Marisse Caissy of Montreal participates in the GoTopless Pride Parade in New York City. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/APMarisse Caissy of Montreal participates in the GoTopless Pride Parade in New York City. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/APProtest This article is more than 7 years oldTopless protesters bare breasts in push for women's rightsThis article is more than 7 years oldMarches in New York City and elsewhere around the world‘Push for women to go topless is as strong as women wanting to vote’Women around the US were taking off their tops on Sunday to mark GoTopless Day, a day that seeks to promote gender equality and a woman’s right to bare her breasts in public. Read More...
OpinionDating This article is more than 8 years oldValentine's Day isn't about you, men. It's about lavishing love on womenThis article is more than 8 years oldAnna BreslawMen act like helpless damsels in distress all year round, expecting women to pick up the slack. It’s not too much to expect one day of total goddess treatment
Like chocolates, candy hearts and generic cards, the yearly resurrection of the high-maintenance girlfriend trope on Valentine’s Day is inevitable. Read More...
Book of the dayBooksReviewThe Golden Hill author turns his hand to the detective genre in a multilayered reimagining of 1920s America
Francis Spufford’s fabulous third novel is a piece of pulp fiction disguised as speculative history, or possibly vice versa: the tale plays both sides and switches lanes in a blur. It is set in an alternative 1920s America that is recognisable at the edges and unfamiliar at its core, centred on a First Nations people who have avoided the worst effects of manifest destiny to maintain a toehold of power in the febrile midwest. Read More...
