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Things to do this International Women's Day
Originally called International Working Women’s Day, International Women’s Day is a day of celebration and activism across the world. It was first established in 1910 by the Socialist International at a meeting in Copenhagen, and was originally celebrated on the 19th of March. Throughout World War I, IWD was used as a mechanism for protesting the war or showing solidarity, and in 1917 the women of Russia held a strike for “Bread and Peace” on the 8th March. It was a strike that led to the Czar abdicating and women gaining the right to vote. Finally, in 1975, International Women’s Year, the United Nations designated March 8th as being International Women’s Day. And that leads to the present day.
Nowadays, International Women’s Day is used as a day of protest, strike, and - on a more positive note - celebration. The theme of 2017’s IWD is #BeBoldForChange, and as such there have been numerous protests arranged throughout the world. Most notably, though, is the “Day without Women”. Women across the globe have been encouraged to strike by taking the day off from paid and unpaid labour, avoid shopping for one day (with exceptions for small, women- and minority-owned businesses), and wear red in solidarity.
If, like a lot of younger women, you are not in the financial position to be able to take a day off work, here are some other things you can get up to for International Women’s’ Day.
Attend an Event
There are so many events happening across the world to celebrate the achievements of women. The best place to check which events are happening near you is to visit the official IWD events website at https://www.internationalwomensday.com/events. Not all of them are taking place on IWD, such as the Women of the World Festival in London, which lasts until the 12th March and which boasts an incredible lineup of workshops, talks, music, film screenings, and more.
Educate Yourself
If you’re unable to get to an event, why not check out some feminist websites, blogs, videos, and blogs to learn a bit more about the feminist movement? There’s a great selection of feminist documentaries available on Netflix, which range in subject matter from child marriage to media representation. If you don’t have Netflix, you can always visit YouTube and take a look at some feminist vloggers. Or, if you’re into your more old-fashioned media, you could head to your local library or charity book store and pick up some feminist literature.
Donate to a Worthy Cause
Worried you’re not doing enough to support women across the world? Have a Google and look up some worthy charities and organisations that are actively making a difference. Sometimes, even the simplest action can make a huge impact. Charities and women’s rights organisations are facing a constant struggle for funding, so even a small amount could really help.
Support Your Local Independent Female Creatives & Businesses
As we all know, women keep the world spinning. So on International Women’s Day, why not make a conscious effort to eschew capitalism and instead support your local independent female creatives and businesses. That might not even require you spending money: simply sharing links to their websites or spreading the world can be really helpful. Make sure that the businesses you’re supporting are ethical, though, and that they aren’t treading on other women in order to get to the top!
Raise Awareness
This is the easiest thing to do (if you have access to a computer). As it’s International Women’s Day, there are articles and graphics about activism and women’s rights everywhere. So share, share, share! Log into your Facebook and post all the articles, videos, blog posts, and artwork you want. Give your friends access to information and help educate your peers who might not know about feminist causes. It takes very little effort, and can even be done from your phone whilst you’re lying in bed. Let everyone know that you are a women’s rights advocate and that you care about women. Maybe it’ll even strike up a conversation with your friends about what you can do in the future to help women in need.
Show Your Female (and Trans and Non-Binary) Friends and Family Some Love
It’s International WOMEN’S Day, so treat it as such. Get together with your friends and celebrate your achievements. Have a day that is focused purely on the women in your life. Tell them how much you care about them, how much you appreciate them. As women, it’s easy to get dragged down into a cesspit of negativity, sexism, and prejudice, so look out for your friends and family members.
Are you attending an event or taking part in a protest this International Women’s Day? Submit your stories and photographs to our site for a chance to be featured!
Words by Sophie Elliott
LGBT History Month: The Incredible Queer Women Who Shaped the World
You may not find them in a textbook, but you should definitely get to know the names of these awesome women.
Can you remember the first time you were taught about an inspiring LGBT woman in history class?
Until I ‘came out’ in my early twenties and did my own research, I hadn’t once opened a textbook or gone into school and learnt about a pioneering queer woman who defined her time. There are many courageous, innovative and downright badass LGBT women who shaped history in incredible ways, but due to cultural erasure you may not have heard about them, read their stories, or known about their identity.
With same-sex marriage being passed in many countries and queer women being steadily more included in the media, it’s becoming safer and more empowering to be LGBT than ever before. But in order to progress and fight for acceptance in the present, we need to be aware of who paved our way in the past.
If you’re looking to be inspired by historical women this LGBT History Month, here are nine amazing lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual and transgender women you definitely need to know about.
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rivera was one of the first women to throw a bottle at the Stonewall Inn raid in 1969.
Rivera suffered a tragic childhood, orphaned by three years old and abandoned at eleven to live on the streets and work as a prostitute. She was taken in by a local group of drag queens and went on to become a legendary transgender activist, and a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance. There’s even a street sign in New York City dedicated to her!
Christine Jorgensen
In 1952, Christine Jorgensen was thought to be the first trans woman in the United States to have sexual reassignment surgery. After her surgery she quickly became a celebrity, working as an actress, singer and transgender activist, touring the country giving talks.
Lili Elbe and Dora Richter should also be mentioned as among the first to receive pioneering surgeries.
Frida Kahlo
Considered one of the world’s greatest painters, Frida Kahlo has inspired generations of female artists and queer women. Kahlo openly had affairs with both men and women, including a rumoured romance with American painter Georgia O’Keeffe.
Barbara Gittings
“I’ve had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds…”
Barbara Gittings is widely thought of as the ‘mother’ of the LGBT civil rights movement, having accomplished huge milestones for the community before her death in 2007.
Her achievements include, among others: editing the first national lesbian magazine The Ladder, holding the first public demonstrations for LGBT equality, marching in the first New York City Pride Parade, and being part of the movement to get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality as a mental illness.
Teresa Millward & Helen Brearley
Teresa Millward and Helen Brearley were among the first couples to tie the knot after same-sex marriage was legalised in the UK in 2013. Their marriage symbolises a new era for acceptance of LGBT people in Britain and worldwide.
Sally Ride
The first American woman to travel into space in 1983, Sally Ride lived a very private life. It was discovered after her death in 2012 that she had been with a female partner for 27 years, having previously been married to NASA astronaut Steve Hawley. Ride is the first known LGBT astronaut.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was a black writer, feminist, lesbian, poet and civil rights activist, who embraced and defended every aspect of her identity fiercely.
Before her death in 1992, she created many works of literature expressing her outrage at social injustices she encountered during her life, which continues to inspire queer women to this day.
Lorde once wrote:
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves.”
Lorraine Hansberry
The writer of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway. She is known for her incredible literary talent and subversive politics.
Hansberry advocated for lesbian and gay rights throughout her life, and was widely believed to be LGBT herself, due to secret writings and personal letters found after her death in 1965.
Anne Lister
Anne Lister is thought of as the ‘first modern lesbian’; the wealthy Yorkshire landowner kept pretty graphic diaries of about a million words each describing her romantic and sexual relationships, and lived openly as a lesbian.
One of her journals states: “I love and only love the fairer sex… my heart revolts from any love but theirs.” (29 October 1820)
LGBT History Month runs throughout February in the UK. This year’s theme is Citizenship, PSHE and Law.
By Emily Chudy
BE A BODY PRESENTS: False Advertising, Dolls and Komodo
Be A Body Promotions always put on some great free gigs, and February 16th was no exception. Based in the Lock Tavern in Camden, they bring some of the best new bands to the fore and provide the backdrop for many great nights.
Komodo open the show with an atmospheric introduction, rapidly giving way to a driven and exciting set. With a sound reminiscent of Drenge but with some Libertine-esque vocal harmonies thrown in, they make for an intriguing and enthralling opener. New song ‘Jump the Gun’ stood out, not only for its release as a single next week but for its clear development on their previous songs in the set.
Dolls are always a delight and despite some technical difficulties make a dramatic entrance onto the stage at the Lock. The crowd responds timidly but positively to a raucous but coherent set, filled with songs that wouldn’t be out of place on the soundtrack to a movie like Clueless or Wild Child. An admirable aspect of Dolls’ music is the sensitive and considered use of negative space, something which lends itself naturally to the band’s formation as a two piece.
False Advertising headline the evening ahead of their upcoming appearance at SXSW. A three piece, like Komodo, but with an entirely different vibe. Energy and urgency fill the space with raw emotional expression, evoking images of kids in skate parks out way past their curfew. Switching up the lead vocalist for a few numbers was a nice touch, and in its best moments this set blossomed into a musical lovechild of Tubelord and My Chemical Romance.
Overall a well matched line-up of sounds, which shone through despite a number of technical setbacks, leaving the crowd feeling positive and enriched.
Words by Honor Ash Photography by Jess McPhee
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Like many of my fellow millennials, I started watching Gilmore Girls when I was a kid. I was seven years old, I loved to write, and was always busy with one creative project or another - it's unsurprising that Rory Gilmore became my idol.
By Sophie Jackson
As we look back on 2016 and wave farewell to our print magazine, the Parallel team members have come together to decide on their favourite features from our 2016 issues.
First up is our interview and photoshoot with Harnaam Kaur and Nik Hampshire, by Sophie Elliott.
After two years of publishing feminist magazines, the print side of Parallel is coming to a close. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us throughout our print runs, especially those who have been with us since the beginning. As many people may know, running a print magazine takes a lot of energy, money, dedication, and time. And, sadly, for some time Parallel has been struggling with a number of these elements.
As a grand farewell to our print magazine, we are going to be holding a flash sale where every magazine will be available for just £1 plus postage. But don’t fret – Parallel isn’t shutting down entirely. We will still be running our blog, and, as such, are reaching out for submissions for the blog in the same way we did for the magazine. So if you’d like to pitch an article, or are an artist/musician/filmmaker/creative who’d like to be featured, please pop us an email to [email protected].
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When I started thinking about this article, I was going to entitle it “Reasons to be cheerful”. As I started writing, however, thousands of people were being slaughtered in Aleppo as the Assad regime moved in on rebel-held territory, cornering innocent civilians before, allegedly, shooting them like dogs. Suddenly, “Reasons to be cheerful” sounded horrendously perverse.
Words by Imogen Robinson
When someone famous dies, no matter how well you feel you know them, it's near impossible to do justice to their memory.
Words by Sophie Jackson, image by Julie Gough.

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Issue 8, “Work” is Available for Preorder!
Issue 8 of Parallel is our final issue of 2016. The theme is “work”, and as such we discuss many topics, such as: freelancer rights; working women in film, recipes for working women; emotional labour; Muslim women & unemployment; socialist feminism; “masculine” work; how to maximise your income; unrecognised black women in history; and depictions of work in contemporary pop music. We have interviewed musicians, artists, and Youtube trio “The Pastels” - plus much, much more! We also have a tonne of submissions from our readers. Issue 8 is due out late November/early December (date TBC) and your preordered copy will be dispatched as soon as we get our first batch! Cover image by Victoria Chetley.
Order before the 30th November using code “PARALLEL8PREORDER” for an exclusive preorder discount!
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It is unlikely that many of us give much thought to who makes the clothes and jewellery we buy. For many people in their late teens and twenties, it is also unlikely they can afford to in any case.
New blog post! Words by Imogen Robinson
Some exciting changes are coming to our website! Stay tuned...! 💞 Image by Victoria Chetley
Issue 8 has gone to print and it’s Cyber Monday, so we’re in a good mood! Preorder issue 8 using our discount code and you’ll receive every back issue of Parallel as a free PDF download!
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Issue 8, “Work” is Available for Preorder!
Issue 8 of Parallel is our final issue of 2016. The theme is "work", and as such we discuss many topics, such as: freelancer rights; working women in film, recipes for working women; emotional labour; Muslim women & unemployment; socialist feminism; "masculine" work; how to maximise your income; unrecognised black women in history; and depictions of work in contemporary pop music. We have interviewed musicians, artists, and Youtube trio "The Pastels" - plus much, much more! We also have a tonne of submissions from our readers. Issue 8 is due out late November/early December (date TBC) and your preordered copy will be dispatched as soon as we get our first batch! Cover image by Victoria Chetley.
Order before the 30th November using code “PARALLEL8PREORDER” for an exclusive preorder discount!

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Parallel issue 7 is now available as a digital download for just £2!
Parallel issue 7 is the "Independence" issue, and as such is FULL of articles and artwork by independent self-identifying women. Featuring an exclusive editorial shoot with the amazing Harnaam Kaur & Nik Hampshire, this issue is one of our biggest and boldest to date. Subjects covered in this issue include: indie female-fronted bands; travelling independently; matriarchal societies; living independently; sad girl culture; independent women in the media; colonialism; indie games; DIY culture; abortion rights; and more. We have submissions from Royal Integrity, Laura Waddell, Desiree Feliciano, and many others.
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