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Gender and Feminism
Read investigations from The Cheese Grater about gender and feminism
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UCL Boat Club Plan Meeting to Solve The Patriarchy… No Women Invited
In the ongoing struggle against the old dog of misogyny, Soc Bitch has learned that two valiant young men from UCL Boat Club have decided that they, single-handedly, know what’s…
“Zero Tolerance is just a marketing scheme”: Union hypocrisy fails sexual assault victims
“They make you run around in circles until you give up.” Imagine having a drink with a friend in Phineas. All around are posters and T-shirts advertising the Union’s ‘Zero…
My Island: A Pill Rather Hard to Swallow
We decided something, along with a couple of friends: not taking the pill is the new feminist struggle. It was after one of them got in a fight with her…
Geography Department Says Sorry For Sexist PowerPoint Slide
Some lecture slides are impossible to decipher, some contain poor puns, and then there are those which are simply tone deaf. This Tuesday in a lecture given to the Masters…
UCL Netball & Rugby Host Playboy Memorial for Hugh Hefner
In honour of the death of his majesty and fabulous lord Hugh Hefner (their words, not mine), UCL Netball are putting their best foot forward and helping womankind end the…
Only 22% of UCL’s Highest Earners Are Women
“UCL was the first university in the UK to admit women” – surely this has been forced down every fresher’s throat by now? What they don’t put in the brochure,…
The tragic story of how UCL fails victims of sexual assault
“They push you around the system until you give up. There is no system to help”. These are the words of a UCL medical student who was raped in her…
Teaching on the cheap: UCL’s exploitation of teaching assistants revealed
A UCLU report, released this past week, has laid bare the unfair and exploitative conditions postgraduate teaching assistants (PGTA) experience A startling gender pay gap has also been revealed, along…
Misogynist Runs for UCLU Women’s Officer
[Note: this post contains descriptions of violence against women.] UCLU’s newly created full-time Women’s Officer position has a man running for it. Kirk Sneade is, judging from his actions over…
UCL Confessions’ Dark Side
[Trigger warning: the following post contains description of sexual violence.] ‘UCL confessions’ – a Facebook page featuring anonymous ‘confessions’ from UCL students with nearly 3,000 followers – appears to have…