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Hazel Scott: Pianist, Protestor, Pioneer

“I’ve always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know..."

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Olivia Guinness: The Woman behind the Irish Dynasty

Katie Phillips

Mar 296 min read

Long 18th century

Olivia Guinness: The Woman behind the Irish Dynasty

Guinness will always be one of Ireland’s most famous exports, besides Paul Mescal and Riverdance.

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Roses are red, violets are blue, singular they predates singular you*: the history of non-binary and the use of the pronouns they/them

Gemma Craven

Mar 714 min read

Queer

Roses are red, violets are blue, singular they predates singular you*: the history of non-binary and the use of the pronouns they/them

DISCLAIMER: The author of this article, Gemma, uses she/her pronouns and the co-author and enby Director of The HERstory Project, Abby,...

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Feb 410 min read

Section 28: A Legacy of Censorship

A continually damaging piece of anti-LGBT+ UK legislature was the 1988 passage of Section, or Clause 28.

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“Why you always rap about bein’ gay?” Queerness at the ends of homo-hop.

Michal Emil Delost

Jan 2811 min read

“Why you always rap about bein’ gay?” Queerness at the ends of homo-hop.

It is a common belief that hip-hop as a whole has always been firmly anti-queer. In truth, hip-hop is not a monolithic entity

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The Death of a Teenage Girl: The Oakridge Cranium and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Towards Women

Holly Russell

Nov 26, 20237 min read

The Death of a Teenage Girl: The Oakridge Cranium and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Towards Women

How Anglo-Saxon treatment of women led to the brutal death of a teenage girl.

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“Red hair is my lifelong sorrow”: Reflections on the literary and historical trope of redheads

Anouk Saint

Nov 21, 202315 min read

“Red hair is my lifelong sorrow”: Reflections on the literary and historical trope of redheads

There is pattern across centuries of troubled or troubling women sharing a common feature of red hair.

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My Wife the Auxiliary: An Exploration of Women’s World War One & Two Memorials in Britain.

Amy Whatmough

Nov 12, 202312 min read

My Wife the Auxiliary: An Exploration of Women’s World War One & Two Memorials in Britain.

There are lots of important women in global services, however, men still greatly prevail.

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Vita and Virginia: Mental Health, Scandal and Bisexuality

Sep 3, 202313 min read

Queer

Vita and Virginia: Mental Health, Scandal and Bisexuality

It wasn’t until I rewatched the film for the purposes of this article that I noticed just how well Debicki portrays female queerness.

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Janey Jones

Jul 9, 20236 min read

Sophia Jex Blake & The Edinburgh Seven

In 1869, Sophia Jex Blake arrived in historic Edinburgh on a heartfelt mission. She wanted to study medicine at Edinburgh University and ach

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Mar 28, 20234 min read

Queer

Marsha, instigator? activist

‘My life has been built around sex and liberation’

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"Unbossed and Unbought": Shirley Chisholm

Mar 22, 20236 min read

"Unbossed and Unbought": Shirley Chisholm

‘Unbought and Unbossed’ are the two words Chisholm described herself within the publication of her autobiography, the title her life’s motto

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Mar 4, 20236 min read

Early Modern

Mary Frith, Transgressor

Mary Frith, better known as “Moll Cutpurse” is one of those historical figures that often feels too elusive to properly pin down.

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Mar 3, 20235 min read

Mavis Best, an unappreciated reformer

Someone you may not have any awareness of in this list of women and equality throughout history is British councillor Mavis Best.

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The "Cripple Suffragette": Rosa May Billinghurst

Mar 2, 20234 min read

The "Cripple Suffragette": Rosa May Billinghurst

Militant suffragette might not be a term you’d immediately associate with a disabled teacher

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Mar 1, 20238 min read

Susan and Mrs Stanton

Always “Susan” and “Mrs Stanton” in their letters, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are fundamental in conversations of equality

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