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“Growing up I never had a princess that looked like me, now I can get an action doll with cornrows!”: an interview with Letitia Wright

Emily Zinkin18 September 2018

Emily Zinkin got to see Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who plays Wakandan royalty and tech genius Shuri, in interview at London Comicon...

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Madonna at 60

Kirsty Folan25 August 2018

Kirsty Folan enjoys Lucy O’Brien’s newly updated biography of Madonna, Like an Icon...

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The Inking Woman: 250 years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain

Sara Stewart10 August 2018

In examining the 250-year history of female cartoon and comic artists in Britain, Sara Stewart is moved by their trials and tribulations but still sees a long way to go...

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First in the world somewhere

Cazz Blase3 June 2018

Cazz Blase salutes Penny Pepper and enjoys her post punk memoir First in the World Somewhere...

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Writing a world without gender

Florianne Humphrey31 May 2018

Florianne Humphrey is impressed with the socio-political issues explored in the steampunk fantasy novel Galleon...

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From pain to empowerment

Zoe Louise Tongue26 April 2018

Zoe Louise Tongue reviews 100 Women I Know, a book detailing accounts of sexual assault and rape from 100 women, finding it an emotionally difficult read but a necessary and powerful one...

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An end to feminism?

Josie Davis18 April 2018

Josie Davis reads What Women Want by Ella Whelan and can’t resist writing a pointed response piece about the book that suggests that “feminism must end”...

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The science of bad language

Louise Jones12 March 2018

Louise Jones reviews Dr Emma Byrne’s first book Swearing is Good for You which offers a defence of swearing, backed by historical case studies and cutting-edge research ...

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Weekly round-up and open thread

Lusana Taylor22 January 2018

This week's selection of interesting links from around the web chosen by the F-Word team ...

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Listen without prejudice?

Joanna Whitehead22 January 2018

Joanna Whitehead reviews Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them, a collection of essays exploring misogyny in music...

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Goodbye Leia (and thank you, Carrie)

Emily Zinkin19 January 2018

Emily Zinkin says goodbye to Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia but is still not done going on adventures in a galaxy far, far away or smashing the space patriarchy...

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In defence of the c-word

Emma Byrne14 November 2017

Emma Byrne, author of new book Swearing is Good for You, talks women, misogyny, swearing and that ever-controversial c-word ...

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#BlackComicsMonth

Emily Zinkin31 October 2017

Emily Zinkin discusses Black Comics Month and celebrates black female comic creators...

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Zoe Russell reads Is Monogamy Dead? by Rosie Wilby and believes it could potentially be a good starting point for ‘not-yet non-monogamists’ but perhaps relies too much on the author’s personal experience ...

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A dangerous kind of forgiveness

Taryn De Vere7 August 2017

Taryn de Vere reads South of Forgiveness by Thordis Elva and questions whether the author’s personal account of ‘forgiving’ her rapist sets an unhelpful and problematic precedent ...

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A tale of unlikeable women

Sarah Tinsley20 July 2017

Sarah Tinsley applauds Helen McClory’s Flesh of the Peach for refusing to shy away from women’s less palatable traits and experiences ...

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A new twist on some old standards

Nick Beard18 July 2017

Nick Beard cooks and bakes her way through 2015 Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain’s first cookbook Nadiya’s Kitchen and finds herself asking some thought-provoking questions along the way...

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Strange Love

Ali Cocksworth6 July 2017

Ali Cocksworth finds Strange Heart Beating to be an interesting study of grief and relationships, but feels that at points the novel privileges craft over emotional depth...

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