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Feminism in Argentina: From the #NiUnaMenos Protests to the International Women’s Strike

Malena Lenta

In 2015, a girl was murdered by her boyfriend and buried alive in Argentina, sparking mass protests across the country. Feminist activist Malena Lenta explains how this grew into a movement, which is now embracing the International Women's Strike

The Impossibility of the International Women’s Strike is Exactly Why It’s So Necessary

Camille Barbagallo

Kicking off a week-long Novara Focus on the womens' strike, Camille Barbagallo explains the centrality of women's productive and reproductive labour to capitalist society, and asks whether reproductive labour can ever really be withdrawn.

From the Women’s March to the International Women’s Strike

Long Read: ‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity

Joni Pitt (Cohen) & Sophie Monk

Feminists have identified that paid work depends on unpaid female labour performed within the household. But what happens queer folk; those denied access to the traditional household unit, forced to find other ways to support themselves? Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk explore the idea that, in some ways, queerness is precarity.

IMOBastani: Owen Smith’s Sexism Problem

Has Owen Smith's misogynist behaviour been deliberately ignored by those trying to smear the Corbyn movement?

Theresa May becomes Britain’s 2nd female PM – This is NOT a feminist victory

Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.

Long Read: Breaking Up with Monogamy: A Political Project

Brigitte Vasallo

After acts of infidelity, the fingers of blame point to everything other than monogamy: one of the only social contracts that seems to remain untouchable. Brigitte Vasallo encourages us to question this pact that, she argues, reproduces the logic of capital in the way we love one another.

Novara FM: Lean Out: In Conversation with Dawn Foster

On this week's show James Butler and Ash Sarkar are joined by Dawn Foster as they discuss her new book Lean Out.

Sex Work: Decriminalisation, Policing and Fighting for a Better Future

Eleanor Penny talks to a range of sex workers and sex work advocates to discuss how different legal models affect workers and what additional measures are needed to ensure their safety and wellbeing.

#ReclaimIWD: 7 Reflections from Inside the University of London’s Feminist Occupation

Helena Dunnett-Orridge

8 March is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion free education activists from across the country have spent the weekend in an occupation of Senate House at the University of London.

‘Monsters and white knights’: Ukip’s crusade against sexual violence is white supremacy by another name

Eleanor Penny

Rotherham is still reeling from the council's exposed abuse cover-ups. Ukip continue to capitalise on the situation by tying sexual abuse to 'failed multiculturalism' - reiterating racist tropes and bolstering white supremacist leanings along the way.

Novara FM: Trans feminisms: Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack

On this week's show James Butler is joined by Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack as they discuss trans- and sex worker-inclusive feminisms.

Radical Lives: Sylvia Pankhurst

Daniel Whittall

Sylvia Pankhurst is commonly regarded among the first socialist feminists, but less widely known is her simultaneous commitment to fighting colonialism and fascism, and to amplifying the interconnectedness of these various systems of oppression.

Novara FM: Women in Dark Times

On this week's show James Butler is joined by Nina Power and Jacqueline Rose as they discuss feminism, violence and power, - themes emerging from Rose's new book 'Women in Dark Times'.

Radical Lives: Moheba Khorsheed

Linah Alsaafin

An teacher, activist and later militia fighter, Moheba Khorsheed founded the Chrysanthemum Flowers - the first all-women armed organization of its kind. She also spent her life promoting tolerance and freedom of belief alongside Palestinian liberation.

6 Things You Almost Definitely Didn’t Know About #VagaDeTotes

Alicia García Rodríguez

Word of the huge Catalan feminist social strike is now spreading through the English-speaking left, but who's behind it, what's it about and, crucially, what's coming next?

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Feminism in Argentina: From the #NiUnaMenos Protests to the International Women’s Strike

Malena Lenta

What even is anarchafeminism?

The Hijab is More European Than the Tie: Islamophobia and Misogyny

Theresa May becomes Britain’s 2nd female PM – This is NOT a feminist victory

Long Read: Breaking Up with Monogamy: A Political Project

Brigitte Vasallo

Novara FM: Lean Out: In Conversation with Dawn Foster

Sex Work: Decriminalisation, Policing and Fighting for a Better Future

#ReclaimIWD: 7 Reflections from Inside the University of London’s Feminist Occupation

Helena Dunnett-Orridge

‘Monsters and white knights’: Ukip’s crusade against sexual violence is white supremacy by another name

Eleanor Penny

Novara FM: Trans feminisms: Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack

Radical Lives: Sylvia Pankhurst

Daniel Whittall

Novara FM: Women in Dark Times

Radical Lives: Moheba Khorsheed

Linah Alsaafin

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Feminism in Argentina: From the #NiUnaMenos Protests to the International Women’s Strike

Malena Lenta

The Impossibility of the International Women’s Strike is Exactly Why It’s So Necessary

Camille Barbagallo

From the Women’s March to the International Women’s Strike

Cinzia Arruzza

What even is anarchafeminism?

The Hijab is More European Than the Tie: Islamophobia and Misogyny

Long Read: ‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity

Joni Pitt (Cohen) & Sophie Monk

IMOBastani: Owen Smith’s Sexism Problem

Theresa May becomes Britain’s 2nd female PM – This is NOT a feminist victory

Long Read: Breaking Up with Monogamy: A Political Project

Brigitte Vasallo

Novara FM: Lean Out: In Conversation with Dawn Foster

Sex Work: Decriminalisation, Policing and Fighting for a Better Future

#ReclaimIWD: 7 Reflections from Inside the University of London’s Feminist Occupation

Helena Dunnett-Orridge

‘Monsters and white knights’: Ukip’s crusade against sexual violence is white supremacy by another name

Eleanor Penny

Novara FM: Trans feminisms: Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack

Radical Lives: Sylvia Pankhurst

Daniel Whittall

Novara FM: Women in Dark Times

Radical Lives: Moheba Khorsheed

Linah Alsaafin

6 Things You Almost Definitely Didn’t Know About #VagaDeTotes

Alicia García Rodríguez

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