News & Views Women make up half the animation team on screen adaptation of Alison Lester’s classic ‘Magic Beach’ Women make up half the animation team on the much anticipated screen adaptation of Alison Lester’s classic ‘Magic Beach’
News & Views New AI tool calls out gender bias in classic fairy tales A new AI-tool is explicitly exposing the severe gender biases that exist in fairytales such as Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
News & Views Progressive or futile? ‘Offensive’ words removed from Roald Dahl classics Roald Dahl’s books have been edited and rewritten to erase language deemed offensive in today’s social English vernacular.
News & Views ‘I knew I didn’t want to hide something this big from them’: A conversation no parent wants to have Mum’s Purple Scarf was written by Jane Gillard to help other parents with that devastating conversation about a cancer diagnosis.
News & Views J.K Rowling releases new children’s book The Ickabog J.K Rowling announced she will serialise an online fairy tale “about truth and the abuse of power” in thirty-four daily, free instalments.
News & Views This pause is an opportunity to engage girls in STEM: Here’s how Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, is passionate about getting girls interested in STEM from an early age. Gender stereotyping starts early.