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18 April 2025
The #MeToo Legacy: Here's what we learned...
As our series on the arts and cultural impact of #MeToo concludes, it's time to take a look at some of the lessons we can take away from writing about the issue of gender equality in the arts.
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9 April 2025
The #MeToo Legacy: 7 powerful films and where to stream them
Since the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood has taken on the stories of the #MeToo movement with some powerful and essential MeToo movies. Here are some of the best ones and how to watch them.
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7 April 2025
Edinburgh feminist theatre company showcases real ‘Living HERstory’ of the city
Five up-and-coming female playwrights explore the lives of five women who made an impact in Edinburgh - including Scotland’s youngest suffragette and the first black woman to study at the University of Edinburgh
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2 April 2025
Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season: What makes a romantasy, and why this isn't one
Samantha Shannon recently published the fifth novel in her dystopian series The Bone Season. Where does this unique blend of genre, tropes, and original writing fit into the modern literary landscape? And what does or doesn't make a romantasy?
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31 March 2025
Is This Just Fantasy: The rise of romantasy
Romantasy fiction has taken the publishing industry by storm, but how did this happen? Which writers are considered romantasy authors, and why are they all women? Most importantly, we have to ask what romantasy even means.
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25 March 2025
Is This Just Fantasy: 'Romantasy' as new genre or misogynistic label?
The rise of 'romantasy' has taken publishing by storm. So what is this new so-called genre, and how does it relate to the treatment of female authors by audiences? Voice Intern Eva Carolan explores the phenomenon in her new editorial series.
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8 March 2025
International Women's Day: Has #MeToo made a real impact?
We've marked International Women's Day by asking young women whether they feel the #MeToo movement has truly brought about change, as we're discussing in our new series The #MeToo Legacy.
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5 March 2025
#MeToo Legacy: Eliza Hatch tackles street harassment with photography
Eight years ago, photographer Eliza Hatch launched the photo series Cheer Up Luv, in which she documents stories of sexual harassment through survivors' eyes. She told Voice about how her work has evolved.
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28 February 2025
The #MeToo Legacy: Has the literary world truly changed?
The #MeToo movement reshaped conversations about power, consent, and justice. But has it significantly changed the literary world?
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15 January 2025
The literary canon: A gradual feminist schooling
Is the canon a feminist? Has the canon become more feminist over the years? Does the canon affect the education system we feed to the youth of our world? Let's explore the literary canon as a team.
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20 October 2024
Silenzio: Lose yourself to insanity… or get lost on the way.
This is no traditional opera. Four striking women take to the sold-out stage to stupefy the art scene, distorting female societal standards.
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11 April 2024
The unsung heroes of our success
Viewing the unpaid and undervalued domestic labour of women through a Marxist lens.
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24 February 2024
Musclebound UK tour opens in London
Hilarious and provocative, award-winning Rosy Carrick asks what are the sexual lessons we want to pass on to our daughters – and what do we still need to learn for ourselves? Runs 65 mins, no interval. Age guide 14+
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8 September 2023
Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me
An obscenely unapologetic hour of hard-hitting truths and outrageous laughs
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12 June 2023
Pleasure Little Treasure: Growing Up as a Woman in 90s' Post-Soviet Estonia
This autobiographical one-woman show takes you back to the first-ever strip club of post-Soviet Estonia in the 90s and tells you about the struggles of growing up under the male gaze.
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8 March 2023
Embracing equity this International Women's Day
The theme for this international women’s day is embracing equity, and there couldn’t be a better time to have this conversation.
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23 December 2022
Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair by Ella McLeod
Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair is a magnificent retelling of Rapunzel that is infused with Afro-Caribbean culture.
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21 September 2022
Interview with award-winning author Pumla Dineo Gqola
Award-winning author Pumla Dineo Gqola speaks to us about her latest book, Female Fear Factory, and how the only way for women to have a brighter tomorrow is to dismantle the patriarchy altogether.