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Interview with Jacqueline Rose

May 9, 2015by Katrina Zaat Leave a comment

Feminist psychoanalytic philosopher and literary critic Jacqueline Rose had a visiting professorship at Cambridge last year which coincided with the release of her latest book, Women in Dark Times. Rose […]

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Books, Feminism, Interviews, Psychoanalysis, Women

Extreme pornography and the law: it’s complicated

October 15, 2014by Katrina Zaat Leave a comment

The status of violent and degrading pornography is changing under English law. The new legislative approach seems to be having some success, but these revisions to the statues still need […]

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Law, LGBTQI, Porn and society, Sex, Women

In Pornworld: article up at King’s Review

October 1, 2014by Katrina Zaat Leave a comment

The porn tsunami is upon us. A multi-billion-dollar global industry, pornography is everywhere, much of it getting into the hands of children and threatening to permanently rewire their attitudes toward […]

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Law, Porn and society, Sex, Tech, Women, Work

Stemming the tide of Twitter abuse

July 31, 2013by Katrina Zaat 5 Comments

The barrage of death threats and rape threats recently tweeted to journalist Caroline Criado-Perez and Labour MP Stella Creasy  – all because Criado-Perez dared to propose Jane Austen as the […]

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Media, Women
Gillard 6PR radio via Guardian

Bully: Gillard vs the misogynists, round 196

June 16, 2013by Katrina Zaat 4 Comments

There’s a particularly Australian kind of bully – male, laconic,* infinitely entitled. The media’s full of them. Workplaces and schools, too. Berating them doesn’t work, and neither does reason, because it’s […]

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Australia, Media, Women
'Austerity Graffiti' photograph by Brian Smithson (cropped).

Austerity bites hard for the disabled… and for trafficked women

March 14, 2013by Katrina Zaat Leave a comment

The UK government’s redirection of funding for the daily care of the severely disabled to overstretched local governments is a disaster in the making. An excellent comment piece by Zoe Williams […]

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Cuts, Disability, Follow the money, Human trafficking, Women
'Wish You Were Here' by Peter Thoeny (cropped)

Drop-in centre for women affected by violence to close

March 14, 2013by Katrina Zaat 1 Comment

The Scarlet Centre, a London drop-in advice centre for women affected by violence, is due to close on March 31st due to funding cuts. Eaves, the charity that runs the […]

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Human trafficking, Women

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