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Punk’s pioneer

Joanna Whitehead11 February 2017

Jo Whitehead is struck by the brutal honesty in Laura Jane Grace’s moving account of being raised as a boy, navigating adulthood as an angry radical and then transitioning while fronting international anarchist punk band, Against Me!...

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The image of being queer: how should we tackle heteronormativity?

Megan Wallace31 January 2017

Megan Wallace discusses the limitations of queer subcultures as presented in the media and beyond...

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I wore men’s clothes for a month – and it changed my life

Lucy Rycroft-Smith7 January 2017

Motivated by Octieber and determined to combat the world of gendered clothing, Lucy Rycroft-Smith tries menswear for a month and documents her findings...

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Horses and headlocks

Emily Moore15 December 2016

Emily Moore, our guest blogger for December, highlights how gendering sports that require similar skills can lead to them being differently valued...

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Conviction: a Shondaland-esque legal procedural

J. T. Rattray5 December 2016

The excellent casting makes the show but the women are not complex enough, says J. T. Rattray...

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Mrs & Mrs

Jennifer Evans5 November 2016

Our guest blogger for November, Jennifer Evans, writes about her wife, wedding and relationship...

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Why a Muslim woman’s refusal to shake a man’s hand is a feminist issue

Monica Karpinski5 October 2016

A Muslim woman refusing to shake a man’s hand is a feminist, cultural, religious and political issue that exposes what it really means to be treated equally, writes Monica Karpinski...

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Ms Hoyle transcends gender

Mary Paterson3 October 2016

Mary Paterson is thrilled by the opposition to the patriarchy evident in the anti-drag show The Prime of Ms David Hoyle...

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Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe – part one

Various Authors9 August 2016

This is our first post bringing you reviews of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We'll have a few more over the coming days. Today we begin with comedy ...

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Sawdust and sisterhood

Guest Blogger11 July 2016

Flora Herberich writes about the role of women in contemporary circus and the upcoming Postcards Festival at Jacksons Lane Theatre in London...

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Conversations about gender identity

Mary Paterson10 June 2016

Mary Paterson reviews a double bill of STELLA and Adam’s Apple, both part of LIFT, and speaks with STELLA’s writer and director, Neil Bartlett...

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The F-Word stage blog: April 2016

Lissy Lovett12 April 2016

The first in a series of posts on The F-Word about what's happening on stage in the UK...

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Ursula Martinez builds a wall

Rita Suszek15 February 2016

Rita Suszek considers the performance Free Admission and finds it a display of agency, humanity and wit...

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Playing the gender game

Lusana Taylor8 February 2016

Lusana Taylor reviews Girls will be Girls by Emer O’Toole and admires the author’s playful, honest and often very funny approach to gender...

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Gender is performance!

Melanie18 January 2016

What Bowie meant to me...

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A fair perspective

Nick Beard22 November 2015

Nick Beard watches the second series of The Affair and finds a sophisticated examination of the gap between who we perceive ourselves to be and the reality of how we behave...

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Dear Germaine Greer

Elizabeth Howard-Ahern19 November 2015

Elizabeth Howard-Ahern writes an open letter to Germaine Greer, whose troubling views on transgender issues are not consistent with an otherwise powerful feminist philosophy...

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Calm down, it’s a festival of feminist theatre

Mary Paterson6 October 2015

Mary Paterson finds Calm Down Dear, a festival of innovative feminist performance, has a lot to say about the conventions of looking at women...

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