Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week
An individual campaigner has been working over the last year to develop a Sexual Abuse & Violence Awareness Week for the UK. Her aim is to unite statutory and specialist sexual violence and children’s support organisations in a campaign to raise awareness and...
Violence against women is increasing, shows research
New research into UK crime data by Lancaster university has shown that incidences of violence against women have increased in the last few years. This new research employs a new and improved methodology which removes the cap on the current recording of violent crime....
Coercive Control and the Law
We’re delighted to be able to begin 2016 with this news. You may have seen over the festive period that, on the 29th December 2015, a new domestic abuse law came into force which enables the prosecution of domestic abusers who exert coercive control over survivors....
5 facts you need to know about Hannah Arendt: the thinking person’s action hero
As Equation's Reel Equality Film Club looks forwards to our next screening event of “thinking person’s action movie” Hannah Arendt on 23rd June, we put a spotlight on the famous 20th century thinker with 5 facts that cement her status as an all-round badass icon. Fact...
The Voices: His Voice, Her Murder.
Challenging violence against women in real life requires challenging the way it is often glamorized or trivialized in fiction. Equation's Reel Equality volunteer, Sarah, explores the casual infliction of violence against women in Hollywood through a review of Marjane...
How to imitate the clever woman: The Imitation Game and Hollywood’s Reluctance to Allow Women A Mind
The Imitation Game follows mathematician Alan Turing as he designs a machine that interprets messages sent between the Germans and solves the Enigma Code. The film also pinpoints a time when society’s attitudes to women and homosexuality remained brutally regressive,...
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