feminism Articles

Bex Bailey finds encouragement from Jess Phillips’ feminist volume ‘You will never be popular’, starts Jess Phillips – words spoken to her by Harriet Harman when she first began speaking out for women in parliament. Women who speak out tend to receive a barrage of...

Gendered violence is a major killer of trans people, but it's not the only one, writes Natacha Kennedy Anti-trans activists have been campaigning against trans people’s human rights since the 1970s, and one of them infamously called for trans people to be 'morally...

In a post-Brexit Britain, international conventions and the obligations they create become more important than ever before. They provide for us an important external perspective and the necessary scrutiny to shine a light on the unintended or ill-thought-through...

Emily Brothers, former Labour parliamentary candidate for Sutton and Cheam, writes that Labour needs 'trans respect not transphobia'. It is a shame that she makes this call using language that is, at best, dismissive of the feminist movement and at worst taps into...