Green Party writes to Hunt over trans healthcare
This afternoon Jonathan Bartley and I took a letter to the Department of Health about the delays faced by trans people wanting to access a Gender Identity Clinic....
Why do we celebrate International Women’s Day?
Alys Mumford is the Co-convenor of the Edinburgh Green Party and a list candidate for the Lothian region. She works at Engender, Scotland’s feminist membership organisation. This blog is...
Radical Independence Conference: Doing Feminism
This weekend I was one of four Bright Green editors who took a day trip through to Glasgow to give a workshop at the Radical Independence Conference. It was...
Where is gender in our economic justice?
I recently went to a conference looking at the future of Europe. In one section, a group of us were talking about the kind of economy we’d like to...
A kinky vegan feminist’s response to the PETA ad
The reaction against allegedly violent imagery in PETA's latest advert risks oversimplifying real-life sexuality.
A Vegan Feminist's Response To The PETA Ad
Trigger warning: this post contains references to abusive relationships and sexual violence. What kind of man injures his girlfriend to the point where she can barely...
Gender, Privilege, and Political Blogging
In recent months it has become popular to gather statistics on the lack of diversity of people working in the media. Feminists started using the #diversityaudit hashtag to record...
Disentangling population reduction and women’s empowerment
By Fiona Ranford There are growing murmurings amongst environmental activists that, despite the obvious unease around the subject, it’s time to tackle the population issue. These concerns have been...
Feminine or Feminist?
In the beginning there was man and there was man’s wife (woman). And man was brave and strong and clever, and man’s wife was weak and emotional, and cared...
Men blogging about feminism
I’m often embarrassed by how little I write about feminism. I am more than happy to give my opinions here on Bright Green about a whole range of subjects....