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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
Hundred women to run shoulder-to-shoulder in Great Manchester Run

Hundred women to run shoulder-to-shoulder in Great Manchester Run

The event will celebrate one hundred years since some women got the vote and will raise awareness about social injustices faced by women everyday
International Women’s Day: ten Musical Inspirations

International Women’s Day: ten Musical Inspirations

With International Women’s Day taking place on the 8th March, we ask The Mancunion’s writers and editors about their female musical icons
Preview: getting girls into science event

Preview: getting girls into science event

A celebration of women in STEM for International Women’s Day at the Museum of Science and Industry
Students ‘Reclaim the Night’

Students ‘Reclaim the Night’

Students took to the streets to protest violence against women
Dare to bare?

Dare to bare?

The rise of no-makeup and its celebrity advocation is discussed by contributor Shannon Winterbone
Manchester to unveil Emmeline Pankhurst statue in 2018

Manchester to unveil Emmeline Pankhurst statue in 2018

The statue will be unveiled in 2018, 100 years since some women first got the vote

Pankhurst Centre raise money for therapeutic garden

The centre aims to raise £20,000 towards the project

LGBT Confidence Conference with Claudia Carvell

Following the LGBT Confidence Conference held by the LGBT Foundation, Ellie Tivey talks to women’s officer Claudia Carvell to highlight why coming out can be so difficult for members of the community and how the foundation seeks to make the intrinsically political and social LGBT experience that bit safer, brighter and more powerful

Art Exhibition raises hundreds of pounds for MASH

Manchester Action on Street Health curate exhibition showcasing the creative talent of the women it supports, in their first ever opening to the public