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Mrs America: Women for Women?
The BBC recently released (or not so recently, I’m really bad at getting through shows) Mrs America, a programme that follows the journey of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment in the US) and the key figures involved in the fight for women’s rights. While the show does contain fictional characters and events, they all help […]
The Breaking Down of Gender Norms in Disney Films
Over the past ten years Disney has begun to integrate more progressive views into their films and thus are creating more forward-looking mindsets in younger generations. Disney has especially done this by breaking down outdated gender roles and storylines in a variety of different ways. This most notably started with Princess and the Frog in […]
Let’s Talk About Feminism
When a woman says they are a feminist, they have to preface it with “I don’t think women are better than men and I don’t hate men”. In this day and age, feminism is unjustly connoted as a radical movement. The initial wave of feminism in the early ninetieth century emerged to fight the oppression […]
Angus, Thongs and Intersectional Feminism
During lockdown, I’ve taken to revisiting some of my all-time favourite childhood films, and while it has been immensely enjoyable and nostalgic, it has also been very eye opening. In some films certain scenes were problematic to say the least. While a younger version of myself would have glossed over these scenes, I found my […]