Zoe Williams
latest news & developmentsAtheists: Excluded and overlooked
It’s not just refugee law. The low status accorded to unbelievers has now become a matter of systematic civic exclusion, writes Zoe Williams.
Ogling is an Olympic sport
An objectification amnesty has been declared for the duration of the Olympic Games – a smorgasbord of physical perfection, whatever your taste.
Whipping up an S&M wet dream
Why oh why have the erotic fantasies in the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ trilogy seduced millions of women?
Divide and rule, feminists
When we try to present a united front we are not asking too much of ourselves, we are asking too little, says <b>Zoe Williams</b>.
Getting the bad news overload
Revolutions, earthquakes, famine, scandals and killings — the headlines keep coming relentlessly.
Strauss-Kahn is accused, but it’s the maid’s word on trial
The presumption of innocence is extended to defendants but any past infraction can be used to torpedo Diallo’s credibility.
Can a feminist rejoice in the likes of Beyoncé or Lagarde?
Powerful women help society muddle towards equality — even if the R&B star is marriage-fixated and the IMF chief is a neoliberal.
The pill that changed the world
Scientist Carl Djerassi discovered the pill 60 years ago — and set the ball rolling from conception to contraception and back to conception again.
Health scare often just a brain scam
Misleading headlines about phones giving you cancer are rubbish. If we’re going to panic, let’s do it well and keep disbelief suspended.
The blush of youth
Maybe adolescents only went into embarrassment overdrive because the rest of us weren’t taking it seriously enough.
In place of decency
This is going to sound like a story I’ve made up to make a point. But it’s the truth. Last week I accidentally went on Iranian cable telly. I thought it was just AN Other cable…
Sweet, separate bliss
It is easy to think the worst of Americans. Perhaps you have just read that they are indulging a new trend — that of separate sleeping quarters for married people. Aha! you…