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What is the gender data gap – and how can we tackle it?

With Caroline Criado-Perez — In her new book, writer and activist Caroline Criado-Perez explores how the majority of the world’s data is based around the male body. In the latest instalment of our series on how to save the world, she explains how we can redress the balance.

  • Activism
  • Katie Goh

Why strippers are going on strike for workers’ rights

Dancing in the streets — London will get a striptease as part of a ‘disruptive’ global protest against unfair and unpaid labour which will see thousands of women walk out of work.

  • Activism
  • Lydia Morrish

Why the world still needs the Women’s March

Strength in numbers — This weekend, hundred of protestors took to the streets of London to march against violence and austerity.

  • Reportage
  • Lydia Morrish

Capitalism is co-opting, & ruining, the feminist movement

We deserve better — This week, Gillette shared a mawkish film paying lip service to the #MeToo movement. But, like many clumsy multinationals before them, they got it all wrong.

  • Opinion
  • Dawn Foster

Collage: from DIY cut-and-paste to radical art form

Tear it up — From Barbara Kruger and Wangechi Mutu to Lorna Simpson: women have been pioneering the DIY art form for the last century. We speak to three artists on what cutting up and piecing together mixed media can tell us about gender, activism and the modern age.

  • Art
  • Cristiana Bedei

Inside the UK’s most radical indie publishers

Part Eight: Silver Press — From Audre Lorde to Leonora Carrington, Silver Press is the London publishing house uncovering forgotten feminist gems: ‘We’re working on bringing back into print strange women writers who we feel offer some reflection or guidance for the present – we think of them a little as mothers of the press.’

  • Books
  • Kit Caless

We've made an all-woman photography issue. This is why.

Voices of change — The seeds of revolution are spreading through documentary photography. A diverse band of image-makers has begun to disrupt narratives that misrepresent and disempower, exposing the flaws of a medium where ‘truth’ is more subjective than it seems.

  • Magazine
  • Daniella Zalcman

Shooting the frontline when you're not a middle class man

Women in war zones — We speak to four female photojournalists working in hostile environments about the challenges they face and what drives them, despite the inherent risk in their work.

  • Activism
  • Eva Clifford

Brazilians rise up against a far-right future

Take it to the streets — Activist groups across the country are mobilising against presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro – a populist who has built a campaign from racism, misogyny and homophobia.

  • Activism
  • Kevin Damasio

Huck 67: An all-woman documentary photo special

Out now! — Huck's annual celebration of visual storytelling returns, focusing on incredible women photographers who have broken new ground or disrupted the status quo.

  • Magazine
  • Huck

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