#ACFM Trip 11: Friendship
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the history and theory of friendship, from Aristotle to Elland Road.
Tag: feminism
Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground
Trans bathroom panics may seem trivial - a bad-faith media circus, a creepy fixation on where total strangers empty their body’s waste products - but public toilets have long been a key political battleground in an ongoing fight over whose bodies are worthy of dignity, writes Eleanor Penny, in the first of a new series on 'filth'.
What Is Feminism?
Real feminism – the kind that can transform the world – is about fighting for and with anyone who gets a raw deal under patriarchy. Not just people with the right kind of job, the right kind of genitals or the right kind of passport. In our new ‘Explains’ series Dalia Gebrial & Eleanor Penny […]
internationalwomensday.com Is a Corporate Hijack
Google ‘international women’s day’ and the first hit that comes up is internationalwomensday.com. Despite looking the part, the site is an exercise in corporate co-option, promoting international companies with a history of exploitative labour practices, writes Rosa Campbell.
The World Transformed Showed How Much the Labour Party Has to Learn About Feminism
Political festival The World Transformed put feminism front and centre, showing how it is essential to a meaningful left politics. But the Labour Party failed to listen to activists by not showing solidarity with trans people or sex workers.
#ACFM Trip 5: Consciousness Raising
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the history and future of the tradition of consciousness raising.
Sidelined No Longer, Sex Workers Led the Women’s Strike
At the heart of a feminism for all, the push for sex worker rights is a movement in which women who experience intersecting oppression and who have been marginalised by mainstream feminism are fighting back and winning.
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg?
Rosa Luxemburg was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. She was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy scandalised people at the time both from the left and the right. We sent Eleanor Penny to Berlin on the 100th anniversary of her death […]
Sisterhood and Solidarity: How Pakistan’s Feminists Started an Anti-War Movement
As women in Pakistan prepare for the country’s second International Women’s Day March, the feminist movement has adopted an anti-war agenda that attacks militarism from an explicitly anti-capitalist, feminist and postcolonial perspective.
“Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism
Oonagh Ryder speaks to Mo Mansfield, a social justice campaigner and women’s sector professional. They discuss what carceral feminism is, how it has helped to expand and entrench the criminal justice system and how we can move beyond this towards an abolitionist feminism.
How Anti-Sex Work Legislation Bolsters the Racist State
Sexual violence is not just a 'foreign' problem of traffickers and grooming gangs - and cracking down on sex worker rights doesn't protect anyone from exploitation.
Why Feminists Need to Seize the Memes of Production
Iida Käyhkö and Camille Barbagallo make the case for a truly radical meme culture that subverts dominant hierarchies around gender and sexuality instead of upholding them with tired stereotypes.
Argentinian Women Might Finally Be Winning the Fight to Decriminalise Abortion
Abortion is illegal in Argentina, but in recent years the country's strong feminist movement has made enormous strides in changing public opinion on the issue. As a decriminalisation bill travels through congress, International Women’s Day saw tens of thousands of women protest in Buenos Aires, with demands for free, safe and legal, abortion taking centre-stage.
#WomenStrike
On International Women’s Day 2018, women went on strike around the world. Here’s our report from the demonstration in London.
WTF Is the Women’s Strike?
Dalia Ed hosts a special episode of The Fix, all about the upcoming Women’s Strike. She is joined by Nadine Houghton, Camille Barbagallo, Sam Siva and Molly Gerlach-Arthurs.
Is Capitalism Ruining Women’s Sex Lives?
Under late capitalism the new 'Madonna' is drip-fed just enough sex, within the confines of a monogamous relationship, to keep her pliant; while the 'Whore' accumulates sexual encounters like capital, writes Joana Ramiro on Valentine's Day.
A Century of Suffrage?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Zoe Williams, Ash Sarkar and Eleanor Penny to discuss the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which offered limited suffrage to women, and discuss the changing face of feminism in the past century.
5 Reasons Climate Change is a Feminist Issue
From the murder of indigenous women fighting resource extraction to carbon footprint reduction initiatives that focus largely on the domestic sphere, climate change is a crisis that is fundamentally gendered. Here are five reasons climate change is a feminist issue.