16th March 2024
Shedding some light on the female athletes who have inspired and impacted countless I recently found myself at Stansted Airport, specifically in one of its bookstores. While browsing through the various sections, I came across the Sports Biography section and noticed something peculiar. Out of the forty-five books displayed, there wasn’t a single book about ...
7th January 2023
Why has violence against female journalists become so normalised? I never wanted to be a journalist. As a small child I favoured many prospective careers- a princess (no eligible princes to marry), a nurse (scared of blood), a midwife (I needed a biology A-Level, which my teacher tactfully told me was potentially not the best ...
19th October 2021
Girls Night In’s media campaign are asking women to stay in on Thursday 28 October in protest of nightclubs “refusing to take seriously people’s safety”. A new social media campaign is asking females across the country to boycott clubbing on Thursday 28 October in protest of nightclubs and other venues not taking the protection of ...
20th July 2021
The Honourable Lady Rita Rae was welcomed by the Principal and SRC President in Bute Hall on Thursday The Honourable Lady Rita Rae has made University of Glasgow history by being the first female working rector to be officially installed at the University. Following her introduction and installation led by Ella McCabe, President of the ...
30th April 2021
Our columnist Haneul Lee considers whether it’s anti-feminist to label fashion coverage as insignificant. Though I am in no way a fashion expert, the media coverage of various female leaders over the past few years piqued my interest. The number of women getting involved in politics has been rising – in the UK, there has ...
21st October 2020
Why is Nolan’s portrayal of female characters so consistently terrible? A central criticism of Christopher Nolan’s films regards his representation of women, which consistently takes the form of a male character’s dead wife, thus perpetuating the “stuffed into the fridge” trope. This is such a virulent feature in TV and film that it has created ...
9th October 2020
Why the chart-topper shouldn’t just be dismissed as vulgar nonsense and why it may point to a true feminist hit. The release of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s new single WAP was accompanied by the internet’s equivalent of a pitchfork-bearing crowd. Conservative activists were quick to call the song out for its overtly sexual ...
