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The retaliation against ‘Women Who Eat on Tubes’… and why it’s excellent.
If you spend much time on Facebook and are acquainted with some particularly voyeuristic dickbags, you may have become aware of a recent phenomenon called ‘Women Who Eat on Tubes’ (WWEOT). If you...
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‘Don’t Risk Dudeness’– An Open Letter to Veet
If you want to watch a couple of the ads before you read, here are the links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCHLXQffsg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5vO6MZn4WI Dear Veet, Your inspired,...
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The ‘Friend Zone’ and the Culture of Entitlement
What is a woman? Put simply, a woman is a person. A woman is not a commodity, or an object, or a set of orifices. A woman, as a person, has feelings, aspirations and rights. This information isn’t new...
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Gender Stereotypes and Halloween Costumes
With everything from Emma Watson to Malala Yousafzai to Reeva Steenkamp monopolizing our TV screens and Facebook feeds, sexism is as relevant today as it was when Mary Wollstonecraft first put quill to...
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Man Hating, Bra Burning: What is Feminism Really?
Feminists are man haters – irrational bra burning women who want to take over the world, right? Most people who identify as feminist have probably been called or assumed to fit one of these...
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Eastenders’ is Right to Cast a Trans Actor in a Trans Role
EastEnders’ current executive producer, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, announced last month that the 30-year-old soap would introduce its first ever trans character. After American TV has been pioneering...
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Equality on the River: the first women’s Boat Race with the same coverage as...
Tomorrow marks the famed Oxford/Cambridge boat race, the 159th one in its history. But, it is only the first one that the women’s teams will race on the same day and on the same course as the men, with...
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Interrogations: A Poem
By Vidita Priyadarshini He asked me why I wore pajamas to college. Where is the skinny jeans-wearing, hairless creature that once was, beginning of the term. Then he asked me to not wear jeans – The...
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Sandi Toksvig Launches ‘Women’s Equality Party’
Sandi Toksvig announced yesterday that she is quitting her comedy career and setting up a new political party called the Women’s Equality Party. They won’t be fielding any candidates in the upcoming...
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Travelling Exclusions: My Experience of “Boys’ Clubs”
My boyfriend is travelling with me at the moment. I have been planning this trip for a year now, and him coming along is great. It gives me confidence enough to hitchhike, something I would not be...
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Why I take Women’s Studies
Freshers’ week at Oxford, like any other University, demands the recycling of that same monotony of questions: where are you from? What do you study? Why did you choose Oxford, etcetera? At graduate...
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“But what about International MEN’S Day?”
“Why is there no international men’s day?” is a question I have been asked five times in the week running up to International Women’s Day. That’s five different men who see a day celebrating the...
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How going for dinner with my Uber driver changed my worldview
It was the second week of my new life in London when I had my very first Uber experience. Having moved from a tiny seaside village in Scotland, I was spending every day wide-eyed, over-stimulated and...
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Six Feet Over: What It’s Really Like to Be a Tall Woman
Many people are surprised to hear that I forget that I am tall. Granted, being 6’2” as a twenty-year-old woman is unusual, though living against the grain of the omnipresent gender height binary is...
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Putting Ourselves Back Together After Trauma
My brother once told me that we break to put ourselves back together again. In the first few hours of this year, 2016, I was not broken but fragile. I longed to be wrapped up all warm and snug in a...
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Falling short: why women should play five-set tennis
Wimbledon is the oldest-reaching slam. Its first tournament ran during 1877: a tournament open strictly to men, as one considered women too weak to grind five-sets out. So when the women’s competition...
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