Laura Bates on the new age of sexism
Feminist writer, campaigner, and one of Standard Issue’s firm favourites, Laura Bates’s latest non-fiction is called The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny. Anyone fretti...
3 Maj 202529min
Flicking #61: Challengers
It’s game, set and love matches in our Yosra’s pick of 2024 films, as she, Mick and Hannah watch Luca Guadagnino’s sweaty tale of rivalry on and off the courts. Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mik...
2 Maj 202528min
The Bush Telegraph: You'd think, right?
There’s a whole load of ‘but why the feck isn’t that already happening?’ in Hannah and Mick’s look at the news this week, as they take in nudification apps (no thanks), fresh rules for the police (yes...
1 Maj 202524min
Rated or Dated: Look Who’s Talking (1990)
Director Amy Heckerling is known for films centred on the female experience, but how feminist is a film about a woman narrated by an actual man-baby? Or a single mum hell-bent on finding a dad for her...
30 Apr 202526min
Lucky boys with Chloe Hadjimatheou
If an adult male grooms a teenage girl into a sexual relationship, we're increasingly likely to call it abuse. But reverse the sex of the perpetrator and victim and attitudes are very different. In he...
29 Apr 202528min
Have Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman tried this?
Anyone who’s ever been anywhere near social media can attest to the somewhat loose definition of “self-care” adopted by society. Broadcasters Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman, keen to challenge the d...
28 Apr 202527min
Sophie Gilbert on how pop culture turned women against themselves
In Girl On Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Sophie Gilbert underlines how popular culture isn’t an innocuous force. She chats to our...
25 Apr 202525min
Rated or Dated: Leon (1995)
Once cool, now ick. That could describe so many things from 1995, but in this instance it's Luc Besson's thriller about a prepubescent girl and her assassin neighbour. But could it all have been so di...
23 Apr 202522min
