Australian author, scholar and teacher who wrote the feminist classic Man Made Language and co-founded Pandora Press
June 2023
Jalna Hanmer obituary
Feminist scholar who campaigned against male violence and was determined to improve the police’s approach to domestic abuse
November 2022
Woman groomed and abused in care gets apology after 30 years
Leeds city council letter accepting responsibility believed to be the first of its kind
October 2022
‘I’ve lost my best mate’: the owners forced to give up their pets in the cost of living crisis
Shortcuts
Scooby-Doo’s Velma has finally come out as a lesbian? My dream has come true!
July 2022
The tide is finally turning in Italy in favour of protecting women in the sex trade
Julie Bindel
A bill to legalise sex work, and criminalise the buying of it, follows the successful Nordic model, says journalist and activist Julie Bindel
June 2022
Martina Navratilova: ‘I’ve always tried to do the right thing rather than the popular thing’
The tennis ace on the ban on Russian players, mental health in sport, gun laws… and why this year’s Wimbledon crowd will be very loud
April 2022
Rochdale victim: ‘I was groomed at 14, then the courts came for my children’
Her evidence helped put abusers behind bars, yet ‘Amber’ was vilified by the authorities and says her torment will never end
February 2022
‘It’s time Lord Ahmed was truly shamed’: Survivor speaks out
Campaigner and journalist Julie Bindel was the first to report on grooming scandals in the early 2000s. Here she talks exclusively to a survivor of ex-Labour peer Nazir Ahmed’s child sexual abuse
January 2022
Kirat Assi: ‘Bobby tried to destroy my hopes, my dreams, every part of my life’
She had been ‘catfished’ for years, and now her hit podcast tells the story of tracing the scammer and her quest for justice
December 2021
My winter of love
My winter of love: The lesbian gathering was freezing cold. Would a clinch with an anarchist help?
It was bitter weather in Geneva in 1986 and all any of us could think about was getting warm. Then I met a charismatic woman and felt a strong mutual attraction
October 2021
How do we talk to teens about sex in a world of porn?
Teenage boys’ easy access to violent sexual images is creating a crisis for them – and for women, argues the anti-porn campaigner
August 2021
Greenham Common at 40: We came to fight war, and stayed for the feminism
In 1982, Julie Bindel joined 30,000 women ‘embracing the base’ in protest over nuclear arms. Here she recounts the pivotal role the protest played in their lives
June 2021
The ‘human rights’ sex trade case that will harm women
Julie Bindel
A European court judgment this week could reverse laws that protect the vulnerable and abused
May 2021
Alix Dobkin obituary
American folk singer and lesbian activist who formed her own music production company
February 2021
Outrage over French girl's rape case sparks demand for law to protect minors
Campaigners call for the introduction of an age of consent as 20 firefighters face charges
January 2021
‘They decided the jury wouldn’t believe me’: CPS accused of secret change to rape policy
In a landmark hearing this week, rape victims aim to discover if their complaints failed due to a covert move to drop ‘weak cases’
September 2020
Shere Hite obituary
Feminist researcher into women’s sexuality who broke new ground with her bestselling 1976 study The Hite Report
August 2020
Diana Russell obituary
Feminist writer and activist who campaigned against male violence towards women
April 2020
Roger Matthews obituary
Pioneer of left realism within criminology who questioned state responses to prostitution
