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 must be losing my plot with all of this, but I was thinking that the biggest interview, the biggest celebrity and influencer at the moment is COVID19. The one hot search in google and the one everyone is talking about. 


I want to share a bit of this nonsense with you all and give you the ultimate feminist interview with the virus itself! Because we can have a feminist vision for almost everything!

We have created a layback Film club that serves as an excuse to watch some feminist films and stop the endless routine of scrolling in Netflix overwhelmed by the excessive amount of choice! It is the little things, like a thread in a post where we can share a moment and be listened, that will make a bit of a difference in the hard days.
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If I am completely honest, I wasn’t sure what to write about today. Do I continue to write about feminism, as if nothing has happened? As if the world is the same today as it was 2 weeks ago, or even 5 days ago? And after a lot of thought, I decided to write about all of this at once, today, to address it, and then keep focused on our mission. I have checked and patriarchy survival rate in a pandemic is a 100% so I am afraid our efforts are still needed.

How do you maintain a positive body image when you're plus size? And if you are able to maintain a positive body image, how will that affect you and your life?

Nancy Basile, founder of Plus Size Nerd Project, shares her tips!

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Nancy is unapologetically Nerd and Plus Size, and she has created a community around those 2 stigmatised things for women. And she shouts about them, celebrate them and use them as a superpower, one that also elevates everyone else!
 
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We still need to celebrate International Women's Day with passion. We need to make all the angry demands, but also all the celebratory acts around it. We need to shine light on the problems, and sometimes it's not only about demanding but about highlighting, sometimes it is about giving a voice and the stage to women and letting them have a fair share of applause of their own. It is the combination of all the above, the demands, the positive discrimination, the safe spaces, the marches, the strikes... that will amplify the effect of the message.

Virginia is co-founder of The Feminist Shop - read her interview here and find out what makes her tick (aka what pisses her off). Learn a bit more about why she started the brand and why she wants to keep starting so many more conversations around feminism!
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We couldn't keep going with the interviews without properly introducing ourselves and give the same insight that we ask others to give!
 
So here you can find Chris' interview and a bit more of his feminism, journey and vision for The Feminist Shop. 
We are days away from International Women's Day, marches and demonstrations are now in the calendar and it is just a matter to start doing your placards and preparing your singing for the day! Here you can find our 30 favourite quotes for the day
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Today interview is with Sophia Khalid, the founder of "Girls Group Holiday" a project that wowed me from the minute I first heard her speak about it. She uses travelling as a way to grow, to build a community and to share with like-minded people. Focused on women of ethnic minorities every travel gets together a new group and new amazing experiences and bonds for each of them
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From Feminist hates men to Feminism is a VIP club we analyse the most common myths, trues and misunderstandings around feminism because if we spent all the time invested in explaining and justifying why feminism is ok in actually proactively supporting feminist measures we will be way ahead of the game.
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Today we are interviewing Hazel, blogger and Instagrammer, podcast host, mum of twins and passionate intersectional feminist. Internet is this amazing place where you are giving the possibility to find gems like her! 
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Feminism is about choices. It is about informed choices. It is about socially respected and supported decisions made by women.

Breastfeeding is a personal decision. It's something that a woman decides to do, or not to do, with her body. But how to nourish your baby is a decision that is not informed enough, not respected enough and not supported enough. 

Jennie Wallace is the Co-founder of Breastival, the Movement that wants to change the way breastfeeding is perceived in Northern Ireland and support mums in their experience. Insight of her vision and her feminist thoughts.
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We need to talk about periods the same we talk about any other reality of our natural bodies, from farting to headaches, from brushing our teeth to having to pee badly. Although that also highlights the problem that firstly women have to be portrayed as humans with all the needs and the bodily functions and yet can't if they want to be perceived as sexy - which we all know is the *only* goal of our existence.

In our first interview on the blog we get to know more about Katrina McDonnell, founder of Homeless Period Belfast. 

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We just watched the second season of Sex Education on Netflix and there are so many things that made us love and recommend the show! We're sharing our top 5 here in a spoiler free list and can't wait for season 3 to arrive!

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Kids get so many mixed messages – we want them to be strong, independent and clever…but even in this day and age we are STILL guilty of gender stereotyping, of putting them in boxes by the way we talk to them, dress them…and we need to do MORE. Being a parent is hard, but if we want kids to be kind, strong and capable we need to do better.

Christmas is officially here, and it is a extrange period in which people tend to suddenly travel back in time and with the excuse of "tradition" allow things to happen that they would never allow otherwise.

It is a bit of a trap, but here are our 10  tips to add feminism to the festivities!

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Here you'll find out recommendations of our favourite feminist kids books - because it is never too early to bring feminism to their lives, in the shape of female role models, or tools for critical thinking. Books are such a pleasurable thing to buy and to gift and studies show an unequal representation of gender in children's books (both in terms presence and roles), so choosing the right one is so important.
We want to praise and shout from the rooftops about the amazing pacific protest started and made viral by the feminist collective 'La Tesis' in Chile. It seems to be the perfect hymn for the #metoo era, it replicates that same awareness, the same strong peaceful activism, the same recognition amongst women all over the world of the need to stand up together. So sing it, dance it, and smile when doing so because you are not alone and you are not the only one singing it, right now! 
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The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign from 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) until 10 December (Human Rights Day). This year it is against rape and we stand by it.
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Confessions of an angry feminist about how old me used to hate the word, the concept and everything about it. Here is why and why I was wrong.
Am I a feminist? If so, what type? We know that even if we are all in the same boat here we are not all the same kind of feminists. Take our quick test to see what type of feminist you are, and let us know if the results are accurate...