feminism

  • Why Feminist Burnout Feels So Lonely

    In some city, in some room washed blue by the light of a screen, there is a girl discovering that awareness is much easier to awaken than it is to survive. At first, knowing felt like coming up for air. Like breathing after being held underwater and realising that there was an entirely different world…

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  • Old Money, New Misogyny

    We like to pretend fashion exists outside politics, that trends emerge from creativity alone, untouched by power, fear, or history. As if silhouettes rise and fall by accident, and designers pivot from bold to restrained on a whim. But fashion has always responded to shifts in power the way sodium reacts to water: visibly, violently,…

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  • Redefining femininity

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  • Breaking Free

    “Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property” -Napoleon Bonaparte Do you wonder what life could be like if we could rewrite the rules? Not the flashy ones to plaster over billboards and TV screens, but the quiet ones that have practically shaped the way we think. It’s as though we’ve been…

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  • Pro-life or Pro-choice?

    “Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable of is guilty of murder” -St. Augustine, acclaimed to be the first Christian philosopher Is a woman’s only worth found in her womb, measured against gold on a scale? Is she not a full human being with her own thoughts,…

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  • Beyond the Veil

    “It’s like having a flower, or a rose. You water it and keep it at home for yourself, to look at it and smell it. It [a woman] is not supposed to be taken out of the house to be smelled.“ -Syed Ghaisuddin, Taliban Minister of Education, when asked why women needed to be confined…

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