Feminism in a Toilet Cubicle: Can we still talk about periods?

I’ve always loved reading scribbled messages on toilet doors or desks, but I’ve never expected to provoke one of these graffiti debates myself. But that’s what seems to have happened. Looking at the inside of the cubicle door the other day I saw that someone had written over a poster - a poster I had…

How We Can Make Our Localised Music Spaces Safer

CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of inappropriate behaviour with minors The localised music scene is a huge network and a loving community, it has included anyone without question and with open arms. Many people have built a family through the local music scene, people have found partners and friends they might not ever have met outside of…

International Women’s Day: Women in Conversation – Dyla

Dyla is a Trans woman and a UoM student Amber: Can you tell us a bit about yourself?  Dyla: So I’m 22 - I’m at the University of Manchester. I guess I’m a pretty sociable person and pretty open-minded.  Can you tell us about your relationship with your gender?  So my relationship with my gender…

Feminism in Conversation: Mary Agbesanwa

Mary Agbesanwa is a strategy and operations Management Consultant currently leading her firm’s Fintech Accelerator Programme. She also co-leads her firm’s Multicultural Business Network, a large employee resource group with over 1,000 members. Outside of work, she blogs on her Medium blog 'A Millennial's Diary' about careers and personal development for millennials, and co-runs a…

The Feminist Man

An essay by Amber Barrow, General Member of the UoM Feminist Collective ( ed. J Taylor) You cannot categorise men, just as you cannot categorise women. We are not defined by gender, we cannot be reduced to a single characteristic and we remain diverse beings. And yet...there does exist one particular, rare breed of male: The…