Tag: feminism

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.
What Is Effeminacy and How Can We Celebrate It?
Mainstream society's conception of what it means to be a man leaves no room for the celebration and cherishing of a more feminine kind of manhood.
Living a Feminist Life: An Interview With Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed joins Ray Filar to talk about her new book, being a feminist killjoy, the use of theory, working inside and outside the academy, lesbian feminism of colour, snapping, Leona Lewis and her survival kit.
F.E.M.M.E
On #KilljoyFM, Ray Filar is joined by Victoria Sin, Juno Mac and Travis Alabanza to discuss femme as radical politics, femininities, and whether femme threatens feminism.
The Soapbox: All Women Are Workers

Eleanor Penny brings you “The Soapbox” We usually think that work means employment in the formal economy. But domestic labour – done mostly by women, and mostly for free – is the most fundamental kind of work there is.