Judy Mièl

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BIOPICS

The Iron Lady recasts an economic monstrosity as a victory for feminism. The coverage of the Iraq war recasts a quest for political destabilisation and profit as a victory…

GOD SAVE ANYTHING BEFORE MY SHOES

On and on, I’ve been hearing and reading that women love shoes; that it is women’s favorite accessory, that we’re obsessed, addicted, crazy for them and, furthermore, that the reasons…

RECHTSRADIKAL: A BRIGADE OF FEMALE AUTOMATONS

The contemporary dance world takes great pains to disembowel the stereotype of the mindless dancer—an automaton whose mind is erased by a life of training. One way to accomplish this…

FULFILLED WOMANHOOD IN DYSTOPIC SPAIN

Since the 1st January 2014, the legislation about reproductive rights in Spain has changed. If a child gets injured or contracts a life-threatening disease, one of the biological parents, preferently…

3MM

When your cold blade touched my naked neck for the first time a shiver overcame my scalp, my spine the thin fine hair that covers my body erected all at…

THE CONSTRUCTIVE POWER OF ANGER

You have heard it. You have, probably, lived it. “In an argument, the person who yells the first has already lost”, “there’s no greater greatness than forgiveness” and “Let it…

PRUDE REBEL

In the last weeks I have been struck by our hypersexual society. I think I was blind to it before. Of course we see the nudity, the racy jumpsuits and…

HIDDEN PREDATORS

I am wary of self-proclaimed “feminist” men. I have seen them too many times, they come crawling out of the woodwork every time we raise a feminist issue: “I…

CONCHA

CONCHA f (plural conchas) 1. seashell 2. Popular Spanish female name meaning “conception” 3. (vulgar, Latin America) cunt CONCHA is the Spanish word for seashell and also a…

YOU, GENDER FUCKER

Driving around Monterrey, Mexico. the taxi driver glances at me through the mirror. although I stare back at him he doesn’t stop. he repeats it a couple of more times,…