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We skipped our usual probing insight into Grazism last week because it was “the big fashion issue” and there is very little to say about pages and pages of bags and shoes and dresses except a cursory “pretty” or “rank” (let us let you into a little secret- that is about as deep as fashion […]
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Yesterday was a good day, what with the Vagenda being on Radio Four, hitting a quarter of a million hits, and sampling pretty much the BEST CHEESECAKE THAT HAS EVER PASSED MY LIPS (white chocolate and ginger, FYI). The maraschino cherry which topped off Tuesday, however, was my boyfriend picking up the Socialist Worker and […]
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We all know that the leap year proposal tradition is a cursory patriarchal concession which allows women them to push their year-long subjugation to the back of their tiny little minds and, for one day, feel in control of their own destinies. Well, like, duh. Which is why Vagenda contributor Harriet Wragg thought it would […]
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Image credit to Stuart Miles During a particularly fortuitous perusal of the internet today, I came up with this little baby which is popping up all over the place in the business press. Under the particularly delightful headline ‘Increase in women, decrease in performance says 12% of directors’, it reports upon a study into business […]
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Image credit to Stuart Miles So. Everyone who’s not a feminist reckons it’s because of all that weird shit that feminists think. In this delightful little piece, we’ve put together a few misconceptions about the feminist thought process and clarified our position, so you can take the bags off your heads and declare yourself feministas […]
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Image: Alison Bechdel Nobody likes a test on a Monday, but we reckon you need to do this one. Think of your favourite movie: 1. Does it have at least two women in it? 2. Do they talk to each other? 3. If so, do they talk about something besides a man? Scary, isn’t it? […]
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Image credit to Ambro Happy Sunday morning, Vagendistas, and I’m here with one of those stock photos we all know and love – women laughing with salad – to illustrate how much fun just not eating can be in this day and age, according to Look magazine. The couple above are clearly having a veritable […]
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So. You might have seen us in the Standard on Wednesday, on a nice little double page spread (snigger) the word VAGENDA in 36point type splattered across it like the seminal fluid on a 13 year old boy’s copy of Penthouse. It was awesome. As our friend Ka said, it was like seeing Rock and […]
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I’m trying to write this while my boyfriend lies next to me going “SEX!” “SEX!” I think he feels like he’s become a bit of a widower to twitter, poor lamb. It’s pretty difficult to type when someone is whingeing “I want to bone you,” in your ear, but hey, ho, I’ll endeavour […]
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Image belongs to Disney Pixar Rebecca Brooks hair envy and making archery cool. Two things you never thought you’d get from Pixar, proud proclaimer of all things animated. But their latest film, Brave, due for release roughly around the same time as the Olympics archery finals, is set to bring a kick-ass female heroine to a new […]
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