An Islamist activist hacked the Facebook page of feminist group Femen’s Tunisian branch last week and posted religious messages after images of two members of the group posing topless were published on the internet
After years of negotiations, the general tide of public conscience being progressive and pro-equality, and the support from Rowan Williams,…
Syria’s media war is being waged with gory images from the ground. But preconceived notions about subservient Middle Eastern women could lead the world to assume that there have been no women active on the ground in Syria. This is simply not true: we’re just not looking hard enough.
In this series of photographs by Yemeni photographer Bushra Almutawakel challenges the notion of identity in the Muslim world and illustrates how women could vanish into darkness and invisibility, step by step, under fundamentalist pressure and the full niqab.
The next time you encounter the rage-inducing phrase that feminism is ‘dead’ or ‘obsolete’ (“We have the vote, after all. What more can these bra-burning bitches want?”), point the speaker in the direction of Annie Gardiner of Hysterical Injury, who shocked Bristol Ladyfest 2012 with her installation piece ‘For Whatever Reason’. Built from stacks of NME magazines from 1989 to 2008, Gardiner’s piece acts as a visual representation of the clear gender inequality in the music industry.