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Christie shines with a new standup show that marries clownish self-satire with a passionate feminist call to arms, writes Brian Logan, Hadley Freeman: There is a growing clamour for feminism to be rebranded. 0000008290 00000 n
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This year, 6,000 stories that have been sent to the project about harassment or assault on public transport – the majority never reported to authorities – were used to train 2,000 police officers in London, and create a public awareness campaign. If you have an individual subscription to this content, or if you have purchased this content through Pay Per Article within the past 24 hours, you can gain access by logging in with your username and password here: This site uses cookies. This means she doesn't feel she has to "pick a side", she says, between the movements for women's rights and for racial equality, and she is now a member of the thriving Black Feminists group in London – there is also one in Manchester. Southall Black Sisters protested outside the offices of the UK Border Agency against racist immigration laws and propaganda – including the notorious "Go Home" vans. endstream
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The rush was such that in a single weekend in October, you could have attended a feminist freshers' fair in London, the North East Feminist Gathering in Newcastle, a Reclaim the Night march in Edinburgh, or a discussion between different generations of feminist activists at the British Library (this sold out in 48 hours, was moved to a room four times bigger, and sold out again). They convinced those who had never thought about misogyny before that it was clearly still alive, and convinced those who were well aware of it to keep going. They grew up being told the world was post-feminist, that sexism and misogyny were over, and feminists should pack up their placards. 0000080707 00000 n
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