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Trans* murder rates - under-reported? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
I came across this old tweet today, where the LGBT rights campaigner Peter Thatchell challenged feminist Julie Bindell to condemn the murder of transgendered people: Julie #Burchill & Julie #Bindel.....
The Myth of Shared Girlhood 21 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
The below first-hand accounts of sexual victimization of young girls are taken from a sample of 200 submissions to the Everyday Sexism Project from a roughly 10 hour period on June 17th & 18th this .....
The press blogger, the feminist campaigner and Jack of Kent 12 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
SubScribe, a journalism blog, has a post up about the Mark Wilson trial case, in which the prosecutor and judge referred to the 13 year-old victim as "predatory" and "sexually aggressive" (in case you...
Ignore this post if you're not on Twitter; seriously, for your own mental health 10 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
To nobody's surprise as much as my own, I have some thoughts on the whole Graham Linehan / Sam Ambreen. I think. I kind of stayed away from the sitch on Twitter so I'll be the first to admit that I m...
It's not the women in science who have a problem 2 Jul 2013 | 05:20 pm
Google "women in science" and you get a worrying picture. You know the kind I'm talking about - "Fewer women in top positions mean fewer female role models for students." "Gendered Media Representa...
On the bystander effect and how it perversely protects victims of male violence 17 Jun 2013 | 06:12 pm
In the wake of the terrible news about Charles Saatchi seemingly assaulting his wife in public last Saturday, one of the most persistent bits of outrage I’ve seen is directed not at him, but at the ot...
Here's some basic "reality" for ya 31 May 2013 | 02:03 am
In a week when a British feminist took on & defeated Facebook, Louise Mensch writes disparagingly of the supposed flaccid ineffectiveness of non-US activists, compared to such feminist luminaries as F...
Feminist theory and the blue sweater 25 May 2013 | 02:26 pm
In the movie "The Devil Wears Prada", which is otherwise a pretty uninspiring non-exposé of the underbelly of the fashion magazine industry, there is one scene of transcendent importance that has stuc...
Femen vs. Pussy Riot: Russia and the Ukraine are not in the "West" 10 Apr 2013 | 06:22 pm
I've been interested in the discourse about Femen that's been going on ever since the story of Amina Tyler hit the news. One of the things that strikes me the most about it is how hostile the reaction...
Vile Product: Mick Philpott & our cosy acceptance of male violence 3 Apr 2013 | 06:11 pm
The Daily Mail is doing what the Daily Mail does: taking a human tragedy & obscenely distorting it to score a cheap political point, in the process shedding or neglecting every semblance of decency or...
