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Published in: 50.50Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow: “it's never easy to fight for what we believe in”Founding member of the Demosistō political party talked to World Forum for Democracy youth delegates about the...
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Published in: 50.50“Mum, I am into kink”: why it’s so hard to talk to parents about sexTalking about cunnilingus with parents may sound like a type of medieval torture. But we pay for silence in lost...
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Published in: 50.50Living without men: women-only organising is as old as timeAs long as patriarchal societies dominate, we shouldn’t be surprised to see women turning to single-sex spaces for...
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Published in: 50.50Tracking the backlash: why we're investigating the 'anti-rights' oppositionGrowing and globalising networks of conservative and fundamentalist groups are pushing back against our sexual and...
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Published in: 50.50Young women mobilise against ‘revenge porn’ and online abuseSurvivors of cyber attacks and young feminist digital rights activists tell of the damage done by this violence –...
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Published in: 50.50In pictures: Chouftouhonna – a North African feminist festivalThis unique arts festival began in 2015, in post-revolutionary Tunisia. This year it challenged patriarchy, gender...
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Published in: 50.50Young feminists: the future belongs to us, not transnational corporationsCorporate impunity impacts young women and girls disproportionately. Young feminists must join the growing...
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Published in: 50.50Can a feminist tech collective help end the silence around LGBTQ+ domestic abuse?The Supernova Project is a new online platform that aims to provide crucial information and support to those in...
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Published in: 50.50Harvey Weinstein: Italian media coverage of the scandal has been predictably outrageousThe Italian media has failed, once again, to focus on systems of power and abuse. Actress Asia Argento has been...
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Published in: 50.50Period poverty flows worldwide, and it’s a bloody injusticeFrom costly sanitary products to feelings of stigma and shame – why do we put up with this?
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Published in: 50.50We need personal, everyday action to end violence against womenNever laugh at a rape joke, speak out against lower wages for women. Don’t underestimate the power of everyday...
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Published in: 50.50On the warpath: the young women leading Ireland’s campaign against abortionNext year Ireland will hold a referendum on its controversial eighth amendment. Articulate, millennial “pro-life...
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Published in: 50.50“We’re not just here to learn – we can lead too”: young women human rights defenders speak outYoung activists from four continents talk about their local struggles and what motivates them.
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Published in: 50.5012 feminist authors who may not be on your college reading list – but should beThese writers and their work span the globe and its history and would complement any degree. What would you add to this list?
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Published in: 50.50“It’s so taboo but we want it so damn bad”: introducing 50.50 columnists Tiffany Mugo and Claudia TorrisiThese 50.50 authors will delight and challenge us with monthly comment and analysis about sexuality in Africa, and...
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Published in: 50.50“Change can start from us”: Roma women in Italy fight for their rightsA new generation of Roma women is rising up against multiple forms of discrimination, to claim their rights to jobs,...
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Published in: 50.50After Everest: can mountaineering tackle gender myths in Sri Lanka?Mountaineering is an elite sport, but becoming the first Sri Lankan to summit Everest has given me a rare public...
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Published in: 50.50Books for bleak times: a reading list from six British feministsWe asked Caroline Criado-Perez, Sarah Ditum, Helen Lewis, Nimco Ali, Joanna Walsh, and Bidisha which books inspire...
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Published in: 50.50Poem: For the mamas on the frontlines"I said, if mamas don’t fight for the children, then who will?" Helen Knott performed her poem at the 2017 Nobel...
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Published in: 50.50Video: Voices from the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference
Participants at the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference talk about memory, activism after trauma, what women's...
