What is it about the F word (no, not that word) that seriously frightens people off? What’s everyone’s problem with feminism? Over the past couple of months I have begun to identify myself as a feminist. I have always been a believer of gender equality, and because I’m a woman, […]

It has certainly been a golden year for Bond. Sam Mendes’ ‘Skyfall’, released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s 007 series, has not only become the biggest film of 2012 at the UK box office with profits of over £57m, but is also officially the UK’s highest grossing […]

My dream job is to become a screenwriter for cinema, and one aspect of film that I am interested in is strong female roles. We, as an audience, have moved past the idea of depicting women as helpless, waiting for the strong male character to save them. However, there is […]

After having watched one of Those Pesky Dames’ most recent video offerings on Girl Hate, and just how many women put each other down in a bid to separate themselves from “all those other girls”, I’ve been given a not-entirely-pleasant epiphany about my own behaviour. I am a feminist. And […]

Until now, I’m not sure my Facebook news feed has ever exploded over a book. I love to read –L O V E to read. And so, when I first saw everyone chattering about Fifty Shades of Grey, I immediately ordered it off Amazon without doing any research at all – that’s […]

My experience of Ayn Rand until this year had always been that she was an author widely disliked, a radical thinker, someone generally shunned by the literary world. She drew a jibe from South Park here, a sneer from somebody else there. Perhaps with good reason; I had no idea […]