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...

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...

Meet our Volunteers: Lottie Horn

Hello! My name is Lottie Horn and I live in Southampton, UK. I recently graduated from the University of Exeter with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English and Creative Writing. Having the freedom to choose the topics I could study, has meant that for three years...

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