What Gloria Taught Me

Gloria Steinem (right) and Alice Walker celebrate Steinem’s 75th birthday in the Fall 2009 issue of Ms. magazine. By Ms. magazine, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47476755 This is the Gloria Steinem I remember. A fierce advocate for...

I Hate Men

Image from @ikeahostage_ on Pinterest A phrase I’ve heard all my life. Most commonly at the drawn-out end of a long club night. When the dregs of us make one final stumbling trip to the toilet and find another heartbroken girl, swallowed up by misery upon the...

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...

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...

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...

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