MATILDA EKSTRÖM reviews I See It Differently, a series of short documentaries shown at Bloomsbury Festival 2020. I See It Differently, shown as part of..
SEEHAM RAHMAN examines femininity and sexual politics in Polly Nor’s satirical illustrations. Sensuality, identity, and femininity are not new phenomena in illustration and storytelling. However,..
FATIMA JAFAR reviews the poetry of Sandra Brown Springer and Remi-Lyn Brown, performed in an event celebrating black queer womanhood. DISRUPTION, an event marking the..
THOMAS NGUYEN discusses Mary Wollstonecraft’s message on education for the Time’s Up generation. Following the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, the ever-growing number of liberating..
EMMA CHEUNG explores the concealment of queer identity in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith and Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden. The lesbian narrative of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith revolves..
ALICE DEVOY looks at the what, why and who of swearing. Some words are more shocking than others. They have been deemed inappropriate, offensive or disrespectful, and..
JAMIE HARDIE reviews UCL Drama Society’s Eigengrau and Girl in Yellow Raincoat at the Bloomsbury Studio. Drama Society’s term three double bill in the Bloomsbury Studio was a fitting..
ISABEL WEBB speaks to Raniyah Qureshi, the founder of AWOMENfest, a three day feminist art festival that launches this month. Picture the scene: nestled in..
SHALAKA BAPAT discusses what ‘Home’ means to the speakers at the TEDxUCLWomen event. Throughout history, women have been confined to domestic, private spaces. ‘A woman’s place..
FLOSSIE WILDBLOOD explores self-sacrifice and self-assertion in Dolores, a new documentary about civil rights activist Dolores Huerta. Dolores is yet another, more subtle, act of..
BEATRICE KT reviews Shami Chakrabarti’s speech at The School of Life. “Unencumber yourselves”, a woman proclaims on stage as the event starts. I’m wondering what I am..
ISABEL WEBB discusses sex education after UCL Leading Women tackled the subject in collaboration with Men’s Rugby. Ask anyone what their experience of sex education..
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