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Aug 13, 20201 min read
Reduction in Government Funding to Help End FGM in the UK
The Coronavirus period has led to a number of women feeling at threat and unsafe in their home environments, with a surge in calls to...
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IntersectNews team
Aug 13, 20202 min read
Femicide in Mexico
In the past few months, activists have been escalating a sustained campaign to call attention to an epidemic within an epidemic:...
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Aug 12, 20202 min read
The Stigma Around Periods
73 per cent of people menstruating feel the need to hide it from others. Why? Around two-quarters of the population menstruates, there...
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IntersectNews team
Aug 11, 20201 min read
Why Acceptance Doesn't Require Understanding
Many people who struggle to accept people the way they are, whether that is down to their religious beliefs, expression of gender, or any...
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IntersectNews team
Aug 9, 20201 min read
Domesticity Is Femininity
Emerging evidence suggests that women have been disproportionately affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic than men. Although we...
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IntersectNews team
Aug 4, 20201 min read
IS IT SEXIST TO ASSUME A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE CHILDREN?
In 1950 women were having an average of 7.4 children in their lifetime. 70 years later, women are having an average of 2.5 children in...
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Datta
Aug 1, 20201 min read
Honor Killings And Their Pathetic Excuses.
TW:Rape, Murder, Abuse,violence A father beats his daughter to death and later drinks his tea beside her corpse. A father, brother,...
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IntersectNews team
Aug 1, 20202 min read
"Underage Women" Do Not Exist
‘Underage Women’. Before I tell you, think about why this phrase is so problematic and consider the negative implications it can have on...
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IntersectNews team
Jul 31, 20202 min read
Let Black Girls be Girls
From childhood, Black girls are labelled as ‘loud’ and ‘disruptive’. Black girls are seen as less innocent; more grown up than their...
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IntersectNews team
Jul 26, 20201 min read
Mokgadi Caster Semenya
Mokgadi Caster Semenya is a South African Olympic athlete who won gold in the women's 800m at the Olympic games 2016. Her upbringing was...
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IntersectNews team
Jul 19, 20201 min read
Modern Child Marriages
In the modern day, many have the notion that the issue, the very concept of child marriage isn’t prevalent in today’s society....
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IntersectNews team
Jul 19, 20202 min read
Feminism: an outdated concept.
The girl in the photo had her face lacerated - by her husband with a razor blade because her dowry was too small. An eight-year-old...
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IntersectNews team
Jul 17, 20201 min read
How to Be a Better Participant in Consent
Getting consent is important, whether that be in a committed sexual relationship, casual flirtation, or just a touch on the arm. You’d be...
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IntersectNews team
Jul 16, 20201 min read
FGM: an insight
Over 200 million women alive today have been subjected to the practice of FGM, yet many people have never heard of this practice. So what...
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Datta
Jul 7, 20201 min read
Gender Bias in Medicine
Since the 1970s, people have been complaining of the problem of gender bias in clinical trials; the typical trial patient is a young,...
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Jul 3, 20202 min read
Mansplaining: An Origin Story
Language often speaks for itself. You hear the words ‘Doctor’ and ‘Professor’, and for most, those terms conjure the image of a man, due...
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IntersectNews team
Jun 27, 20202 min read
Polycystic ovary syndrome- what you need to know.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common disorder for women in their child-bearing years in which regular ovulation is disrupted. It...
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IntersectNews team
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Justin Bieber denies sexual assault
This Saturday the now-deleted twitter account @danielleglvn tweeted about the alleged sexual assault she suffered from Justin Bieber....
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IntersectNews team
Jun 23, 20201 min read
Mind the Gap
What’s the point of having a voice if you don’t speak out? Simple. You will be torn down. By the press, by the media, sometimes even by...
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IntersectNews team
Jun 23, 20202 min read
Catcalling is not a joke
‘Hey, baby! What? Say thank you, it’s a compliment.’ This message comes in different forms, with different words and from different...
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