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Women Could Become Gladiators in Ancient Rome

Posted on 14 Jul 2024 in Other

Explored Planet website reveals many fascinating facts about Roman society and culture this week, many of them contradicting established beliefs about the ancient world. The Roman Empire existed from around 500 BCE to the collapse of the Western Empire in 476 CE, with the Byzantine part of the Empire surviving into the Middle Ages a thousand years later.

Gender Exploring Expressionist Artists

Posted on 31 May 2024 in Other

Gender identity was explored by the early twentieth century arts school known as expressionism. Now, says LGBTQIA+ arts newsletter Queerguru, a celebration of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc and Paul Klee will be

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 foug

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

Mar

Women's Art Exhibition at the Tate Modern

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

Mar

Right Wing Internet Trolls Attack Vegan Cafes

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 p

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