Þórdís Elva Þorvaldsdóttir
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Women of The World Festival Drop Icelandic Event Following Protests
The Women of the World Festival has dropped an event featuring award-winning Icelandic author and activist Þórdís Elva Þorvaldsóttir and Tom Stranger from their programme, reports Vísir. The event, South of Forgiveness, was due to take place tomorrow at London’s Southbank Centre…
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“Don’t Be A Douchebag!”
Icelanders are outstanding in many fields. For instance, we proudly hold the record for youngest median age of starting sexual activity (pdf), the highest rate of Chlamydia infections, and the greatest daily internet usage of any European country. In line with these dubious achievements,…
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Get Consent
People in today’s society have an unprecedented access to information. Anyone can instantly find information about advanced thermodynamics or Simpsons episodes. However, with such an abundance of information, there is a very important question to bear in mind: Where is it coming…
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United in Vision: Women Go On Strike
The weather was beautiful– sunny yet chilly– on October 24, 2005. Women went on a memorable strike on this day in 1975, rounding up 25,000 sisters who refused to work, cook or clean and demanded to be heard. This year, women in…
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Bloody Brilliant
For decades, the movie industry has been fascinated with making films based on comic books. The most recent examples are Sin City, X-men, Fantastic Four, Batman and Spiderman. Some of these films do justice to the comics they’re attempting to capture, others…