Tag: Feminism
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Lee Miller: Feminist Icon, Surrealist Muse, and War Photographer
Discover the extraordinary life of Lee Miller—fashion model turned surrealist muse, feminist icon, and fearless **war photographer**. From her early trauma to capturing iconic images of World War II and defying Hitler in his own bathtub, Miller’s story is one of resilience, creativity, and rebellion. With the new Tate Britain exhibition opening, there’s no better…
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Bronte: my Gladiator Queen
Finally, after years of speculation, and a half-hearted comeback on a rarely watched subscriber channel, we did get Gladiator back on our entertainment schedules. The Saturday tea time show of the 90s that got us screaming at our five-channel, blown glass screens. The new show proved every bit as entertaining as the parents program two…
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Awakening the Pen
Alison Little talks us through the influences behind her novel: Causal Nexus and her hopes for the future of the works. The initial motivation to pen Causal Nexus was rapidly prior to reading Nathan Fillers Costa 2013 Book of the year: ‘The shock of the Fall’. Submerged by the vividly pragmatic fiction, Filer bestows an…
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
…Fantastic Sex Scenes Beautiful World Where Are You is Sally Rooney’ hot ticketed, successive, novel. After the grand-slam of Normal People, enacted into a BB3 series, then aired on BBC 1 amidst lockdown restrictions, her new novel was much anticipated. Book shops opened early for its UK release; September 7th, within five day it had…
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When ‘the Rag’ is ‘the Rag’
Let’s talk about Period Poverty Period Poverty identifies with women and girls not able to afford menstruation products. Equally, the lack of understanding around menstruation and aims to reduce taboos around the subject. The latest research from Plan International UK in regards to Period Poverty dates to December 2017. (https://plan-uk.org/media-centre/plan-international-uks-research-on-period-poverty-and-stigma) To summarize: 10% of girls…
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Oppression; the push-up bra
Oppression: the push-bra Oppression identifies with a core item of woman’ under apparel as a leader in female subjugation: the Push-up bra. A push-up bra pushes the breasts abnormally upwards to present the image of a larger cleavage. It is a fantastical projection of what women should look like, an imaged informed by the…
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