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Ending exploitation of migrant women starts with a fair wage

Nicholl Hardwick13 December 2017

A woman's immigration status should not be something which businesses and governments use as a way to maintain cheap labour, writes Nicholl Hardwick ...

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Hope springs

Guest Blogger5 July 2017

Guest blogger Holly Donovan writes about the sexism she has encountered in the acting industry and her plans to change that culture...

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The comic strip: commercial feminism

Guest Blogger24 December 2016

Ahead of Christmas, our resident cartoonist, Silvia Carrus, takes on the commercialisation of feminism...

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Beautiful dead women

Ailsa Bristow26 January 2016

Ailsa Bristow looks at Making a Murderer as part of a broader cultural trend in which women’s deaths are fetishised and made into a spectacle, while the women themselves are erased...

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Song of the day: Ian Dury – Spasticus Autisticus

Holly Combe2 August 2012

Ian Dury's challenge to patronising attitudes towards disabled people ...

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Enforced labour for the jubilee

Laura5 June 2012

The jubilee workfare scandal is symptomatic of everything that's wrong with Britain under the ConDem government. ...

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A guest post by Rosie, in which she talks about how her ideas of feminism clashed with her reaction to her husband visiting a strip club. Some readers may find the subject matter triggering, so please approach with caution. ...

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Disabled? Work for less!

Holly Combe17 June 2011

I expect the headline above would be dismissed by Tory MP Philip Davies as yet more "leftwing hysteria" but it precisely reflects something he has seriously s...

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Unemployed? On a low income? Make sure you vote!

Holly Combe5 May 2010

Please note that the following blog post only represents my own opinion and is not meant to be taken as "the official F-word view on the election" I think th...

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