Sheila Rowbotham helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain and is now known internationally for her writings on the history of feminism and social justice campaigns. In her latest memoir, she invites us to witness the birth of women’s liberation, as it...
Social distancing at Tesco supermarket in Haslemere at the start of the pandemic (Credit: Simon Burchell) At the beginning of the pandemic, I think we all felt the same sense of fear and panic about Covid as anyone else. We expected the next person we interacted with...
Earlier this year, an excerpt from the Diary of a CEO podcast went viral. The clip was from an interview with Molly-Mae Hague – Love Island alum, social influencer and Creative Director at fashion brand PrettyLittleThing – in which she made comments about poverty,...
Mapping of Indonesian forest fires by Forensic Architecture in collaboration with FIBGAR, 2017. Credit: Forensic Architecture, 2018 Eyal Weizman is a professor of spatial and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he started the Centre for Research...
Photographic print by Pavel Valenzuela at the Dis/Locating Cultures of Equality exhibition Last October, I curated an art exhibition featuring work from the Global Gender and Cultures of Equality (GlobalGRACE) project, a four-year research project based in Bangladesh,...
Bruce Kent and Kate Hudson outside the Russian Embassy, Spring 2022. Photo by Pádraig McCarrick This is Part Two in a two-part interview between Hilary Wainwright and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) activists Kate Hudson and Bruce Kent, which took place as they...
From left: Bruce Kent and Kate Hudson outside the Russian Embassy, Spring 2022; Bruce Kent at the budget day protest, 2012. Photos by Pádraig McCarrick / CND Bruce Kent led the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1980s, when the peace movement successfully...
Sofia Karim (Photo by Lylah Sanderson) My activism began in August 2018, when my uncle was arrested and disappeared by the Bangladeshi police. We got a phone call saying, ‘Your uncle has been taken. We don’t know where he is.’ From that point, I began campaigning and...
(Credit: Gobierno de la Ciudad de México) In London, cases of femicide in public spaces such as streets, squares and parks, perpetrated by strangers, including in one instance by a serving police officer, have dramatically illustrated that women and girls are not free...
(Credit: Gobierno de la Ciudad de México) In London, cases of femicide in public spaces such as streets, squares and parks, perpetrated by strangers, including in one instance by a serving police officer, have dramatically illustrated that women and girls are not free...
‘Denial’ is not an obviously political song. The reasons it took political dimensions are complex – both socio-political and aesthetic. It brings two worlds together, that of the measured diplomat Seferis, and the fiery, larger-than-life Theodorakis. So why is it that...
Park View School, now Rockwood Academy, was at the heart of the so-called trojan horse affair. The recent, gripping New York Times podcast on the trojan horse affair has re-opened the injustice dealt to a poor, mainly Muslim, community in Birmingham, its schools, and...