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In Conversation with Mae Muller

In Conversation with Mae Muller

Writer Reece Ritchie explores Mae Muller’s lyrics and inspiration during an interview touching on all aspects of her career
In this year’s Golden Globe nominations, women are the losers

In this year’s Golden Globe nominations, women are the losers

The snubbing female artists and stories cannot be blamed on a lack of talent but reflects serious problems within awards bodies
Action needed to tackle racial harassment on campus

Action needed to tackle racial harassment on campus

Reports showed the increase of attention on gender-based issues, but the lack of focus on those that are racial-based
Unapologetically hairy – you do you

Unapologetically hairy – you do you

Razor company Billie released their new campaign in summer, along with their #projectbodyhair to remove the stigma and normalise women’s body hair
Waitress Tales: Spilling the hospitali-tea

Waitress Tales: Spilling the hospitali-tea

Elena Bradley spills the ‘hospitali-tea’ on working as a young woman in the restaurant industry. Can you be both pretty and successful in hospitality?
Exclusive: SU Officer concerned over lack of trans inclusion at Reclaim The Night

Exclusive: SU Officer concerned over lack of trans inclusion at Reclaim The Night

In an exclusive statement to The Mancunion, Sara Khan stated the police are responsible for “systematic abuses women of colour and trans women on the daily”
Squat, bench, deadlift: Meet the Powerlifting Society

Squat, bench, deadlift: Meet the Powerlifting Society

Meet the society tackling the gender imbalance in strength sports to build an all-star team to take to University Championships
Opinion: Sexism remains an issue in the music industry

Opinion: Sexism remains an issue in the music industry

Women make up just 17% of the charts, and sexism in the industry goes much deeper even in our local music scenes, writes Lily Martin
Reclaim the Night returns

Reclaim the Night returns

The annual march comes back to Manchester for its biggest year yet
Fight period poverty with ‘Once A Month’

Fight period poverty with ‘Once A Month’

Victoria Evans speaks to Gaby Hartfield about ‘Once a Month’, a Student Action project fighting period poverty in a compassionate and practical way.
Changing Rugby at UoM

Changing Rugby at UoM

Mia Gair sits down with Rugby Development Intern, Lucy Simper, to find out more about her role in changing female rugby participation at the University
Nottingham maintains support for misogyny as a hate crime

Nottingham maintains support for misogyny as a hate crime

We trace the origins of the misogyny is hate campaign, and look at how public support in Nottingham hasn’t translated into concrete results
Review: ‘Uncovered: Monologues by Muslim Women’

Review: ‘Uncovered: Monologues by Muslim Women’

Devi Joshi reviews the Women’s Theatre Society’s ‘Uncovered: Monologues by Muslim Women’
Guys, look out for us girls

Guys, look out for us girls

Rona McCann explores unsettling phenomenons that women and girls face every day and why we should all being doing more to eradicate them
Let’s talk about Everyday Sexism

Let’s talk about Everyday Sexism

Hana Kelly describes her own experiences with everyday sexism to argue why making a misogyny a hate crime in essential for improving women’s day to day experiences.
Gendered Eating: nothing but celery is safe

Gendered Eating: nothing but celery is safe

Contributor Elena Bradley explores gendered eating as a concept. Is it a fad or is there stock in it as a social issue?
Review: ReFrame

Review: ReFrame

In ReFrame, held at the Manchester Art Gallery, Caroline and Maisie Broadhead interrogate representations of women and “women’s work’. They do this by responding to historic paintings of women by famous male artists. They challenge and disrupt traditional female representations.
Shoe throwing and tantrums may be unprofessional, but I’m not sure I care

Shoe throwing and tantrums may be unprofessional, but I’m not sure I care

After Cardi B threw her shoe at a fashion party she faced much criticism for her lack of ‘chill’, Lola Byam Shaw argues this as well as the responses to Serena Williams’ arguments with an umpire reveal the sexism of the pressure on women to be easygoing.
Beautifully hairy

Beautifully hairy

Women’s body hair feels like a secret that we must keep between ourselves
Abbott, Enderwick, and Cunliffe seal Manchester’s survival

Abbott, Enderwick, and Cunliffe seal Manchester’s survival

A nippy afternoon turned into a blustery evening as Manchester’s women secured Northern 2A football for another year