feminist
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE a beautiful, very detailed, documentary about the trail-blazing sex educator
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…
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Carolee Schneemann BODY POLITICS diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary @ Barbican Gallery, London
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…
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Feminist Fight Club
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,…
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The Judge
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,…
