interview Archives - The F-Word

Finding beauty in the ‘unbeautiful’: in conversation with Lucy Burscough

Alice Parkin2 May 2019

12,000 people in the UK every year are diagnosed with head and neck cancer. Alice Parkin spoke to Lucy about Facing Out, her exhibition exploring the treatment and aftermath of this difficult illness through a series of powerful portraits currently on display in Manchester...

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“I wanted to feel seen” – An interview with Babs Tarr

Emily Zinkin9 April 2019

Babs Tarr is one of Emily Zinkin's favourite artists. When they were both at Thought Bubble she got the chance to interview her ...

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“Our mission is to promote and develop African and Caribbean creative talent in its widest sense”

Emily Holyoake3 March 2018

The F-Word interviews Anna Coombs of Tangle Theatre...

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“As a working-class woman of colour there are sections of feminism that aren’t made with me in mind”

Lissy Lovett14 November 2017

Lissy Lovett interviews Koko Brown over email about her new play WHITE...

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An upbeat, upward trajectory

Joanna Whitehead14 June 2017

The recent release of Octo Octa’s latest album 'Where Are We Going?' leaves Joanna Whitehead in no confusion that the only way is up for Maya Morrison-Bouldry...

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Fear does not need to be translated: Mattie Do in conversation

Various Authors27 December 2016

“Final Girls” Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe chat to Mattie Do, first film director to ever direct a horror film in Laos, about ghosts, spirit houses and being a woman director...

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“I’m so bloody glad I get to call myself a woman”

Huma Munshi15 September 2016

Huma Munshi talks to playwright Theresa Ikoko about her new play, Girls, and is inspired by her evident need to create a different and better world...

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“I don’t see it as a negative thing to be a feminist”

Joanna Whitehead7 August 2016

Jo Whitehead talks folk tales and musical histories with the pioneering Eno Williams, front woman of Ibibio Sound Machine...

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An interview with actor Amy Conachan: “I couldn’t be more excited to tour with Wendy Hoose again”

Lissy Lovett15 March 2016

Lissy Lovett interviews the actor Amy Conachan about about disability, accessible theatre and Tinder...

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The rise and fall of the Lingerie Football League

Helen Reid27 February 2016

February's guest blogger Helen Reid interviews the founder of the Lingerie Football League and the instigator of the petition against it, considering how the League may be damaging to women's representation in the beautiful game...

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Pankhearst: pixels into knives

Andie Berryman7 October 2015

Andie Berryman talks to Evangeline Jennings of indie writing collective Pankhearst about the publishing process, America’s ‘war on women’ and the fury that drives her to write...

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“We need to be constantly fighting. We need to be raising our voices”

Gemma Fraser9 September 2015

Asking For It author Louise O’Neill talks to Gemma Fraser about rape culture, society’s fear of female sexuality, and how it feels to be the rising star of feminist fiction...

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Feminist film badass: an interview with Elisabeth Subrin

Sophie Mayer29 April 2015

Sophie Mayer talks to Elisabeth Subrin, director of Shulie, a 1997 shot-for-shot remake of 1967 documentary about Shulamith Firestone during her time as an art student ...

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A pinch of SALT

M. Ly-Eliot21 August 2014

M. Lý-Eliot interviews the editors of feminist art zine SALT, finding out their backgrounds, interests and aspirations for their project ...

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New interview: Sini Anderson on The Punk Singer

Ania Ostrowska29 May 2014

Following her review of The Punk Singer, Sophie Mayer interviewed the director, Sini Anderson, via Skype for The F-Word. I was lucky to witness another Skype i...

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Keep making the work

Sophie Mayer29 May 2014

Sophie Mayer chats on Skype to Sini Anderson, American director of The Punk Singer, recent documentary about Kathleen Hanna ...

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New review and interview: That Catherine Bennett Show

Megan Stodel3 March 2014

Catherine Bennett is the new superstar in town. The brainchild of Bryony Kimmings and her young niece Taylor, CB is a palaeontologist and pop star, aiming to ...

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New review: Sandcastle

Ania Ostrowska3 December 2013

Marta Owczarek, who has been contributing to our music reviews section recently, watched Sandcastle during recent London International Film Festival and review...

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