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: 50.50Power structures and the politics of knowledge productionWith the publication of the updated Beyond the Fragments, Hilary Wainwright spoke to Rahila Gupta about the politics...
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Published in: 50.50Transgender: the challenge to feminist politics
There are so many battles yet to be won by feminists that we must not be distracted by internal schisms. If we can...
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Published in: 50.50Women and LGBT rights: the Achilles’ heel of Christian knights
The narrative of splits in Protestantism which is based on convenient binaries, with African and Asian churches...
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Published in: 50.50Away from prison: the distance travelled
Normal 0 The British government's new policy of cutting re-offending rates by introducing a crude payment-by-results...
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Published in: 50.50The value of a woman's life
We need to make sure that we do not take the blame for the violence that is visited upon us. We need to develop a...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence in Indian cities
A Gallup poll finding that women in Rwanda and Bangladesh felt safer on the streets than women in the UK and Sweden...