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The all-women collectives revolutionising the music industry

Girls Rock — With music festivals still dominated by man-heavy lineups, a group of homegrown, DIY collectives are fighting for change.

  • Music
  • Cady Siregar

Should only trans actors take up trans parts?

Summer in London — We asked the cast of Summer In London – a play that's made history with its entirely transgender cast.

  • Culture
  • Michael Segalov

The gender-fluid model queering the academic world

From Cambridge to the catwalk... — As a '21st century polymath', Jacob Mallinson Bird is using queer agency to disrupt the heteronormative – opening minds in unexpected places.

  • Culture
  • Michael Segalov

Why intersexuality will be the next civil rights frontier

Binary be gone — The last twelve months have seen the march of progress for gender and sexual equality gain momentum, but the next battleground is already coming into focus.

  • Activism
  • Charlotte Richardson Andrews

A photographer's epic road trip from Scotland to Mongolia

Boys, bikes and bucket hats — It took 10,000 miles, 19 countries, 40 rolls of film, three deserts, two seas and a vintage car – but James Parker has pulled together a nuanced photo project around ideas of masculinity.

  • Travel
  • Cian Traynor

Meet the girls shaking up the male-dominated film industry

Equality in the moving image world — Girls in Film (GiF) is a new creative network for female filmmakers, determined to tackle the lack of diversity in film.

  • Film
  • Alexia Stam

Capturing the true meaning of gender fluidity

All The People — Gender expression takes many forms, what it means to be a man, a woman, or something other for each of us can never truly be the same. All The People, a new photo book and project, explores the experiences of gender non-conforming people from around the globe, defining their identity on their own terms.

  • Photography
  • Marianna Manson

The all-female bike crews taking over our streets

Rebellious therapy — In 1896, women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony proclaimed the bicycle as the “greatest feminist technology of its time”. Now it's the motorbike's turn.

  • Magazine
  • Max Gayler

The all-female bike crew reclaiming the streets of East LA

Breaking the cycle — Cycling collective Ovarian Psycos are on a mission to take back the city in the name of sisterhood.

  • Outdoors
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

More than a pretty face: Talking race and gender with Donnika Anderson

Finding liberation in the world’s harshest industry — Fashion is, as we all know, a pretty shallow industry. But that doesn’t mean it has to be that way. Model Donnika Anderson explains how she found liberation in modelling and how fashion is slowly untangling its deep-rooted issues.

  • Culture
  • Saoirse O'Leary

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