Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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‘She was just going for a run’: when will women be safe from violence?
Megan Baker is a second year undergraduate History student at King’s. She is particularly interested in women’s unpaid care responsibilities, maternity leave provision, reproductive rights and violence against women. On 15 January 2022, 23-year-old teacher and musician Ashling Murphy was killed when going for a run on the banks of the Grand Canal located in County Offaly,…
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The Double Standards of Colonial Feminism
Megan Baker is a second year undergraduate History student at King’s. She is particularly interested in women’s unpaid care responsibilities, maternity leave provision, reproductive rights and violence against women. In 2002, President George W. Bush used the liberation of Afghan women from the Taliban to justify the US invasion of Iraq. Bush stated that ‘respect for…
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“My Body, My Decision”: Polish Women’s Fight to Legalize Abortion
Sofia Lopez Simpson is a second year International Relations student. Her hobbies and interests include playing the guitar and spending hours making spotify playlists. “Her heart was beating too!” were the angry chants from Polish protesters in November 2021, after Izabela, a 22 weeks pregnant woman died of sepsis because she was refused treatment by…
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Spiking
Loura Al Alanezi is a Politics (BA) student. She is from Kuwait, and she reports on the topics of poverty, mobility, security and conflict. Her hobbies include reading books and painting. Recently, viral Tik Toks have shown people sharing their experiences of being unknowingly spiked via needles. Those who experience this commonly wake up feeling dizzy,…
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Leila and the Wolves
Loura Al Alanezi is a Politics (BA) student. She is from Kuwait, and she reports on the topics of poverty, mobility, security and conflict. Her hobbies include reading books and painting. Watching Leila and the Wolves by director Heiny Srour thematizes the Palestinian cause and its intersection with women’s rights advocacy; the movie included multiple…
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Why aren’t British MPs entitled to maternity leave?
Megan Baker is a second year undergraduate History student at King’s. She is particularly interested in women’s unpaid care responsibilities, maternity leave provision, reproductive rights and violence against women. In August 2021, pregnant Labour Party MP Stella Creasy tweeted about her struggle to keep working to represent her constituents, facing multiple important meetings in the days…
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Making sense of the abortion debate- thoughts and concerns about our threatened reproductive rights
[The graphic from the Washington Post shows in which US states abortion access is protected and where it is predicted to be restricted if Roe v. Wade falls.] Camilla is a third-year International Relations student, who is interested in politics and international law. She is passionate about equality and social mobility, addicted to coffee, and…
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Female workers forced to get hysterectomy in India
The operation is very profitable for the private clinics and put the family of the patient into debt.
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TikTok, The Simulacrum Available for iPhone – The Impact of Making Gender-based Violence A Virtual Reality
Taimi Vilkko is a second year International Relations student. She is particularly interested in intersectionality and feminist perspectives on security. [Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown Source] On TikTok, we have seen it all being romanticized. Emotional abuse, unhealthy relationship dynamics, sexual violence, to name a few. Most recently, the “vanilla-shaming” phenomenon on the platform has gotten…
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The Meghan and Harry Interview: Why History is Repeating Itself and What We Need to Learn
There is one major difference between the experiences of Meghan and Diana: race.
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Why We All Need to Eat a More Plant-Based Diet
Meat and dairy have a large carbon footprint – they are responsible for 14.5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions alone.
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The Reality of Being a Woman Part 1: The fear of walking alone at night
This article focuses on women experiences of sexual harassment in the United Kingdom and the solutions to prevent harassment.
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