Frieda Strachan It’s easy to dismiss the elderly. I do it to my mother all the time, and she is actually only middle aged. It’s not fair, I know, but I do it all the time. And it isn’t even so much that we […]
Read More GUEST POST: Where discrimination divides, Feminism (kinda) conquersBy Rebecca Wicks ‘You need to work on your thighs love’. A greying man with stubble stares at me over a jumble of photographic equipment. I am 23, 5’4 and 98lb. After being spotted by the photographer at my brother’s wedding at 22, I fell into amateur modelling, pulled in by sites disguised cleverly as […]
Read More ‘Insults, Sexism & Self Worth – Walking Away From the Modelling Industry’ultravenuszine-deactivated: By Sian Irvine At the beginning of July, Emily and I headed up to London one Wednesday evening to attend an Everyday Sexism talk, with Laura Bates. The Everyday Sexism Project was born from, as Laura herself describes, “a nightmare week, filled with lots of experiences of sexism and… Everyday Sexism with Laura Bates
Read More Everyday Sexism with Laura Batesultravenuszine-deactivated: By Sian Irvine even googling images of this mans stupid face irritated me, so I chose the one of him looking the most ridiculous. Although by no means a football fan and therefore dubious to how much my opinion counts in this instance, I have been finding it very difficult to ignore the… Scudamore, […]
Read More Scudamore, Sexism, and yet another backwards step for equality