Italy's long fight for equality
17 Mins read
How the battle for gay rights in Italy began in the 1970s with a brave, cross-dressing intellectual.
Remembering the suffragettes
3 Mins read
Artists and school students tell stories of Britain’s feminist pioneers
Q&A with the Posh Club creator Simon Casson
3 Mins read
The Posh Club is a weekly social club for older people styled as a 1940s glamour afternoon tea party. The social club started out in Hackney by the arts enterprise, homo-social honky-tonk and performance club Duckie.
Why gender-neutral toilets matter
4 Mins read
Artefact looks into the hot-topic debate of gender-neutral toilets. ‘The bathroom in your home is, by default, gender neutral.’
Selling an illusion
8 Mins read
Why women’s magazine feminism is a tool of neoliberalism
The trials of transgender teens
7 Mins read
According to Spain’s national federation of lesbians, gays, transsexuals and bisexuals, half of young members of the LGBTQI community are bullied at school.
Building Castells
1 Mins read
Artefact meets new band Castells and finds out how they’re making their way into the competitive music industry.
“Nobody dreams of being a prostitute”
10 Mins read
A group of Spanish sex workers fight for their rights
Expressions of androgyny
2 Mins read
Artists and performers K-HOLE ANKKH use painting and performance to create and promote a world free of binaries and gender expectations
Inside the Womanhouse
9 Mins read
A pioneering exhibition of female art in Los Angeles is recalled by its participants four decades on