Novelist Elif Shafak highlights Virginia Woolf’s 1929 call to peace as deeply relevant to women today, in our own age of wars
From a 1978 Japanese tv interview, Patti Smith comes with a perennial message: “*This* is your Golden Age…the time to flower is now”
A century ago, the women of Wales made an audacious appeal for world peace. This is their story—which should inspire us today
It's a beautiful game. But even more beautiful when it provides a path towards self-mastery for homeless people, as a new movie shows
Older women and children celebrate a landmark human-rights ruling on governments’ responsibility for climate worsening
“We are a family of cells making sense of laughter, a watery collection of tireless vitality.” Learn about “queer ecology”, in a new Advaya course
Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations - like bearing current costs of mitigation - more than men
"Trans people literally built the internet, as queer and trans people have been ardent technologists since the beginning"
After half-a-century, Cindy Sherman is still photographing herself, showing how media (and now AI) splinters our identity
What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine
Young men are peeling off from young women ideologically, all over the planet. Or are these just stages of post-patriarchal development?
How Ireland’s Nollaig na mBan evolved from a day off housework to a celebration of women’s achievements
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How Frozen became the catalyst for Disney’s shift from male-centric tales
Attending COP this fortnight, Vanessa Nakate says young people fighting for a habitable planet need to be properly resourced
Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt ‘different’ in the world – and changed the way we think
28 “climate pioneers” in the BBC’s Top 100 women list this year - planet-wide, endlessly enterprising and worth heralding
Alternative Editorial: Feminine Intelligence Can Transform Reality
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“The Mother’s Call” from Jewish and Palestinian activists introduces a feminist, peace-oriented take on the current conflict
Alternative Editorial: Shifting Power
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Alternative Editorial: The Alternative To War Is Not Peace
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