When pubs, clubs, and bars reopen after lockdown, will our attitudes towards women be any different?

"I ask"

"The crux of The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye is about the validity of voice and what it means to have a voice removed, echoed both in my personal life and the political landscape."

A relatively quiet month, but still plenty to unpack!

Gold Arts Award Unit 1 Part D 

What is the Sexy Lamp Test? 'If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still functions, you're a hack' – Kelly Sue DeConnick.

Bad date? Me too.

Considered controversial in the state of Bavaria, Germany, and subsequently banned in their hometown of Regensburg, bambule.babys talks about feminism and patriarchy, rape, #metoo, and how all of this is explored in their new show Baby Paradise.

The 2018 Golden Globe Awards proved to be controversial, for reasons other than the winners. The occasion became primarily a stage upon which countless celebrities projected their views on the recent exposure of the corruption in Hollywood.

While last year’s ceremony firmly took aim at Drumpf and his rhetoric, this year protested something arguably far greater.

The #metoo hashtag has sparked dozens of allegations against big names in Hollywood, but when the legal system can't adequately deal with this, what can the industry do?

There's a lot of news and comment ground to cover here. First, I'll try and fail to summarise the events briefly.