Honouring Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst on stage and in political action | Letter
As we approach the centenary of equal franchise in 2028, it is important to build on the rights that were won by the suffragettes, writes Helen PankhurstThere was a proud Pankhurst in the audience in Leicester as Sylvia: A Musical Revolution began its…
‘My poetry won me asylum’: Cecilia Vicuña on exile life in ‘sad’ Britain after Pinochet’s coup
Five decades after convincing judges she’d be killed if she returned to Chile, the artist is back with a politically charged retrospective in the country she grew to loveCecilia Vicuña was 24 when she first arrived in London. She had come from Santiago…
Margot Robbie changing her name to her husband’s hurts my beautiful lesbian brain. Here’s why | Rebecca Shaw
I don’t flip a table every time this happens – but I actually do mind when it’s the default decision with no discussionBeing a lesbian in a heretofore heteronormative society means having to go along with lots of things that don’t make sense to your…
I tried to become a gay tradwife – and failed abysmally | Arwa Mahdawi
My sourdough starter died and my lone tomato nearly ruined me financially and emotionally. How did domestic drudgery and hard labour become an aspirational aesthetic?I have just eaten what may be the world’s most expensive tomato. It comes from a little…