female representation

Emily Ash Emily celebrates the positive impact feminist game critic Anita Sarkeesian has had on her life. A lot of negativity has been published about Anita Sarkeesian’s video essay series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (TvW); there was negativity at the time, and there’s still negativity now. So,...

Recently, the National Gallery announced that it had bought a rare work by the seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi for the record sum of £3.6m. Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1615) is a striking image of female resilience created at a time when the idea of a woman...

Next Wednesday will see the DHP Family’s Women in Music event at Rescue Rooms; a group of women sharing valuable experience of working in the male dominated live music industry.  The inaugural event will address the gender imbalance in the music industry with the aim of creating an environment...