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  • Josephine Butler

    How Josephine Butler is remembered across the country

    Letters: From churches to a college, readers on how the feminist is kept alive in the public consciousness
  • Holly Willoughby in a purple dress at an awards ceremony in September 2023

    Holly Willoughby speaks out after man convicted of plot to rape and murder her

    Presenter says women should not be made to ‘feel unsafe going about our daily lives’ after Gavin Plumb convicted of plan to abduct her
    • Alma Mater review – skeletons escape closets in campus rape drama

    • ‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever

    • Ten years after a celebrity summit promised to end rape as a weapon of war, is there any change for the women of South Sudan?

  • ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY - press film still - Orlando trio

    ‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

    He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, and his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary
  • Two women in polling booths

    ‘This ain’t a culture war’: the UK women who feel politically homeless

  • Manizha Talash, Ray Bassil and Alexandra Ndolo

    In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

  • George Richmond’s 1851 portrait of Josephine Butler.

    Brief letters
    A fitting tribute to Josephine Butler

    Brief letters: Feminist figures | Labour landslide | Farage’s BBC boycott | Election vision from Dylan | Mose Allison’s lyrics
  • Emma and Nicole sitting on a sofa

    ‘We now feel proud to be mixed’: the blessings and biases of being biracial

    What does it really mean to be mixed race today? When Nicole Ocran met Emma Slade Edmondson they discovered an instant bond in their shared experience
  • Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves

    ‘Mansplaining’ UK election coverage marginalises women’s concerns, study finds

    Media reporting on the campaign is overwhelmingly dominated by men, say researchers
  • Woman walking near a flooded road and a portable sign that reads 'community support facility'

    ‘War zone stuff’: women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters

    Women should be at centre of climate policies as they face increased rates of violence and homelessness after disasters, researchers say
  • Natasha Walter

    Gender, poverty, violence: all matter to women, and all must matter to Labour

    Natasha Walter
    The 14 grinding years of Conservative rule have been devastating for too many women
  • Supporters at the Yes to Marriage Equality Rally in Adelaide

    History shows Australian laws have left minorities marginalised. A Human Rights Act would help fix that

    Michael Kirby
    Instead of inquiries and apologies, a bill of rights could give people access to justice and ensure governments are held to account
    • The Week in Patriarchy
      Perimenopause finally gets more attention – because there’s something in it for men

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • The shocking case of Natasha O’Brien shows that Ireland is still a cold country for women

      Justine McCarthy
    • ‘Guess what? Mummy is a sex worker’: the sexologist who wants to build a ‘slutopia’ for women

  • A woman poses in a crouch with a sword and shield in a training room

    Sword Granny: meet the 82-year-old dedicated to teaching India’s oldest martial art

    Amid rising crimes against women, Meenakshi Raghavan is dedicated to passing on the ancient skills of Kalaripayattu
  • a protester holds a blue and white sign that reads 'keep abortion legal'

    US supreme court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now

  • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

    Rights and freedom
    Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

    Fawzia Koofi
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