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Published in: 50.50: OpinionPatriarchy, not biology, disadvantages cis women in sportBlaming trans women for the disadvantages faced by women in sport lets the real culprit off the hook
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureWhy this Italian MP launched a book-long protest against patriarchyLaura Boldrini has been fighting for women’s rights and against sexism for years. Her new book demands both outrage...
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Published in: 50.50This new political party in Poland wants to ‘re-Christianise’ EuropeFather Rydzyk controls a media empire accused of amplifying homophobic and sexist views. Now, he’s seen as the...
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Published in: 50.50Don’t forget the working-class women who made suffragette historyA century after some UK women won the vote, most of the suffragette stories we hear still focus on the elite. But...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist comedians are laughing at privilege – and it’s funnyComedy that targets oppressed groups is outdated. These feminists are using humour to speak truth to power.
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Published in: 50.50Gender equality in Europe ‘advancing at snail’s pace’Women's rights debates take centre stage at this year's World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
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Published in: HomeGender egalitarianism made us human: patriarchy was too little, too lateThe original rule was that against rape, ‘No means NO’, a woman’s body is sacred if she says so. Here is my story...
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Published in: 50.50‘Feminism is cancer’: the angry backlash against our reporting on the men’s rights movement50.50's recent dispatch on this movement received hundreds of comments and messages on social media. We read them so...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 4: The men’s rights movement50.50 attended an international gathering of men’s rights activists in London and spoke to some of the men, and...
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Published in: 50.50The exploitation of Mayan women’s art is a story of racism, sexism – and global capitalismMayan women’s bodies, labour and knowledge have been exploited for centuries. This is an old story, with a...
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Published in: 50.50‘Young men should be furious’: Inside the world’s largest gathering of men’s rights activists50.50 spent a (fairly) fact-free weekend among anti-feminists at London’s International Conference on Men’s Issues
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Published in: 50.50To end violence against women we must tackle patriarchy – and povertyViolence against women is perpetrated in order to sustain patriarchal power relations. Projects to prevent violence,...
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Published in: 50.50Italy’s new government is bad news for women and minoritiesThere will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 3: Why we need feminist investigative journalismAt the 2018 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, 50.50 organised a panel on feminist investigative...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist bots vs right-wing trolls: Brazil’s gender justice movements cross new frontiersAbortion has long been criminalised in Brazil. It is an issue that many have all but given up on – except for...
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Published in: 50.50Divisive populists are a “main obstacle” to women’s rights“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy...
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Published in: 50.50The problem with populist gender equality-by-numbersIt’s important to have more women in public and political debates. But having a seat at the table isn’t the same...
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Published in: 50.50We need to talk about how we learn to accept our own oppressionThe more women stand up against bullies and harassment in our personal lives, the less we will tolerate them in our...
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Published in: 50.50Where are the investigative journalists challenging patriarchy?Amid growing threats to our sexual and reproductive rights, and enduring inequality, discrimination and gender-based...
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Published in: 50.502017 in feminist protests: in picturesWomen around the world led protests in 2017 for our rights and against threats from everyday sexism to femicide.
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