In The Media

Women in Power: Houston, We Still Have A Problem

Before we begin there’s a few things we should get straight about matriarchs, patriarchs, and The Patriarchy (with a capital T and P). A matriarch is a female head of a family or clan. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re considered to be the most important person of course, it just …

Pride in London’s ‘Misjudged’ Poster Campaign

Pride in London’s promotional campaign for the 2017 pride parade claims that #LoveHappensHere. As it turns out, something else happens here as well; completely pandering to a straight audience, framing LGBTQ+ people as fun novelties and completely undermining the community’s efforts to combat casual homophobia. ‘Being homophobic is sooo gay.’ …

Your Misogynoir is Showing: On Serena Williams and Women’s Tennis

For centuries now, women in sport have been belittled and degraded. Just last year, the FA caused outrage when they tweeted that the England women’s football team could “go back to being mothers, partners and daughters” now that they had finished messing around with that football lark. Even tennis-one of …

NI Abortions: Not A Solution, But A Significant Win

People of Northern Ireland will now be able to receive free abortions on the NHS in England after Labour MP Stella Creasy tabled an amendment to the Queen’s Speech. However, before the amendment was due to be debated, the government spared Theresa May a likely defeat by agreeing to the demands. …

Wonder Woman’s Marketing Mystery

In the months leading up to the highly-anticipated Wonder Woman movie, the buzz around the film was unusually quiet-and this did not go unnoticed. Summer blockbusters, especially the increasingly popular superhero movies from Marvel and DC, are usually bombarding us with marketing for at least six months before they’re released …

Courtroom or Twitter? Rape Culture in the Judiciary

Trigger warning: Discussion of rape and sexual assault throughout, including victim blaming and rape culture. — Back in 1986, Jill Saward was raped during a burglary at her father’s vicarage in West London. One defendant was given a longer sentence for his part in the burglary than her assault - …

“Can’t You Take a Joke?”

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg I’ll start by saying that I joke about everything in my life. The more serious it is, the more likely I am to be cracking jokes left, right, and centre. I’m completely aware that …

High Heels and High Nonsense

You would think common sense would prevail with dress codes in the work place, yet here we are in two thousand and flipping seventeen and still seeing archaic debates about high heels being brought forward. In March this year, Nicola Thorp created a petition after being sent home from a …
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