Caroline Criado-Perez
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Caroline Criado-Perez is a freelance journalist, feminist campaigner and co-founder of thewomensroom.org.uk.She is also founder of the Week Woman blog. She has written for publications including the New Statesman, and is an editor at e-feminist. Having studied at Oxford as a mature student, she is currently studying for an MSc in Gender at LSE. Caroline tweets on gender issues and politics as @WeekWoman and also runs the Week Woman Facebook page.

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The Narcissism of Privilege: The Left Needs to Be More Not Less Aware of It

(1) Comments | Posted December 17, 2012 | 9:14 AM

"...let's put aside our differences and start fighting back" says Tom Midlane in a recent New Statesman piece on privilege checking. Or as he so eruditely puts it, in a Freud name-check, "the narcissism of small differences". Which is ironic, considering Freud so embodied male privilege that he...

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Who's Laughing Now? The Sun's Spectacular Own Goal Over Hattie From Camberwell

(29) Comments | Posted September 30, 2012 | 7:00 PM

On Friday, Harriet Harman declared her support for the No More Page 3 campaign. Not long afterwards, the following tweet appeared on No More Page 3's twitter feed: "would respect her for addressing endemic muslim paedophilia, but no, nice soft target"

This piqued my interest,...

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Prejudice in Briefs: Why Page Three Is Toxic to All Women

(230) Comments | Posted September 20, 2012 | 7:00 PM

"Don't like it? Don't buy it!" So says the ever-helpful internet commenter. Sweetly thinking they're the first to make this insightful point. And at first sight it really does seem like the answer to my prudish eyes, that can't cope with a bit of flesh. Just don't look at it....

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There's Something Fishy in the State of Wolf Criticism

(4) Comments | Posted September 11, 2012 | 4:36 PM

There's been something a little unseemly going on in the past week, and it concerns Naomi Wolf's Vagina.

Sorry.

But all the best articles seem to start with a punning crack [god I'm really sorry, I can't seem to help myself] about Wolf's subject. And I can't help...

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Bare Boobs and Bare-Faced Bullies

(164) Comments | Posted September 9, 2012 | 7:00 PM

In 1987, Labour MP Clare Short tried to introduce a Commons bill opposing Page Three - our daily dose of boobs benevolently provided by the Sun, Britain's top-selling newspaper. The reaction was immediate - but starkly divided. From members of the public she received a stream of letters...

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