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Published in: 50.50When scarred female bodies demarcate the Indian subcontinent's polityThe Lightning Testimonies, an acclaimed feminist exhibition, comes to Assam, and its powerful images speak to the...
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Published in: 50.50The gender wars in Turkey: a litmus test of democracy?The pent up fury and grief released by Özgecan Aslan’s attempted rape and gruesome murder reveal deep fault lines...
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Published in: 50.50Labour, life and love: Marxist feminists join the dotsLast weekend two generations of international feminists met at a conference in Berlin designed to prompt fresh...
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Published in: 50.50Building "a new Turkey": gender politics and the future of democracyCan Turkey's government eschew gender equality, demonise the country's dynamic women's movement, and still prevent...
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Published in: 50.50Lives of endurance: sanitizing crime against girlsHow much longer will it take the global community to recognise the human dignity and worth of the girl child, and...
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Published in: 50.50Podemos and gender: nods and winks
Are the politics of Podemos as revolutionary as they claim, or are they just the same set of rules in a new format...
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Published in: 50.50CSW: the vital need to defend women human rights defenders
We deserve that you put aside your ideological, political and religious differences and fully recognize and affirm...
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Published in: 50.50The "best time to be born female": the worst to be a feminist advocate
Twenty years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - a pivotal moment in the women’s human rights...
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Published in: 50.50Not just banter: the epidemic of sexism on university campuses‘Lad culture’ on campus is often excused as harmless, as simple bonding among male students. But it has clear links...
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Published in: 50.50Movements, money and social change: how to advance women’s rights
At the UN CSW underway in New York, a statement signed by almost 1000 women’s rights organizations calls out the...
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Published in: 50.50Women and science: time to cut the NeurotrashOpportunities need to be made for young girls to identify with science while providing fairer employment for working...
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Published in: 50.50Domestic violence in Sri Lanka: the power of alternative discourse
The Prevention of Domestic Violence Act has opened up an important and new discursive ‘space of struggle’ to debate...
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Published in: 50.50The world's girls: no voice, no rightsHow can we address the global threat to women's rights with no space for girls’ - or even women’s - voices at the...
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Published in: 50.50Trapped: women fleeing violence in the UKThe raft of cuts affecting the women's sector, and election promises made by Labour and the Conservatives not to...
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Published in: 50.50Roast or toast? Mapping changes in violent menRecognising that we have reached a stalemate in dealing with violent men, and an impasse in policy and research on...
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Published in: 50.50Bikinis and babas: the gender subtext of clichés about UkraineIn a conflict situation, humiliation of the enemy is frequently gendered. Yet the quasi-Orientalist tropes through...
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Published in: 50.50The triple whammy: towards the eclipse of women’s rightsCaught in the cross-fire of political opportunism, neo-liberal triumphalism and geopolitical adventurism, feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Ched Evans: football in the eye of a perfect storm
This feels like the first time that sex and violence, football, capitalism and democracy have crashed into each...
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Published in: 50.50Women defenders of human rights: the good, the great and the gutsyHarriet Wistrich is a beacon in the darkness that threatens to engulf the British legal system today with massive...
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Published in: 50.50Laurie Penny on Unspeakable Things
Laurie Penny’s latest book ‘Unspeakable Things’ touches upon the unspeakable: “how sex and money and power police...
