UK consumers will next week be the...
Think Gender Is Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank for That.
If you wanted to choose a celebrity avatar for everything supposedly weird about The Youth, you could do worse than Jaden Smith: a gnomic...
10 years of Lady Gaga: how she queered mainstream pop forever
The year is 2008. I sit on the floor of my family’s modest living room in a sleepy suburb in Ireland, my tongue contorting...
Angry about your company’s gender pay gap? Here’s what to do next
The deadline for reporting the gender pay gap arrives at midnight on 4 April. Any woman working in an organisation with more than 250...
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
This exhibition will present an extraordinary collection of personal artefacts and clothing belonging to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Locked away for 50...
