First up in our list of poets for International Women's Day is Denice Frohman reading her poem A Woman's Place. I first came across Frohman a few years ago in a HeadStuff post by Alvy Carragher. Frohman's reading of her work is nothing…

To mark International Women's Day, HeadStuff's Film Writers selected some of their favourite female directed movies from the last two years. Atlantics, Dir Mati Diop Just as you thought no more could be done with the ghost story,…

We think every day should be a day to celebrate women, but this Sunday, the whole world joins in to recognise what still needs to be done to achieve gender equality, but also to recognise women's wonderfulness; International Women's Day.…

Gay surfers. There are many achievements under Kathryn Bigelow’s belt, not least the only Oscar win for a female director but Point Break may be her greatest in terms of pure entertainment. Bigelow was no stranger to genre before or after…

Welcome to Yet Another Article About International Women’s Day! (To answer the inevitable question: International Men’s Day takes place on the 19th of November.) The theme for IWD 2019 is #BalanceForBetter, a call for gender balance (let’s…

The portrayal of women in cinema has thankfully and drastically changed over the last 50 years. From the hard case personality the late Carrie Fisher injected into her portrayal of Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise, to the…

Last year for International Women's Day we here at the Gaming Section, deep in the basement of HeadStuff HQ, wrote about the women behind the games we all love so much. Well the call came down from upstairs and bellowed "MORE! MORE!". So…

I first became aware of International Women's Day in 2010. I had friends in a theatre group and heard through the grapevine that they were putting on a play they had performed before: Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. Some of their…

Gleann Nimhe By Ellen Nic Thomás Gleann Nimhe Flaithis nimhniúl ag leá faoi chois, Ag scaoileadh domlais dhubh. Táim gafa le galar, tinneas tógálach, Feoil is craiceann ag lobhadh. A Thiarna, más ann…

To celebrate International Women's Day 2018, music editor Andrea Cleary hosts a special episode of the HeadStuff Podcast. Andrea chats feminism, pop music, and the Irish music scene with some of the journalists, musicians, DJ's and critics…