Abby Backhouse joins Reclaim the Night on their 44th annual march against gender-based violence.
Should women need to see a doctor or pharmacist before being given the morning after pill?
Medication regulations currently require women and girls to schedule pharmacy appointments to receive the morning-after pill. A report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends this should be changed so the contraceptives can […]
Are Pro-Life Supporters Trying To Control Women’s Bodies?
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, A Handmaid’s Tale, tells the spectacularly heart-breaking story of a world in which women are raped by powerful husbands whose wives are unable to conceive and forced to bear their children. […]
Yarls Wood: “My Life is in Limbo”
On the 21st February 2018 over 100 women participated in a hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre over “inhumane” conditions and indefinite detention. Yarl’s Wood is a detention centre for asylum seekers and immigrants […]
In the Spotlight: LUU’s Women’s Liberation Co-ordinators
This Week, The Gryphon interviews Emma Healey, Women’s Liberation Co-ordinator and NUS Women’s Conference Candidate at LUU, to find out more about her feminist beliefs and how she works with LUU societies to help bring […]
Comment | An End to FGM
The issue of female sexuality has long been a taboo subject, and still is to a certain extent, even in our seemingly liberal society. A recent study by Barbara Bartlik of Cornell University has even […]