By Kayden Schumacher and Angharad Morgan 24th June 2026 As Pride Month 2026 draws to a close, many LGBTQ+ communities around the world have celebrated hard-won progress whilst also navigating an ever-growing sense of uncertainty. Globally, debates about gender, sexuality and human rights have become increasingly polarised, with marginalised communities often finding themselves at the…
Deirdre Duffy is a Reader in Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University. This blog is a truncated excerpt from: Duffy, D. forthcoming. Abortion Trail Activism: The Global Projects for Abortion Access. Bloomsbury. Anti-abortion regimes are fertile ground for activisms dedicated to enabling abortion access. What is interesting about them is not just the work they…
People protesting Poland’s near-total abortion ban. Salvatore Allotta / Shutterstock Subscribe to get access Read more of this content when you subscribe today. Log in Claire Pierson, University of Liverpool The global landscape of reproductive rights is constantly shifting. The US Supreme Court ruling that has overturned Roe v Wade – the landmark 1973 decision…
The lockdown of the UK and other countries across the world due to COVID-19 has revealed much about domestic life and work: from Indian women calling for prime minister Narendra Modi to insist men do their share of the housework, to the added childcare and home-schooling pressures disproportionately affecting women. Within academia, research outputs of female scholars have plummeted…
More young people are studying GCSE history than ever before. As the guardians of our past, history teachers have a tremendous responsibility to ensure that these young people have access to a wide range of historical narratives. Women’s history, in particular, needs to be brought to the forefront. Recent statistics show that history is the most…
Discussions about consent have entered the mainstream in the last few years, from consent workshops at universities to the open secret of endemic sexual violence being exposed in the media. However, a focus on white, famous women has obscured the roots of the #MeToo movement which was founded by Tarana Burke, a black activist. Originally created…
In a previous post at the FWSA blog I discussed the underrepresentation of women as authors of articles in academic psychology journals. I presented the table shown below which demonstrates the number of women authors compared to male authors in seven psychology journals between the years 1997 to 2010. Among these journals was The Scandinavian…
By Everyday Victim Blaming The identity of Elena Ferrante is a secret well-guarded by her publisher. At the request of Ferrante. Ferrante has made it clear on multiple occasions that she does not want her art confused with her real life. This may not seem something that our campaign would necessarily concern ourselves with but…
By Mohammed Subhan Hussain They acknowledge no right for you, and they do not credit you with a memory[1]. Introduction Law is an ideologically-driven social construct and not a watertight entity capturing the entirety of life. As such, it is rooted in certain man-made confines. As man is open to interpret the law, there are three main categories by which this occurs: philosophically, legally and economically. This paper will…
By Liz Kinnamon The “sensitive guy” should be understood through the lens of what pop psychologists call emotional manipulation, and his proliferation is the result of two things: the rise of feminism and the rise of immaterial labor. At Cannes 2015, a crowd of hundreds competed for entry into a midnight screening of what was called “the…
