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Bumped Off Course

By Row + April 6th, 2010

Why Oxbridge women are left behind in the boat race

Write for Agendered

By agendered admin + March 15th, 2010

The new theme is ‘masculinity’..

Many women are feminists. Most people have several feminist friends. Yet, I don’t know a single one who doesn’t, at least sometimes, wear make-up.

Why I love feminism…

By Row + July 18th, 2009

Slam poetry written at midnight

Women’s bodies don’t really belong to them. That goes double for the poor, women of colour, HIV positive women and any other group that society can single out as less than “normal”.

Writing Women—The ‘Ugly’ Clause

By zooey + June 17th, 2009

There appears to be an unwritten rule of women’s magazine journalism that states no matter how staggeringly, jaw-splittingly, super-humanly attractive a female interviewee is there must be at least one conversation between subject and journalist about the subject’s (imaginary) flaws.

A “white male hetro rep”? Wtf?!

By Row + June 10th, 2009

The difference between humour and dangerous immaturity

Terrifying week for women in politics

By Row + June 7th, 2009

The last 7 days has left women in politics disillusioned, demonised and dismissed out of office

Congratulations, Alice Munro

By zooey + May 27th, 2009

News of Alice Munro’s Man Booker International prize win is cause for celebration. Not just because she’s a woman but because she has relentlessly followed her muse. In terms of publishing she has done everything wrong.

Poetic justice?

By Row + May 27th, 2009

Ruth Padel’s resignation may have been necessary, but leaves bigger questions about Oxbridge sexism unanswered

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