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Nikki Gemmell: “He’d envisaged me as the woman who’d look after the kids...He didn’t see me as a creative equal.”

Nikki Gemmell’s new ‘feminist’ novel has baffled me

Wing features a cast of truly awful, nasty people. What is Gemmell trying to achieve here?

  • Helen Elliott

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Wicked unveils the tyranny of feminine niceness – and that’s why your daughters must see it

The new blockbuster movie of the stage show Wicked calculates the cost of female niceness and has radical things to say about the way women are cast into rigid roles.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Viggo Mortensen wrote, directed, stars in and composed the music for The Dead Don’t Hurt.

‘I make the movie I want to see’: The unusual side of Viggo Mortensen’s new western

The Dead Don’t Hurt is both a traditional western and a reinvention – one that puts the story of an ordinary woman front-and-centre.

  • Karl Quinn
Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear have composed the soundtrack for Moana 2.

From Bridgerton to Moana: The TikTok stars making history at Disney

Songwriters Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear are the first of their kind to create a Disney soundtrack.

  • Louise Rugendyke

In Trump’s America, women don’t feel safe to date. Neither do these Aussies

The 4B movement, a radical feminist movement originating in South Korea, has seen a surge in interest from women in the West.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
From left, Saint Eugenia, Julian of Norwich and Hilda of Whitby are among the women being resurrected by literature. 

These women were extraordinary. So how did we forget about them?

They were saints and scholars, radicals and trailblazers. Finally, their stories are being told.

  • Emily Maguire
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Gisele Pelicot arrives at the Avignon courthouse, in Avignon, southern France, for one of many hearings.

France’s horrifying rape trial has a feminist hero

Many call her “Gisele” as if they know her personally. In her chic image, they see themselves, their mothers, their grandmothers.

  • Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic
Demi Moore in The Substance.

Demi Moore on the male gaze, the beauty myth, and the horrors of latex

The Substance stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley share their thoughts on the body horror film, and why they don’t necessarily agree with its director.

  • Karl Quinn

I’ve never sent a naked selfie. There’s no shame in a little shame

That we use “prude” as a derogatory term should show us the implicit pressure we put on others to embrace nudity and sexuality.

  • Cherie Gilmour
Merle Thornton in the Regatta Hotel in 2015, 50 years after she made her protest there.

Chained to a Brisbane bar, Merle made her mark. Now a statue is promised

Thornton and friend Rosalie Bogner famously chained themselves to the Regatta Hotel bar in a 1965 protest. The state has vowed to memorialise her with a statue.

  • William Davis and Matt Dennien

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