Ideas and Action

Why women in Bristol are going on ‘strike’

For International Women’s Day this Sunday 8 March, feminist collectives in Bristol are putting on a “Women’s Strike”. The Cable has been following the event's organisers to learn about the personal stories and politics behind the action.

Inside a Bristol warehouse is a vast history of women’s fight for rights

Watch: Do mandem need feminism?

Reports

Palestine to Bristol: Football, freedom and feminism

“We live surrounded by a wall, but through football we can break it down”: the Palestinian women using sport to resist oppression.

Reports

Feminist library protestors “violently” evicted

Reports

“We invite you to join us”: Activists occupy Cheltenham Road library

Bristol Cable women’s roundtable: “This is not a democracy”

Four young women on their thoughts and feelings on democracy in the everyday.

Even in 2016, listening to our bodies is a radical idea

Bristol company Coexist have caused a media sensation by discussing a ‘period policy’ for its majority female workforce

Enough is enough. Surveying sexism at work

A Cable survey of people who’d experienced workplace sexual harassment and discrimination, yielded shocking results. What can be done about this persistent issue?

‘It’s nasty and it’s bullying’: sexism and the council

As with most local authorities, Bristol's councillors are mostly male – and some bad attitudes have been surfacing of late. What can be done to level the gender playing field?

Behind the scenes: the Tara Hudson campaign

Instrumental in the campaign to move Tara was Bristol Pride. The Cablespoke to Daryn Carter, director of Bristol Pride, about why Hudson’s case became mainstream news, and what needs to be done to protect other transgender people from the same treatment?