Posted on 23 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 23 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 20 April 2012.
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 [...]
Posted on 20 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 17 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 13 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 12 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 11 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 02 April 2012.
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 [...]
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Posted on 30 March 2012.
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 [...]
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