Why I’m bored of the empowerment vs. exploitation debate in feminism (and beyond)

“When you think about it, to constantly be asking whether practices generally associated with women and girls in the public imagination are empowering or exploitative reveals how our culture still views women and girls as entirely passive subjects with absolutely no agency…”

Bodily autonomy, censorship and stigma

“Why is it that a woman showing parts of her body (on her own terms) causes people on all sides of the political spectrum to lose their minds with outrage?”

‘The Instagram Effect’: reflections on the impact of the social media platform

“Yes it’s normal for us to want to share the best versions of ourselves. However I wonder if by doing this we end up not only feeling pressure at times to keep up with others/the world around us but also the curated version we’ve created of ourselves…”

How the film ‘Promising Young Woman’ tackles the insidious nature of gender-based violence (contains spoilers and discussions of sexual violence – trigger warning)

“The reason this film works so well is because it’s very good at demonstrating how patriarchal attitudes within our culture manifest into physical violence against women. What makes the violence in the film impactful rather than gratuitous is the way these scenes are shot. We experience the impact of the violence from the perspective of those impacted rather than watching it happen to them, which would remove us from the experience…”

Should universities be offering support to student sex workers? (spoiler alert: the answer is yes)

“the sex work debate proves that as a society we’re still very much chained to a belief system that dictates that people with power and capital (whether that be economic, social, cultural or intellectual) have the right to control what women do with their bodies, and sadly that includes many feminists…”