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Published in: 50.50Self-care in a digital spaceFor feminist activists, burnout is the norm. How can we best preserve collective wellbeing while practicing security...
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Published in: 50.50Women’s equality will not come after the environmental revolutionClimate and environmental impacts are ravaging our planet, and women and marginalized groups are among those most affected.
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Published in: 50.50Our movements and collective struggles thrive despite backlashActivists across the world are re-imagining their strategies, and engaging in cross-movement collaboration, in...
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Published in: 50.50Trans women and feminism: the struggle is realAt the centre of the troubled relationship between trans women and feminists are the questions of who gets to be a...
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Published in: 50.50Between tradition and feminism: modern Amazonas“We have our world and we are building feminism into it.” In the last two decades there has been a rebirth of the...
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Published in: 50.50Stay Woke: sustaining feminist organising in an uncertain worldAutonomous feminist spaces must be guarded jealously. They are an important lifeline for feminists to re-charge and...
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Published in: 50.50Justice and accountability for war related sexual violence in Sri LankaAs the testimonies of survivors of sexual violence in Sri Lanka’s long war enter the public domain and the...
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Published in: 50.50Questioning rape in ChinaChina is witnessing more and more spontaneous protests and online discussions against rape and the deeper structural...
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Published in: 50.50Sharia, security and the church: dangers of the British Home Office InquiryDoes the UK’s Sharia Review resemble the sharia ‘courts’: secretive procedures and discriminatory advisors? Are the...
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Published in: 50.50Rhetoric meets reality: ending HIV and AIDSEnding AIDS by 2030 is redundant rhetoric. It is meaningless without investment in community participation. Code red...
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Published in: 50.50A deadly politics of wealth: femicide in IndiaCensus data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The...
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Published in: 50.50The distance travelled: Beijing, Hillary, and women's rightsHillary Rodham Clinton will need to listen to the voices of women working at grassroots on the frontline, and be...
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Published in: 50.50Abortion and contraception in India: the role of menThe callous attitude of Indian men that ‘she can always abort’ in cases of an unwanted pregnancy caused by failure...
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Published in: 50.50Why the backlash against dowry laws in India?The backlash against gender-just law which seeks to protect women against dowry violence reveals the full extent of...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist Dissent: why a new journal on gender and fundamentalism?The journal Feminist Dissent creates a space to interrogate the multi-faceted links between historical and resurgent...
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Published in: 50.50Nepali widows: changing colours, changing mindsetsThe growing widows’ movement in Nepal is winning rights for single and widowed women, and challenging the...
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Published in: 50.50Refusing to recognise polygamy in the West: a solution or a soundbite?Polygamy in the UK and the West raises many questions and challenges: integration of migrant communities, ensuring...
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Published in: 50.50I shall leave as my city turns to dust: Queens of Syria and women in warIn ‘Queens of Syria’, ancient Greek tales of loss and dislocation in conflict echo through to the contemporary...
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Published in: 50.50We feel that we found our self after we lost it in the warMy home Syria is a beautiful place, but war took it from us. As refugees in Amman, rehearsing and performing...
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Published in: 50.50Disembodying honour and exposing the politics behind itThe reaction to the public stripping of a Coptic grandmother in Upper Egypt reminds us of the power of popular...
