Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest funniest bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project) Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist & author) Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old activist) Laura Pankhurst great-great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst & an activist in her own right comedian Sofie Hagen engineer Naomi Mitchison & Louise O' Neill author of the award-winning feminist Young Adult novel Only Ever Yours Writing about a huge variety of subjects we have Martha Mosse & Alice Stride on how they became feminists Amy Annette addressing the body politic Samira Shackle on having her eyes opened in a hostel for survivors of acid attacks in Islamabad while Maysa Haque thinks about the way Islam has informed her feminism & Isabel Adomakoh Young insists that women don't have to be perfect There are twelve other performers politicians & writers who include Jade Anouka Emily Benn Abigail Matson-Phippard Hajar J Woodland & Jinan Younis Is the word feminist still to be shunned? Is feminism still thought of as anti-men rather than pro-human? Is this generation of feminists
- outspoken funny & focused
- the best we've had for long while? Has the internet given them a voice & power previously unknown? Rachel Holmes' most recent book is Eleanor Marx A Life; Victoria Pepe is a literary scout; Amy Annette is a comedy producer currently working on festivals including Latitude; Alice Stride works for Women's Aid & Martha Mosse is a freelance producer & artist