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Amazon Women More than Just a Myth

Posted on 19 Apr 2024 in Other

The Guardian reports that gender radical, androgynous and possibly lesbian loving women, who lived on the edges of the Ancient Greek world, were more than just a myth. Recent archaeological evidence suggests that there really was an all female society of women who lived and fought as men. Burials unearthed in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and parts of the Caucuses, reveal many women buried with bows and arrows, and showing signs of prolonged time on horseback, firing bows and arrows. The Greek records always spoke of Amazonian women, who shattered gender norms of the ancient w

BBC Wales Celebrates History of Women's Day

Posted on 1 Apr 2024 in Other

On Sunday 3rd March, the kick off of International Women's Week, BBC Radio Wales, which is the English language public service network for Wales, broadcast a history of the celebration of women's contributions and achievements. The origins of the event lie in th

Dancing Hero Robin Windsor Passes On

Posted on 20 Mar 2024 in Other

The Daily Mirror newspaper reports that gay hero and noted dancer Robin Windsor, who rose to fame on the BBC-1 programme Strictly Come Dancing, has passed on at the age of forty four. As yet, no cause of death was given Mr Win

Women's Art Exhibition at the Tate Modern

Posted on 19 Mar 2024 in Other

Trotskyist group Workers Power reports on an exhibition of women's political art in the period between 1970 and 1990 at the Tate Modern which runs until 9th April. Alison Balfour, writing in the groups newspaper, says "The struggles of women expressed

Right Wing Internet Trolls Attack Vegan Cafes

Posted on 16 Mar 2024 in Other

The Guardian newspaper reveals that there is a new perceived threat for right wing internet trolls to get their proverbial knickers in a twist over. It's Vegan Restaurants. The paper reports that Jim Anderson and his wife Samantha are the proprietors of The Oak Tree, a vegan ca

Mar

Activist Gentili Honoured by Organisations

Tributes have been paid to Cecilia Gentili, an activist within the LGBTQIA+ communities, a creative, a health activist and advocate for sex workers, and an reformer of laws that unfairly discrimina

Feb

Radical Faeries Preparing Spring Gathering

Registration is now open for the Radical Faerie gathering at Featherstone Castle in Northumberland towards the end of this March, to mark the Spring Equinox and th

Feb

Tech Giants Used by Unsavoury Regimes - HRW

Human Rights Watch, an international NGO based in Washington DC, has issued a campaign alert on the annual date designated as "Digital Privacy Day". They say "raise your voice to

Feb

"Never Forget Where Hatred Leads" - Khan

The Jewish Chronicle newspaper reports that Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has referred to the importance of Holocaust Memorial Day, at a service ahead of the o

Feb

Intersectional 'Queer' and Non Conforming IDs

It is often interesting to think about the intersectionality of LGBTQIA+ identities and other groups in society. The Guardian reports that a new art book of photographs by