Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and New Humanist among other papers and magazines. Her books include, Enslaved: The New British Slavery; From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters; Provoked; and 'Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong (Playdead Press, 2013). She is co-authoring a book with Beatrix Campbell with the title Why Doesn’t Patriarchy Die? Follow her on twitter @RahilaG
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Published in: 50.50UK migration: a hierarchy of injusticesThe social cohesion and inclusion debate does not even begin to touch the lives of those invisible migrants who toil...
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Published in: 50.50Faith: know thy placeThe feminist critique of religion should not appease the strident voices which label secularism as fundamentalist or...
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Published in: 50.50Has neoliberalism knocked feminism sideways?
Feminism needs to recapture the state from the neoliberal project to which it is in hock in order to make it deliver...
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Published in: 50.50Lush – cosmetic or real?
The EU is on the point of turning its back on the Schengen agreement. Welcome to the World Passport: 'this document...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism and the soul of secularism
Secularism, as a concept, appears to be in danger from both the left and the right. Among feminists, it tends to be...
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Published in: 50.50Dangerous liaisons
We cannot afford the direct or indirect legitimisation of extremist religious forces especially by organisations...