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Shocking Pink was a magazine by and for teenagers and young women. Spanning 1979 to 1992, the magazine’s history charts a tumultuous period in British history and politics, not to mention feminism.
The F-Word was founded in 2001 by Catherine Redfern as a place for UK feminists to write, think and discuss ideas. Since then, it’s been through a few iterations – most recently existing as a magazine ...
If Razia Yilmaz nudged passed you on London’s Edmonton Green estate, you probably wouldn’t look twice. She’s average height, even with her four inch heels on, her hair scraped back since 7am – when ...
The F-Word's fifth set of reviews from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe covering comedy, theatre and dance, physical theatre and circus ...
The F-Word is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018. We’ll be posting reviews all the way through the rest of the festival. To begin, here is the first set from F-Word comics editor, Emily ...
CW: discussion of rape and domestic violence. The discussion is non-explicit and centres around statistical/legislative contexts. No graphic accounts or images are ...
Greetings, fellow music fans! It’s with a somewhat heavy heart that I am stepping down from monthly playlist duties. This by no means suggests that I will no longer be filling your hearts and minds ...
During the course of researching and writing my recent series of essays on women and punk, one person I was eager to track down was Lucy Whitman who, as Lucy Toothpaste, wrote the punk feminist ...
Rocks opens with a group of teenage girls frolicking, dancing and singing on the rooftop of a council flat building. This scene is thrown into sharp relief against the backdrop of skyscrapers that ...
The F-Word’s second set of reviews from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe covering comedy and theatre ...
Based on Helen Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name, Jacquelin Perske’s four-part adaptation of The Cry will leave you reeling. Its twisting, nonlinear narrative unravels a gripping story that begins ...
The term ‘orgasm gap’ refers to the miserable disparity between the number of orgasms that cis women and men are having during heterosexual sex. Although the true size of the gap is unknown, on ...