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My Top 3 Feminist Reads: Send Nudes
Cover art for Send Nudes by Saba Sams, 2022 Send Nudes by Saba Sams, 2022 Where Madeline Miller’s Circe reclaims female agency within mythological retelling, the second narrative in my series of reviews, Saba Sams’ Send Nudes, transposes that same feminist lens...
Reclaiming ‘Witch’
While I was studying at the University of Exeter, I discovered that it was the last place in England where girls and women were publicly hanged for witchcraft. It was a poignant reminder of the enduring historical anxiety surrounding female power and autonomy, and...
2026 Heroines Quilt IX Submissions Open Now
Who were the girls and women who inspired you during your girlhood? These people were immensely important and we think they should be honored. Here at Girl Museum, every two years (even) we have an exhibition, a Heroines Quilt, to celebrate those who helped us,...
Racheltjie de Beer: Courage, Selflessness, and Family Bonds
Courage to Protect, Helen Barnard, 2025. In this second part of Racheltjie de Beer’s story, we read further of her bravery, selfless love, and the strong family ties that make her legacy so special. Her story continues to show us today that fearlessness and love...
My Top 3 Feminist Reads: Madeline Miller’s Circe
Cover art for the 2018 novel Circe by Madeline Miller via Wikipedia. For centuries, children’s and young adults literature has historically struggled regarding issues of gender representation. ‘As early as the eighteenth century, parents and educators have...
Racheltjie de Beer: Resourcefulness of a Young Girl
Great Heart, Helen Barnard, 2025. This is the first of a two-part blog series, exploring the timeless South African folktale of Racheltjie de Beer. It is a story that resonates with young girls today, because it teaches us that strength and love can shine in the face...
The Girl I Am, The Change I Carry
They always ask me where I’m from.I say, “Do you want the short story, the long one, or the one I tell when I’m tired?” I am Afghan by blood, refugee by chance. I am from Afghanistan. But I am also from exile. From long lines and temporary shelters. From border...
Lahore, One Day
Birds flying around the Badshahi Masjid, Lahore. Image by Capt pixel viaa WikiCommons. Woke up to the call,not of prayer,but a crowstealing bread off a boy’s cart. Chai in a chipped cup,Ginger, tea leaves, sugar, water more than milk,too sweet,too hot.Carack. A...
The Cranes are Flying: A Young Soviet Woman’s Life
US release poster for the soviet film, The Cranes Are Flying, (1957). John J. Lomasney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Released in 1957, The Cranes are Flying (Летят журавли) is the only Soviet film to ever win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in...
I Sent My Grandma a Vagina In the Post
A Trip to the London Vagina Museum Ode to Gy(n)a, mural (detail) produced in collaboration with Skaped and four young artists. Vagina Museum, London. Photo by Lottie Horn. There has always been something about the vagina that has intrigued me. Perhaps the symbol...