Really pleased to share that I have been shortlisted for the Outstanding Journalism category in the Criminal Justice Alliance Awards for my work on violence against women, modern slavery victims in prison, and women in prison. www.criminaljusticealliance.org/cja-awards/c...

Moratorium on posh novelists/screenwriters writing about working class people disrupting a posh family out of spite & desire; more novels by working class people writing working class characters who occasionally have to interact with the rich and are like: what the fuck is this bullshit.

South Africa's highest court has ruled that husbands can take the surname of their wives, overturning a law that barred them from doing so! The Constitutional Court ruled that the law was a "colonial import" that amounted to gender-based discrimination. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🔴NEW🔴 A service inquiry has confirmed that men are still paying for sex in Kenya, three years after the MoD imposed a ban on transactional sex. www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-a...

The UN has declared Sudan a "gender emergency". The Unit for Combating Violence Against Women in Sudan, as of March 2025, there have been 1,138 cases of rape recorded since April 2023, including 193 children, most of whom were in conflict-affected areas. news.un.org/en/story/202....

Excited for my book on communities where women around the world live without men. I love the cover - the waves/braids represent unity, upheaval, and new systems being created. Herlands: lessons from societies where women make the rules is out March 6th www.penguin.co.uk/books/462518...

Very interesting gender story from BBC Korea Service, K-drama actress Lee Si Young, announced she is pregnant with her second child from her ex husband- baby was conceived using a frozen fertilised embryos AFTER they broke up, and without her ex’s permission. www.bbc.com/korean/artic...

Indian tennis player Radhika Yadav, 25, has shot dead by her father at their residence. Indian media reports that he shot her 3 times from behind, because she refused to close her tennis academy upon being told to do so. He had allegedly been taunted by his daughter’s financial independence.