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Published in: 50.50Our obsession with Harper LeeIt is slightly surreal to see people rush to pay tribute to Harper Lee while the very structures that made it...
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Published in: ourBeebCaught in a Brexit bromanceThe referendum on British membership of the EU has important implications for gender equality, but despite attempts...
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Published in: 50.50A woman’s place? The British House of CommonsThe House of Commons exists to represent the people, yet the history of what constitutes ‘people’ has enshrined it...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking liberation, seeking comfort: women migrants in the UKThe UK Home Office continues to indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime, including pregnant women....
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Published in: 50.50'Showing up': Intersectionality 101Patriarchy, racism and capitalism are connected. Yet without an intersectional approach, movements forget...
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Published in: 50.50Millions rising to stop male violenceAnnual Million Women Rise marches, started in 2007 by Sabrina Qureshi, give a platform and visibility to women...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"How we will miss that chuckle": my friend, Doreen MasseyOn the life, theory, activism and humour of Doreen Massey, the great feminist geographer, who has died.
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Published in: 50.50Is the UN really moving toward gender equality?New research raises the question of whether the UN is burying statistics on gender representation in order to cover...
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Published in: 50.50Uncomfortable situations: mothers returning to work"I have to request a key to the room in college each time I need to express milk - as if I am advertising my...
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Published in: 50.50Britain's boycott of the UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talksWith opposition to Trident growing, the British government has refused to join this week's UN multilateral nuclear...
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Published in: 50.50Poppi Worthington: back to the future of child protection politics
The Cumbrian police dismissed her alerts. The pathologist had ‘jumped to conclusions’, she was ‘rash,’ they said.
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Published in: 50.50Britain's "disqualified adults": No passport equals no homeThe new 'Right to Rent Scheme' creates a hostile environment for those without immigration status, and is already...
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Published in: 50.50Defining modern slavery out of existence: who benefits?Academics who suggest that the very idea of ‘modern slavery’ is inane and clichéd undermine anti-slavery activism...
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Published in: 50.50The human search for a homeStories from the Macedonian refugee camps in Gevgelija bordering Greece, and Tabanovce bordering Serbia, tell of...
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Published in: 50.50On the edge of a nation, sitting on the borderLife in UK’s indefinite immigration detention regime evokes the 'barbed wire disease' experienced by 'enemy aliens'...
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Published in: 50.50Child sexual abuse: failing another generation of children?The Office of the Children’s Commissioner reveals that in England 1.3 million will suffer sexual abuse in their...
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Published in: 50.50A brand of manliness that is bad for the worldWhile women’s movements fight for empowerment, what is now destroying men is, paradoxically, the expectation to be...
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Published in: 50.50BAM! OUCH! Being a man
A festival in London allowed men to see other men outside the confines of a narrowly defined masculinity that limits...
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Published in: 50.50After the fast track: what next for the detention of asylum seekers?UK courts have ruled the routine detention of asylum seekers undergoing accelerated claims to be ‘systemically...
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Published in: 50.50Politicking periodsIrish women are tweeting details of their menstrual cycles to Taoiseach Enda Kenny, to protest the sense of...
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