The Consent Collective comes to Edinburgh
Content Warning: Mentions sexual assault. Despite receiving increased publicity in recent years and the emergence of the #MeToo movement, the issues of sexual assault and harassment are far from improving.…
Did London Fashion Week show that #MeToo has a place in fashion?
Not only is clothing an integral part of how we are judged and perceived by society but is often a reflection of society itself. Therefore, in the wake of the…
Cristiano Ronaldo rape allegation re-emerges as the #MeToo movement enters football
Content warning: sexual assault The #MeToo movement, which has forced many professions and fields to reflect upon their treatment of women, has again gathered pace as an allegation of rape…
Hashtag activism is a new and innovative way to protest
In recent years, ‘hashtag activism’, a term first coined by The Guardian in September 2011 when discussing the role of social media in the Occupy Wall Street protests, has played…
Celebrity Status: Commercialisation and the Spirit of the Fringe
Decades before two Wired editors famously coined the term crowdsourcing as the trend-setting buzzword of 2005 and beyond, offline peer production came to define contemporary theatre through the Edinburgh Festival…
The Crown: Even the Queen falls victim to the gender pay gap
The producers of Netflix’s The Crown have recently revealed that Claire Foy, the lead actress portraying the Queen in the series, makes significantly less money per episode than her male…
Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo
Content Warning: discussion of rape. The #MeToo hashtag has risen in popularity of late, with countless women sharing their personal experiences of sexual violence. Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence…
Consent, changing attitudes and the University of Edinburgh
The recent #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns have sparked a worldwide conversation about consent and sexual harassment. Something that started in Hollywood has turned into a reckoning against sexual harassment and…