February 2012
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Women in film
It’s the day after the Oscars so the papers are full of the usual film industry celebration and analysis of the female attendees frocks.
So I thought I’d share a video I came across on Sociological Images looking at this year’s Best Film nominees and seeing if they pass the Bechdel test. For those who are unfamiliar with it the Bechdel test is used to assess how meaningful the...
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Life, Work, World: Women Empowering Change
The second Social Media Week event I went to last week was called Life, Work, World: Women Empowering Change. It was open to both men and women but the speakers were a great line-up of three women who are doing their part to make changes in the world.
In the interests of full disclosure I should say that the host of the evening, Sinead Mac Manus is my closest friend who I’ve known since...
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Women in a Room - Is a woman’s opinion “the...
Last night I attended a Social Media Week event run by Women In A Room. The title of the event was Is a woman’s opinion “the miniskirt of the internet”? – a reference to Laurie Penny’s Independent article last year discussing the abuse that she and other women have received online for airing their opinions. The discussion for the evening was to ‘talk about whether social media is useful and...
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Sister Fa and Female Genital Cutting
Over the last week or so it’s been easy to be dragged down and disheartened as rape culture in our society seems to be as strong as ever and women get abuse for drawing attention to it. On Monday night (6th Feb) however, I had the privilege of going to see Sister Fa at the Union Chapel and was left feeling inspired and motivated by the work that women can do.
It was a night organised...