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Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – investigative journalist Sian Norris on going undercover with the many men of Reform

As a well-known left-leaning journalist, how does one turn up at a Reform rally and go undercover without being outed? This week, Sian Norris breaks that down for Isaac and Priyanka, as well as discussing the party’s rise and the far right’s wider attack on reproductive rights.

Priyanka Raval George Colwey
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

Features

Illustration in a red and blue colour scheme showing a central figure looking down, holding a medical test kit, against a backdrop individuals including a police officer, a judge, a person in a hazmat suit and a women looking into a microscope.

Are self-swab kits ‘the start of the end of sexual violence’, or could they cause more harm than good?

Laura Butler
Laura Butler

Features

‘Prison felt safer than the streets’: why women’s homelessness needs to be better understood

Jasmine Tyagi
Jasmine Tyagi
Three women standing with arms folded across their naked bodies, heads not visible.

Features

Meet the Bristol artist casting nipples to celebrate bodies 

Ellen Downes’ pioneering bodycasting project aims to help women, trans and non-binary people 'connect to' their bodies, while challenging hypersexualisation and sexual harassment.

GIgi El-Halaby
GIgi El-Halaby

Voices

Healing is a justice issue: how can we radicalise the voluntary sector, amid a perfect storm of cuts?

Maria Carvalho

Your Bristol Life

Listen: The Sound Of Saffron by Charlie West

Charlie West

Features

The menopause leaves some women struggling to work. But what can be done about it?

From depression to anxiety and chronic pain, it can be debilitating to go through the menopause. The Cable spoke to women about their experience and support at work.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Features

Do women really have equity in Bristol workplaces?

For International Women's Day, Steph Cullen interviews women about their experiences in the workplace, and asks: how equitable are Bristol's workplaces for women really?

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Voices

Image of Laura Williams and her child (image: Laura Williams)

When it doesn’t pay to work: how universal free childcare would help us all

Women are being priced out of work. Making childcare truly affordable wouldn’t only benefit individual families, but society as a whole.

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

Reports

‘It’s not pro-life, it’s pro-misogyny’: Bristol marches on abortion rights

A protest on Saturday saw speakers bring to light the murky legal picture around abortion in the UK, just two weeks after the US Supreme Court effectively banned abortions for millions.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Sexual harassment

Research by University of Bristol Students’ Union reveals half of respondents have experienced sexual harassment

Survey findings released today put the thorny issue of consent back under the spotlight at the University of Bristol.

Filiz Gurer
Filiz Gurer

Sexual harassment

PHOTOESSAY: March against male violence

In light of recent events, protesters took to the streets last weekend to demand men are held accountable for violence against women.

Alice Poole
Alice Poole
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