"It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high." — Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) The bundling up of female artists in an art show will forever remain one of my most gigantic and infuriating pet peeves. Besides, it is my firm belief that this show could and should have been an exclusive and much overdue celebration of Käthe Kollwitz's art. In my questionably modest view, her work is vastly superior to the rest in terms of intensity

It's been a year since the last presidential elections in Belarus. As Alexander Lukashenko was being crowned for the 6th consecutive time, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest. I remember seeing photos and video footage and realising how much courage it took to just be out there in a country where a violently repressive regime has all but wiped out independent media, arrested political opposition leaders forcing them out of the country and where any

Domestic abuse is a gendered crime. According to data from 2019, 92% of the defendants in domestic abuse-related prosecutions in the UK were men, 75% of the victims were female. The pandemic has made things worse, providing a breeding ground for a sharp increase in these crimes. In Russia, data provided by NGOs indicate that the number of victims and cases of domestic violence may have doubled. The same figures are up 30% in France, 25% in China. The pandemic within the pande