Before arriving in Russia for my year abroad, I had made a fair few assumptions about what the country would be like: a dreary landscape filled with stern, unforgiving faces, stuck in the Soviet bubble and resistant to foreign influence. Pictures of a cold, industrial place whirled around in my mind. I was terrified about […]
Feminist Friday: the gendered language barrier
In the globalised, 21st century world, traditional language barriers have all but lost their significance and digital advancements have made communication easier than ever. So now we can have a dialogue, it’s time to break down the repressive lexical and semantic walls erected by our ancestors that form the gendered language barrier and to make […]