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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

A celebration of women in film: four names to watch in 2019

From across the globe — With Manchester gearing up for HOME’s year-long season on Women in Global Cinema, head of film Rachel Hayward shares her favourite filmmakers on the lineup.

  • Film
  • Hannah Clugston

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

Ireland voted to repeal the 8th – so what happened next?

The aftermath — The country said it was time to repeal the Eighth Amendment and make abortion legal seven months ago. But for those on the ground, almost nothing has changed.

  • Reportage
  • Lydia Morrish

Meet the women of the incel movement

The truth about femcels — The ‘involuntarily celibate’ community is typically seen as being male-dominated, with female members – otherwise known as ‘femcels’ – often being overlooked. Writer Nick Chester meets the women who are being left behind.

  • Tech
  • Nick Chester

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

‘Are women too emotional to hold positions of leadership?’

Meet the Judge — In 2009, Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first female judge to be appointed to the Shari’a courts in Palestine’s West Bank. A new documentary shares her incredible story.

  • Film
  • Hannah Clugston

In France, thousands protest violence against women

Paris goes purple — Around 30,000 people took to the streets of Paris on Saturday for a rally spurred by #NousToutes (#UsAll) – the feminist movement calling for an end to all forms of violence against women.

  • Activism
  • Alexander Durie

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

Celebrating 150 years of the female gaze

Into The Light — A new exhibition, Into The Light, spotlights the rare and undervalued work of female-identifying photographers from the last century.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

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