‘Being a Slut Really Means You Are Untouchable’: On Shame, Power and the Reclamation of Words
‘Even In Death, We Aren’t Safe From Them’: Who Protects Women When Our Emergency Services Are Systemically Corrupt?
‘Even in death, we aren’t safe from them.’ This is a comment left on an account on TikTok titled Feminism4everyone. It didn’t take long for the ‘them’ to register as men, and although I am aware of the violence against women men can perpetuate, nothing could’ve prepared me for the story the comment was referring to. Be warned, the next paragraph is very distressing…
‘Not One More’: Reflecting on Poland’s 2020 Abortion Ban Three Years On
Poland always struggled for its independence. The country fell under the regime of the Soviet Union at the end of WW2. Surprisingly, during this era, the government offered safe and legal access to abortion. The first talks of taking this fundamental right away surfaced in the first years of democratic Poland…