Despite giving the world TV gems featuring powerful women such as Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, and The Bionic Woman, the reality of women’s lives and human rights in 1970s America was very different. The National Organisation of Women (NOW), founded in 1966, had led the way in the development of women’s rights, but … Continue reading
The Barbican Gallery in London is about to open the first major survey of Carolee Schneemann’s work in the UK. Schneemann was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality, and gender. Originally a painter in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Schneeman was uninterested in the masculine … Continue reading
One of the regular events held at VFD one of the best queer performance spaces in London’s East End is Femme Feral. It’s a queer fight club that takes no prisoners and holds nothing back. Founded by artists Phoebe Patey-Ferguson and Anna Smith in the dark days after Britain voted to leave the European Union, … Continue reading
Erika Cohn’s very sympathetic profile on Khoulud Al-Faqih who became the first woman appointed to be a Judge in a Palestinian Shari’a Court in the West Bank bravely attempts to uncover some of the mystique and secrecy that cloaks this Islamic culture. Most of the time she succeeds exceptionally well, but on some occasions, … Continue reading
London in the 1980’s was a hotbed of radical lesbian feminism with its Rebel Dyke community which for some inexplicable reason has never been mentioned in feminist history books about the period. But that is all about to change with a brand new documentary. The movie’s producers take great pains to point out that before the … Continue reading
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