A new film uncovers the extraordinary career of Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr, from escaping Nazi Germany to pioneering wireless technology.

Stef Nurding is bridging skate’s gender divide

The concrete chameleon

Pro skater and model Stefani Nurding is using her unique set of skills to shake up a male-dominated industry.

Art & Culture

Meet the TV revolutionaries putting queer women of colour front and centre

Introducing 'Brown Girls'

Fatimah Asghar and Sam Bailey discuss their web series tackling love and friendship in Chicago's artistic and queer communities.

Outdoor

The fierce pioneers of Lebanon’s first female roller derby team

Shiny Tiny

Roller derby has made its way to Beirut and slammed down with an intentional thud. These women aren’t just pioneers: they’re the architects of a new future.

Activism

Five ways to promote gender equality in everyday life

How to talk to girls

A week on from the Women’s Marches across the globe, here are five things you can do every day for the rest of your life to promote gender equality.

Art & Culture

Iceland’s female hip-hop collective is changing the game

Daughters of Reykjavik

With songs about slut-shaming and body positivity, Reykjavik's punkest hip-hop crew are finally putting the country's female rappers on the map.

Art & Culture > Film

The Saudi women challenging sexism with skateboarding and song

‘God rid us of men’

A viral music video calls for gender equality and ridicules the absurd restrictions and male domination of women in the Middle East.

Art & Culture > Photography

Inside the Indian community where women make all the rules

Kingdom of girls

Photographer Karolin Klüppel immersed herself in the lives of young girls from the Khasi indigenous people, a society in north-east India where women and girls run the show.

Art & Culture

The young women activists leading Standing Rock to victory

The indigenous activists of Standing Rock, North Dakota, won a major victory on Sunday in their battle to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. Huck met the activists holding fort at Standing Rock when the hope of victory was still a distant dream.