It’s time to stand up, speak out and come together for Feminist Fightback, the annual free activist conference taking place at University of East London for it’s second year. Because fighting back is still necessary and feminism is not dead – and sadly, women’s rights …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 7. Girl Power All in all, this has been a pretty major week. We’ve had the highs, lows and inevitable mud bath of the Glastonbury Festival. …
This week – Kate Winslet falls in love with Jack Black – ludicrous, ludicrous! (The Holiday) and a documentary about the US governments attempts to deport John Lennon, (The US vs. John Lennon). In short, this film is gash. The rule goes – the worse …
In debates about abortion, there is one voice that usually goes unheard – the women who have their pregnancies terminated. Tomorrow evening, Abortion Rights is hosting a screening of excerpts from a new documentary that tells the stories of women who’ve exercised their right to …
There seems something oddly obscene about ITV’s decision to make a programme about the public’s favourite images of death, destruction, mayhem, murder, pain, suffering, and general shittiness (ITV 50: The Shot That Shook The World, Tue 9.45pm ITV1). So, which is your favourite picture of …
Speaking, as we were, of billboards and advertising*, we’d be interested to hear what Londonist readers think of the Dove ads that seem to be up everywhere at the moment. On one building near London Bridge they share space with an ad for the Lib …
It’s twenty five years or so since Frank Zappa complained about the (brain) Dead Girls of London and if you sit on a bus around the time that schools get out then you’d be forgiven for thinking that things hadn’t changed all that much; a …
Get the Londonist Book Of London Pub Crawls for less than the price of a pint. Available now for Kindle.
