The Verse’s Meg Compton talks about the recent debate on the dress code for women on airline flights. Emily O’Connor had made her way through several different stages of the airport before being stopped and made aware that her outfit was deemed “inappropriate” for Thomas Cooks’ flight to Tenerife. A […]
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The Verse’s Francesca Thornton interviews Black Honey’s Izzy Phillips. On September 21st, sitting outside a pub in the North Laine. The sun shining as I sip on my cider bought for me by Izzy Phillips herself. We discuss Black Honey’s new debut album on its release day, Brighton and it’s […]
The Verse’s Kerrie Draghi tells us what she thinks of the author Gillian Flynn and her strong female characters. Author of Sharp Objects, Dark Places and Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn writes unlikeable women. Her female characters are damaged, dysfunctional, vengeful and sometimes murderous. I’ve watched a lot of ‘vengeful women’ […]
The Verse’s Tamara Stidwell explores the theme behind the theatre show Medea Electronica, after a startling performance at The Old Market last Thursday. “… nothing shall come between our love till the doom of death fold us round.” (Jason to Medea) In Greek mythology, Medea represented the most frightening monster […]
The Verse’s Sarah-Mary Geissler discusses Labour Deputy leader Harriet Harman’s autobiography launch at the University of Brighton’s Grand Parade on the 16th March. Disappointed in the omission of women in the memoirs of men (aside from wives and/or mothers), Harriet Harman offers her own observations of politics as a key […]
