If Muslim women’s clothing makes them consenting slaves, who are their slave...
by Shohana Khan Last week French Women’s Rights Minister Laurence Rossignol likened how Muslim women dress to being in collusion with slavery, roundly offending a vast number of groups. Quite an...
View ArticleBeyoncé and Resistance
by Désirée Wariaro In the autumn of 2001, photos of the stoned, dirty-looking white guys in the Strokes are plastered across my bedroom wall and I brag about getting great tickets to see their sold out...
View ArticleFGM as spectacle: the dehumanisation and commodification of the black girl
Warning: the following post contains images that readers may find graphic or disturbing. by Firdos Ali Follow @Firdoswrites Last week, FGM campaigner Hibo Wardere broke the news that Sky had filmed the...
View ArticleThe Rise of Pussy Envy
by Aisha Josiah Recently, I’ve heard an interesting refrain from male friends who have seen the newly released Wonder Woman film. It sounds something like: “After watching those fight scenes, I kinda...
View ArticleSouth Asian women in Britain: Finding a voice, 40 years on
“If we remember our rich collective past, we will find ourselves stronger in the battles ahead” Gouri Sharma talks with journalist and activist Amrit Wilson, forty years after her influential feminist...
View ArticleBook Review: It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism,...
Mariam Khan’s It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race is an anthology of seventeen British Muslim women speaking frankly about their lives, from the hijab and...
View ArticleWhy Janelle Monaé’s Grammy loss was unsurprising yet significant
Janelle Monaé’s critically acclaimed Dirty Computer lost out on Album of Year award at this year’s Grammy awards. Ayika Tshimanga revisits the album and its significance to marginalised people At the...
View ArticleWhite feminists’ views on Shamima Begum are a failure for all young women of...
Reaction to the news of Shamima Begum’s loss of her son are still lacking in humanity and empathy, even from white feminists, and as Shaista Aziz writes, that has a real impact on young women of colour...
View ArticleFemonationalism: White saviour feminism in Afghanistan
“Western” feminists often discuss and offer solutions for the position of women in Afghanistan, however as Munazza Ebtikar writes, these viewpoints are often stripped of the context of decades of...
View ArticleFor bell hooks
What has been so profoundly stirring about the tributes to the black feminist cultural critic and scholar bell hooks, is the breadth of the lives that her words and teaching touched. Each tribute, a...
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