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Mean Girls, 2024 (Film Still)

Mean Girls and the problem with lazy diversification

Diversity was a top priority for the 2024 movie-musical adaptation of Mean Girls, but how effective is representation politics when marginalised characters are consistently mistreated or underdeveloped on the big screen?

Jan 16, 2024

Halima Jibril

Art & Photography

Shou-An Chiang, “Yurika and Shao Shuai”, Queerasian

These photos reclaim young queer Asians from tired stereotypes

Shou-An Chiang’s ongoing project, Queerasian, defies the media’s narrow depiction of queer Asian youth culture

Art & Photography

Sep 20, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

billie razor pubic hair

Your body, your choice – are pubes disgusting or desirable?

No more beating around the bush: Sister magazine’s founding editor Beccy Hill and journalist and model Simran Randhawa debate the presence and politics of pubic hair

Apr 06, 2020

Beccy Hill

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‘I was 9 when I first bleached my skin’: Bree Runway on overcoming hate

After suffering chemical burns, the musician is here to make a difference and show dark-skinned women in all their glory, thanks to her mum, model Leomie Anderson, and encouraging words from Michelle Obama

Mar 31, 2020

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UK’s first black fitness festival, NoireFitFest, wants exercise inclusivity

Co-creators Lorraine Russell and Donna Noble are addressing the lack of representation within fitness and inspiring people to get active with every exercise, treatment, and product

Mar 26, 2020

Felicia Pennant

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Plus-size brand navabi just launched a gallery of plus-sized stock imagery

Author and social media editor Bethany Rutter is pushing for better visual representation of all body shapes and sizes

Jan 31, 2020

Marie Southard Ospina

Charlie's Angels

Women are getting more film roles, but only if they’re white

The number of films featuring a woman increased by 40 per cent, but roles for women of colour decreased

Jan 09, 2020

Günseli Yalcinkaya

La’Shaunae wins the 2019 Dazed100

Model La’Shaunae wins the 2019 Dazed100

Representing for fat black women everywhere, the model takes this year’s crown after being cast via our #joinDazed100 campaign

Jul 10, 2019

Brit Dawson

This Changes Everything trailer

Hollywood stars talk gender inclusion in This Changes Everything trailer

Meryl Streep, Rashida Jones and more discuss the under- and misrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry

Jun 18, 2019

Brit Dawson

HALIMA ADEN photo by Fadil Berisha clothing by She

How Halima Aden made history for hijabi models

We chat to the model and UNICEF ambassador about the importance of representation

Jun 10, 2019

Alex Peters

Art & Photography

Diane Arbus: In The Beginning, Hayward Gallery, London

Looking at Diane Arbus’s photography through the lens of the current day

The late photographer’s darkroom alchemy has long conjured controversial illustrations of alienation, sickness, and suffering

Art & Photography

May 01, 2019

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Dove x Girlgaze create world’s biggest archive of photos made by women

Part of Project #ShowUs, 5000 images have been released to Getty in a bid to change the way women are represented in advertising and media

Mar 28, 2019

Kamara Hakeem-Oyawoye

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