Running taught me that I was capable of more than I realised. In a culture where the most prominent sports people are men, and with a well-documented gender disparity in UK sports participation, an industry that too often patronises women and relegates our sporting needs is letting us all down. ...
Last month the conference Women and Power looked back at some of the amazing work done in heritage institutions to bring the women in their collections out of the woodwork; here’s what they learnt, and where we need to go next...
Noticing that "alleged" crops up in news stories where it makes no sense at all, D H Kelly argues that this habit among journalists is harmful to rape survivors...
Jo Greene discusses the stigma around talking about periods and what we should be doing to bring those who don't menstruate themselves into the conversation...
Hello and welcome to March’s F-Word music blog post! In which I have ploughed through all those female focused emails I was sent on International Women's Day, and resisted the temptation to send a reply headed "Why aren't you bigging up these performers the rest of the year?"...
Zoe Louise Tongue reviews The Anatomy of Silence, a collection of essays on experiences of rape and sexual violence, which explores the silence that still exists around rape culture even in the era of #MeToo ...
