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Published in: 50.50What it means to be a woman and a survivor of war in KosovoSocial stigma, spotty enforcement of inheritance laws, and inconsistent government policies have all made things...
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Published in: 50.50India's wandering women with camerasThe feminist documentary film festival in Mumbai, ‘Wandering Women’, opens up questions of how gender identity in...
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Published in: 50.50Friendship and violence: the genius of Elena FerranteElena Ferrante’s novels have become a word of mouth success, despite the Italian literary world’s snobbery, because...
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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn and the myth of the hysterical womanIt is an indictment of the status quo that policies which will benefit women and people of colour are being...
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Published in: 50.50Lebanon's refugees: resisting hegemony through cultureSeenaryo, a small independent theatre project that starts this week with Syrian and Palestinian children, seeks to...
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Published in: 50.50Salvaging the luminosity of a lost cityWhile the murder of hundreds of women in Juárez, Mexico, eventually attracted international attention – and with it,...
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Published in: 50.50The 2015 US Trafficking Report: signs of decline?The US Trafficking in Persons Report exposes exploitation and holds governments to account. But creeping...
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Published in: 50.50Jeremy Corbyn and women’s experiences of austerityJeremy Corbyn’s bid for Labour Party leadership may also mean that the damage of austerity, particularly to women,...
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Published in: 50.50Misogyny and homophobia: patriarchy, gender policing, and the male gazeUntil there is gender equality, we can’t live in a world free of homophobia.
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Published in: 50.50AIDS targets: the fear factorHIV is not just a health issue but a multi-sectoral issue that requires many different players. Is the UNAIDS HIV...
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Published in: 50.50HIV and AIDS: language and the blame gameThe negative and dehumanizing language used by scientists discussing global HIV policy is sapping the soul of those...
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Published in: 50.50Doing gender justice in northern UgandaThe efforts of NGOs and international organisations to gradually nudge post-war northern Uganda towards a ‘gender...
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Published in: 50.50Those who believe in freedom: Yara SallamYara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women's prison outside Cairo. She says, "I do not...
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Published in: 50.50Pragna Patel: a politics of hope and not hate
"At the heart of my work is the idea that human beings are to be intrinsically valued, that we can all co-exist...
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Published in: 50.50Enduring civilisation, enduring empire?The "Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation" exhibition at the British Museum leads to the overarching question...
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Published in: 50.50Towards Plan F: planning for a feminist economy in the UKFeminists must reject mainstream austerity rhetoric and challenge politicians to adopt an alternative 'Plan F' to...
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Published in: 50.50Reddit, Ellen Pao, and the false neutrality of ‘free speech’It would be disingenuous to look at what happened to former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao without factoring in endemic sexism...
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Published in: 50.50Re-telling stories: Alice Munro’s portraits of Albanian heartsThe Nobel Prize winner’s exploration, from afar, of Albanian women’s lives layers upon a history of female stories,...
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Published in: 50.50Neoliberal moralism and the fiction of Europe: a postcolonial perspectiveThe Greek crisis reveals the way in which neoliberalism continues the instrumentalisation of internal critique that...
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Published in: 50.50Addressing global taxation and gender equality
The increased call on countries to maximise local revenue in order to finance their own development agenda adds to...
