Archive | Comment

Disability & the Welfare Reform Bill: a woman’s story

Jane Osmond WVoN co-editor Nancy, who suffers from anxiety-based depression, has been unable to work for nearly ten years because of her condition. She is one of many women who suffer from depressive-type illnesses. Figures provided by the Mental Health Foundation in the UK show that women are more likely to be treated for a mental health [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment, News0 Comments

Facebook, nude photos and online harassment

Jane Osmond WVoN co-editor Last year, Women’s Views on News went into battle with Facebook because it would not remove a page containing rape jokes, stating that ‘just as telling a rude joke won’t get you thrown out of your local pub, it won’t get you thrown off Facebook’. After four months, during which time the [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment, News7 Comments

Asma al-Assad, the ambassadors’ wives and the “first lady” media sideshow

Julie Tomlin WVoN co-editor Has the video message imploring Asma al-Assad to use her influence over her husband the President of Syria to stop the bloodshed in her country showed us the limits of internet campaigning or just the limits of the media? The four-minute clip, which has already been watched by more than 200,000 [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment, News1 Comment

Hunt for equality goes viral – 10 feminist videos

Sarah Cheverton WVoN co-editor I’ve been hugely inspired of late by the fantastic work of Anita Sarkeesian, founder of the fantastic Feminist Frequency site. A feminist media critic, Sarkeesian has single-handedly broadened my knowledge of representations of women in pop culture. After losing many, many hours to the site, I began to get really interested [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment5 Comments

Sign the petition against ABORT67

Holly Peacock WVoN co-editor  As the abortion debate continues in the UK, the focus for many pro-choice supporters is now on the actions of anti-abortion group ABORT67. The activist group, which is based in Brighton on England’s south coast, “seeks to change the way we think about abortion” and wants the reversal of the 1967 [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment4 Comments

How much does it cost to ‘own’ a vagina?

Meg Kissack WVoN co-editor The world seems to be going crazy about vaginas. Apparently it’s okay to have one, but not to be in control of it. In the US, there is a national debate regarding birth control, with presidential candidates taking sides on what they call ‘the issue of abortion’ – as if it [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment0 Comments

Where do the funny women go?

Karen Whiteley WVoN co-editor  Where are the funny women?  We all know the answer to that one, don’t we? They’re nowhere.  Because women aren’t funny, amirite? Speaking as a women who is generally considered by friends and co-workers to be utterly hilarious, I’m not sure where this leaves me. Equally, I’m not sure where it [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment3 Comments

‘Together we are stronger’: Team Girl Comic

Rosy Moorhead WVoN features editor The zine Team Girl Comic came into being because one young, female comics creator in Glasgow felt rather lonely. “I wanted more comic friends!” laughs creator, editor and co-ordinator Gill Hatcher. “I felt a bit isolated. I’d been making my own photocopied comic books and selling them locally in a [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment0 Comments

Disability: the Cinderella of feminism?

Jane Osmond WVoN co-editor Today, I wrote an article about the appalling situation Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson found herself in recently when she had to throw her wheelchair onto a rail station platform and crawl after it. I contacted Philippa of the feminist blog site the F-Word for her comments on this situation from her point of [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment20 Comments

Identity politics fragment society, says Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Cheverton WVoN co-editor This week, Dr Rowan Williams went on the record to tell racial, sexual and sexuality equality activists that it’s time for us to quit talking about the differences between us and start talking about what unites us. You can find coverage from The Telegraph here, although I can’t help but think [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Comment3 Comments

The Bridge
allmumkind
Luxury Accessories
Placement
Gym directory
Directory placement
 
Want a picture with your comment? Get a Gravatar.
 

WHAT WE’RE SAYING ON TWITTER

 

FIND US ON FACEBOOK

 

ARCHIVES

 

CATEGORIES