Culture - The Persistent

Black and white photo of Maxine Peake and Hayley Standing walking down a lane in Yorkshire. Behind them is a dry-stone wall.

Culture

'Now It's Over, I Don't Feel Any Better At All’

The short film, “Incompatible,” tells the story of a pregnant-working class woman making an all-but-impossible choice.

An illustration of a woman performing standup comedy. She is flanked by two giant men, making the woman look smaller.

Culture

Not Ladylike to Laugh? Oh, Please.

For men to be funny, women don’t have to be unfunny. Both may chuckle.

Deborah Copaken stands outside a store in Cairo in jeans and a utility jacket, with a camera around her neck.

Culture

Lee and Me

I wanted to be the objectifier of men and their wars, quirks, and shortcomings, not the objectified. Why was this so hard?

Culture

The Janice Problem

A rewatch of Friends reveals it isn't the post-feminist masterpiece we thought it was.

Detail from a work by Jessa Fairbrother showing a woman who appears pregnant holding her belly.

Culture

When Words Fail On Infertility, There is Art

Infertility, so long hidden from view, is finally finding a spotlight in various contemporary art forms.

An abstract illustration of a woman gazing into a book.

Culture

Men Still Aren’t Reading Women’s Books. Can the Women’s Prize Help?

The author Kate Mosse co-founded the Women’s Prize for Fiction to shrink the gender gap in publishing. Twenty-nine years on, she says her work is far from finished.

A watercolor painting of Romeo and Juliet, played by Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

Culture

Was Shakespeare a Feminist? Juliet Gives Us a Clue.

A new production of Romeo and Juliet in London peels back layers of misogyny, racism and sexism. It’s a lot.

A black and white abstract image of tennis racquets.

Culture

The Unchecked World of Normalized Misogyny

Nick Kyrgios has been added to the BBC’s Wimbledon commentary roster. The move serves as a reminder that sexism is well entrenched.

The 1917 painting by Laura Knight, shows a woman in an orange dress standing on rocks, looking down at the ocean.

Art

Below the Surface of Women’s Art, Centuries of #MeToo, Misogyny

Viewers who take the time to look closely at Tate Britain's "Now You See Us" will uncover a great deal about the plight of professional women artists over the last 400 years.

An illustration of a woman wearing a jumpsuit, with her hands in her pockets, looking at art in a gallery.

Culture

How Everyday Sexism Is Sewn Into Our Clothes

Pockets should be a given—as essential as elastic in our underwear or buttons on our coats, writes the author Josie Cox.

An animation still of the popular cartoon dog, Bluey, with her parents and sister by a tree.

Parenting

Bluey Has Taken the Easy Way Out On Infertility

Those going through infertility are owed our compassion. Why can’t fiction mirror real life?