Review: Celia Paul ‘Self-Portrait’
In a fusion of the pictorial and the prosaic, Celia Paul’s memoir Self-Portrait is a potently honest and personal read. Paul, a prolific artist, proclaims herself at the start as…
Will we ever see an end to fatal violence against women?
CW: rape, violence, death On the evening of the 25th of September an Edinburgh vigil was held for Sabina Nessa on The Meadows. It is one of many vigils that…
This week in public… I was leered at in the street
I was walking to dinner with my parents and we stopped to cross the road at Toll Cross where a man was stood waiting in front of us. He turned…
Bridging the gender-data gap
People who identify as women make up more than half of the people on this planet. They do everything that cis men do. They commute to work, buy houses, go…
Staff inequalities at the University of Edinburgh must be tackled
The University of Edinburgh is a leading university in many ways. We top the tables as the largest university in Scotland, we have the largest budget surplus, the highest paid…
We need to reevaluate the forms of contraception on offer
The recent trial of a men’s contraceptive pill has resulted in a 96 per cent success rate, heralding promises of a new form of contraception. Unlike the majority of birth…
It is high time I stopped apologising for your willy-waving
After a meeting in which she was consistently ignored by (male) client representatives, a close friend and colleague of mine was told by a senior, female colleague: “Don’t worry, they’re…
Effort to establish gender studies department makes gains
The effort to establish a gender studies department within the University of Edinburgh reached a key milestone last week with the opening of a new full-time position for a Gender…
