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Invisible Women - THE OLYMPIC EDITION
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Aug 2, 2021

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7 min read

Invisible Women - THE OLYMPIC EDITION

Hello! This newsletter is free to read and it will remain free – but it isn’t free to produce. If you want to support the work that goes into this newsletter please consider becoming a member.Thank you!

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - "they can only have been designed by a man"
LockSimple

Jul 26, 2021

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5 min read

Invisible Women - "they can only have been designed by a man"

Hello! This newsletter is free to read and it will remain free – but it isn’t free to produce. If you want to support the work that goes into this newsletter please consider becoming a member. Thank you!

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - finally! a medical device for ladies!
LockSimple

Jul 5, 2021

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12 min read

Invisible Women - finally! a medical device for ladies!

Hello! This newsletter is free to read and it will remain free -- but it isn't free to produce. If you want to support the work that goes into this newsletter please consider becoming a member for £3 a month Thank you!

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - "sweety, you're in my a-hole"
LockSimple

Jun 28, 2021

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9 min read

Invisible Women - "sweety, you're in my a-hole"

Hellloooo GFPs*! And welcome to this, the 54th edition of the Invisible Women newsletter ✊It's so exciting seeing this community grow and grow: there are now over 20.5k of us -- a real force to be reckoned with! Although of course we can always get bigger, so if you know of any GFPs-in-waiting, GET THEM HOOKED UP 😃

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - universal adult size
LockSimple

Jun 21, 2021

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10 min read

Invisible Women - universal adult size

GOOD MORNING GFPs!First things first: I am an idiot. I had forgotten to put the instagram live in my diary and now I've got double-booked for doing a tv show called Steph's Packed Lunch on the same date. ARGH! I'm so sorry!I am instead therefore going to do the instagram live on WEDNESDAY 23rd JUNE at 12:30. All exactly the same, except 24 hours later. And I'm putting it in my diary now! Thank you very much to members who have already submitted such great questions; since I have screwed up I am giving you till the end of today to get them in! Check your emails for details :)Oh and I guess you could watch Steph's Packed Lunch as well? It's on tomorrow (Tuesday) and I will be spreading the "women-are-not-small-men-and-you-might-like-to-design-for-our-actual-bodies" message HARD. Oh gawd, it's just occurred to me I will have to wear actual clothes being as this is in an actual studio and not in my home where I can wear pyjamas from the waist down. I miss lockdown 😭In further CCP-is-an-idiot news, I discovered a bit of a tech screw-up on some of the links I included for becoming a member in the last couple of weeks: a few of them led to a form that was meant to be pre-populated with your email address -- but was instead pre-populated with mine. I'm so sorry, especially to the poor person who then tried to become a member using my email address! To whoever that was, I wasn't able to contact you personally as the email address I had for you was...mine 😬 your membership has been cancelled, but feel free to sign up again! And thank you to the kind GFP who alerted me to the problem ✊For those of you who want to sign up and would like a correct link, here you go!AND FINALLY: I had my first period since getting my vaccine. It came on time and was pretty much uneventful. I did experience more hormonal mood-swings than usual, but that could be caused by anything. Anyway, just an extra data point for GFPs worrying about impact on your menstrual cycle. Yes, the evidence suggests it may temporarily affect it, but that doesn't mean it definitely will. I am still going to be filling out the survey I shared a few newsletters ago, as it's important to hear from people who haven't experienced any impact as well was those who have, so we can more accurately determine the number who will be affected. So if you're vaccinated and get periods, fill it in! And if you aren't vaccinated: get vaccinated!And now for something completely different....

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - the "idiosyncratic" female colon
LockSimple

Jun 14, 2021

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11 min read

Invisible Women - the "idiosyncratic" female colon

Hello GFPs!

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - the 3 genders: men, kids, and unisex
LockSimple

Jun 7, 2021

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11 min read

Invisible Women - the 3 genders: men, kids, and unisex

Wow. My dear GFPs, what an amazing response to last week's launch! We surpassed 500 members in the first day!! Those quick-off-the-mark 500 will be receiving an email this week to ask for your postal address so I can get the GFP bookmark in the post to you (they arrived on Friday and they look GREAT!) If you missed out this time, please don't worry: I have more GFP plans for the future!Thank you all so much for the many many wonderful emails you took the time to send telling me how much this community means to you and how excited you are to become members. I also loved receiving your suggestions for how to develop and expand this community; so many of you are already taking ownership of this movement, which was exactly what I hoped for and is so exciting to see happening already.Finally, thank you also to those of you who didn't feel I was charging enough and would like to pay more! I'm pretty happy with the level I've got things at for now, but I of course bear your comments in mind, and I will look into the possibility of being able to offer one-off donations too as several of you lovely lot suggested. I'm so excited about what we're going to be able to do with this and where we're going to take it!For those of you who missed last week's newsletter and have no idea what I'm rabbiting on about, you can catch up here. And for those of you who would like to become members but haven't got around to it yet, you can do so by clicking here!RIGHT! Let's get on to the important work of gender data gap grousing shall we....

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - SHOCK as archaeologists discover women existed in ancient Thebes 😱 PLUS! The next step for GFPs
LockSimple

Jun 1, 2021

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16 min read

Invisible Women - SHOCK as archaeologists discover women existed in ancient Thebes 😱 PLUS! The next step for GFPs

My dear GFPs, welcome, if you can believe it, to the 50th edition of the Invisible Women newsletter! First off, I want to thank you all so much for joining me in this sometimes infuriating project of documenting and ultimately, hopefully, closing the gender data gap.And second, I want to share with you an important announcement: over the lifetime of this newsletter many of you have very kindly asked if you can contribute financially to this newsletter. I've held off doing that as I wanted to keep this open to everyone: closing the data gap is going to take an awful lot of people and putting this information behind a paywall does not serve that goal.But I have come to a point with this project where it just isn't sustainable to keep producing this newsletter in my spare time -- I can't reliably give it the time and attention it deserves and needs each week. AND, I want to do more with this amazing community we are creating. And to do that I am going to need your help. So as of this week, if you want to become a paying member of the Invisible Women community, you can! For more details, read on, GFP, read on!

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - default male knobs
LockSimple

May 24, 2021

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5 min read

Invisible Women - default male knobs

Periods, vaccines, and making space for girls

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women - women are not adults. or doctors. or professors. or lawyers.
LockSimple

May 17, 2021

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6 min read

Invisible Women - women are not adults. or doctors. or professors. or lawyers.

Yes I know we've already done the women are not adults thing: when the science guys stop so will I 😘

Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez
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