Novara FM: Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
Tag: feminism
Downstream: ‘A Red Flag and a Silver Dress?’ Interview With Divina De Campo
RuPaul has turned drag into a multi-million dollar industry and a global TV franchise, but has that meant that the art of drag has lost its claim to being punk? Ash Sarkar was joined by Divina De Campo, first runner up from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 1, to talk about drag, gender identity, and the […]
Novara FM: After Barbarism: Rosa Luxemburg’s Revolutionary Life
James Butler is joined by Dana Mills, author of a new critical biography of Rosa Luxemburg, to explore Red Rosa's life, thought and many legacies.
Opinion: Trans People Aren’t ‘Chucking Bricks’, They’re Fighting to Survive
Aimee Armstrong
Framing the 'trans debate' as a culture war obstructs discussions about the political changes we must make to actually improve the material conditions of trans people and cis women alike, writes Aimee Armstrong.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 11: Friendship
Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the history and theory of friendship, from Aristotle to Elland Road.
Opinion: Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground
Eleanor Penny
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'.
Explainers: 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
Rosa Campbell
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
Sophie K Rosa
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: #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
Sophie K Rosa
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.
Novara Docs: 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
Sophie K Rosa
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.
The Lockdown: “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
Ava Caradonna
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
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
Adriano Mérola Marotta
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.