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Charis McGowan

Charis McGowan is a freelance journalist based in Chile, who writes on women's and gender rights issues

June 2024

  • Billie Eilish, centre, with clockwise from bottom left: King Princess, the Japanese House, Peach PRC and Girli.

    ‘I could eat that girl for lunch’: the sexually explicit queer female pop topping the charts

    Billie Eilish is the latest singer to write frankly about sex between women – without it being titillation for men. Artists from King Princess to Girli explain why it’s taken so long

April 2024

  • Cue jingle … Star Wars Cerveza Cristal beer edit, part of a 2003 campaign in Chile called Stop the Zapping

    May the fizz be with you: how a $10 Chilean beer ad took on Star Wars

  • E Fabres outside the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile

    Experience
    Experience: I stole a Rodin sculpture from a museum

February 2024

  • The moai known as Hoa Hakananai'a in the British Museum

    British Museum’s Instagram flooded with calls to return Easter Island statue

    Chilean social media users target institution, forcing it at one point to close comments on posts
  • re Vera C Rubin Observatory: RubinStarTrails

    State-of-the-art telescope in Chile to offer best view yet of universe

    The futuristic $1.9bn Vera C Rubin Observatory took nine years to build and will survey the night sky in unprecedented detail
  • Eoin Devlin, the captain of a football team who lost 51-0, standing in football kit in a goal, with footballs behind him int he net

    Experience
    Experience: My football team lost 51-0

    I hadn’t put goalie gloves on in a long time. I also forgot my contacts

January 2024

  • Unmissable … The Traitors UK, Series 2.

    From The Traitors to Big Brother: why is all our favourite reality TV Dutch?

    As we gear up for more nailbiting episodes, it’s worth asking why the most addictive TV formats come from the Netherlands

December 2023

  • A group of largely female protesters, many in balaclavas wave placards and flags as a woman in the front

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They violated our rights’: Chile’s draft constitution fails women, say activists

    Last year, a liberal constitution to replace the Pinochet-era one was rejected. Now a referendum will be held on a new draft that curbs abortion rights and enshrines Catholic morality. Here, five women reflect on 2019’s protests and the struggle for equality

November 2023

  • There’s a wealth of talent … from left, producer and songwriter Édgar Barrera, performer Karol G, and Shakira, nominated for the most 2023 Latin Grammy awards.

    ‘Spanish-dominated’ Latin Grammys’ move to Seville provokes controversy

    The prestigious awards are being held in Europe for the first time. But does this ‘landmark moment for Spain’ neglect the musicians at the forefront of Latin music innovation?

October 2023

  • Anti-Pinochet protestors outside the London Clinic in 1998.

    ‘We followed him everywhere’: Chilean exiles 25 years on from Pinochet’s UK arrest

  • Vinii Revlon during the Stars of Paris are Shining Ball, a voguing event at la Gaite Lyrique in Paris in June.

    ‘The catwalk is our riot’: How Paris’s booming ballroom scene found its home in the city of lights

August 2023

  • Chilean helicopter H-255 in an airsoft park in the UK.

    How a Pinochet ‘death flight’ helicopter became UK gamepark prop

    Families of the disappeared express revulsion over aircraft where relatives lived their last moments being used for recreation and call for it to be returned to Chile

July 2023

  • Sonny Roberts pictured in 1982 outside his shop Orbitone.

    ‘I felt his vibration!’ Sonny Roberts, the UK’s first Black music studio owner

    The Jamaican immigrant producer and entrepreneur, who is being honoured with a blue plaque this week, laid the foundations for a vibrant British reggae scene

April 2023

  • Activists hold portraits of people disappeared during the Pinochet dictatorship as they protest in front of La Moneda presidential palace in 2019.

    Chile takes on ‘moral duty’ of finding the disappeared of Pinochet regime

    As the 50th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s bloody coup nears, Chile’s government launches a new plan to find and identify those who went missing

March 2022

  • Thousands of high school and university students marched through Santiago to demand aid in the face of the rising cost of living, 25 March 2022.

    Chile: students force closure of Santiago schools over sexual harassment and violence

    Unesco report finds that Covid school closures have made girls more vulnerable to gender-based violence

December 2021

  • A couple reacts with their daughter outside the congress as the senate votes to approve a same-sex marriage bill in Valparaíso, Chile, on 7 December.

    ‘A bit of hope’: Chile legalizes same-sex marriage

  • Murdered Chilean activist Javiera Rojas

    Chilean environmental activist who opposed dam projects found dead

August 2021

  • Demonstrators clash with riot police during the protests in November 2019.

    Rights and freedom
    Efforts to pardon Chileans imprisoned during mass protests gathers pace

    Pardons bill gains significant support among Chileans who credit for 2019 protest for galvanising important reforms

May 2021

  • A woman holds a Chilean flag in Valparaiso last year. In a referendum in October, Chileans voted by a 79% landslide majority in favor of a popularly elected citizen assembly with gender parity.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘A game-changing moment’: Chile constitution could set new gender equality standard

    Chileans to elect 155-strong assembly made up of equivalent men and women to set out new framework and enshrine equal rights

March 2021

  • Venezuelan migrants walk along the highway on their way to Iquique, after crossing from Bolivia, in Colchane, Chile.

    Humanitarian crisis looms on Chile-Bolivia border as migrants cross on foot

    Chile closed land borders last year due to Covid but authorities report surge in crossings, mostly Venezuelan migrants
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