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Tag: #MeToo

Chauvo-Feminism: men, women, and feminism in the aftermath of #MeToo

15th February 2021  Rebecca Savage

Sam Mills explores the rise of the ‘chauvo-feminist’ and asks, while women have been focusing on empowerment, have some men simply changed tactics?

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: #MeToo, chauvo-feminism, Consent, Feminism, Indigo Press, relationships, Sam Mills

Interview with performance artist, Louise Orwin – “I hate this toxic idea that if women become empowered it’s taking something away from men”

20th January 202012th February 2020  Carla Plieth

Award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin talks to our Arts contributor Carla Plieth about her latest project Oh Yes Oh No and its exploration of female sexual desire, the #MeToo movement, her creative process and more.

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Posted in Arts, Interviews, TheatreTagged: #MeToo, A Girl and a Gun, Feminism, Kill Kill Cry Cry, Louise Orwin, Oh Yes Oh No, Performance, Pretty Ugly, Sex, Theatre, Theresamaysmackdown

Still, We’ll Rise Once Again…

30th December 201930th December 2019  Melissa Chemam

Journalist, writer and lecturer Melissa Chemam reflects on the Arnolfini’s recent exhibition Still, I Rise, the cultural history of Bristol and her experience as the gallery’s writer in residence.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: #MeToo, Arnolfini, Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol, Extinction Rebellion, Feminisim, Hayv Kahraman, Judy Chicago, Massive Attack, Maya Angelou, Monica Sjöö, Pamela Singh, Rachael House, Still I Rise, Still I Rise: Feminism Gender Resistance, Tricky, Xenobia Bailey

Fitter at Soho Theatre

9th December 20198th February 2020  Shameera Nair Lin

Mary Higgins and Ell Potter devise and perform in Fitter, a show based on interviews with trans men, cis men and male presenting people, aged from 8 to 102, discussing their views on relationships and desire.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: #MeToo, Fitter, Soho Theatre, Theatre

Louise Orwin’s Oh Yes Oh No at the Cambridge Junction

2nd August 20192nd August 2019  Carla Plieth

Louise Orwin’s latest one-woman show, Oh Yes Oh No, tackles the issue of consent, coercion and female erotic desire in the context of the #MeToo movement.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: #MeToo, Alicia Jane Turner, British Council, Cambridge Junction, Consent, Edinburgh Fringe, Girl and a Gun, Louise Orwin, Oh Yes Oh No, Pretty Ugly, Theatre

Elizabeth Warren, Coretta Scott King and the women leading the English National Ballet’s latest triple bill, She Persisted.

8th April 201921st April 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Enduring misogyny in the Senate Chamber, Elizabeth Warren was then championed by feminist allies around the world with the ubiquitous tag #ShePersisted. Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou looks at the dance works inspired by this phrase and the women who, through their art, persevered.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, DanceTagged: #MeToo, #ShePersisted, #TimesUp, A Doll's House, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, ballet, Broken Wings, calacas, Contemporary dance, Coretta Scott King, Crystal Costa, Diego Rivera, Elizabeth Warren, English National Ballet, Feminism, Francesca Velicu, Frida Kahlo, Henrik Ibsen, Igor Stravinsky, Katja Khaniukova, Kurt Jooss, Laurent Liotardo, Le Sacre du printemps, mexican art, mexico, Mitch McConnell, Philip Glass, Pina Bausch, She Persisted, Stina Quagebeur, Tamara Rojo, Tanztheater Wuppertal, The Rite of Spring, Trek Mukamedov, US politics

Smashing the Academic Patriarchy: One Conference at a Time

22nd December 201818th February 2019  Florence Hazrat

Postgraduate & Environment editor, Dr Florence Hazrat, explores the sexism rife in academia and demands institutional change from its most guilty institutions.

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Posted in My Feminisms, Postgraduate CornerTagged: #MeToo, Academia, EveryDaySexism, Feminism, Further Education, Gender Pay Gap, Higher Education, Sexism, Women in education
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