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Feminism, dinosaurs and that time grandma burnt her bra

Who said burning bras and dinosaurs don't go together?

The Canberra Times · Sep 18, 2023

Birkenstock could be worth $8.7 billion in its planned IPO—and sandal's spotlight in the Barbie movie shows the cultural shift behind the company's growth

Feminism is a force driving it forward, sandal maker says in its securities filing.

Fortune · Sep 18, 2023

‘Most women I know don’t want to have sex like men’: Chanel Contos on consent, porn and ‘out-of-fashion’ feminists

Two years ago Contos prompted a national reckoning on sexual consent. Now the 25-year-old is filling venues as she reintroduces radical feminism to gen Z

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16, 2023

Commentary: Yes, Barbie is a feminist — just don’t ask her creators

Almost 30 years ago, when I researched and wrote a history of the people and ideas that led to the creation of Barbie, I had no doubt she would be as talked about in 2023 as she was in 1959, when she first appeared.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 17, 2023

Nel Law stowed away on her husband’s ship to Antarctica. She was the first Australian woman to see its ‘crystalline strangeness’

I know many people born in 1961 – they are my contemporaries and friends. It doesn’t seem so long ago. Their lives and experiences seem modern to me. They don’t seem old: certainly, none of them have problems working their iPhones. And yet, 60 years is aeons ago when it…

The Conversation · Jul 17, 2023

She’s had a whip-smart Hollywood facelift, but Barbie still isn’t much of a role model

Mattel has reinvented its doll in the language of empowerment, but it’s a hollow, plastic form of feminism

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2023

Feminism explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

The Week · Jun 30, 2023

Dining across the divide: ‘I just left thinking, why on earth are you a Conservative?’

One can’t stand the term feminism, the other thinks women are more powerful as a collective. Can they find any common ground?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2023

Does the Fight Transphobia UniMelb campaign against a feminist philosopher violate academic freedom?

A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been calls to boycott her course on feminism at the University of Melbourne. Posters and stickers around the campus and its environs have declared “Our demands: Transphobes and Nazis off campus” and…

The Conversation · May 30, 2023

False feminism and little mermaids

"She gives up her voice for a man" isn't a valid critique of Disney's Ariel in the year 2023 – and it never was

Salon · May 29, 2023