Uplift Magazine

The trouble with Mother’s Day cards…

2010-03-14T01:57:25Z

As I’m sure you’re all well aware, it’s Mother’s Day today! It’s a day for people to show the mothering women in their lives just how much they appreciate them… and one of the ways many of us do this is with a well chosen greetings card. But such a seemingly simple task is not [...]

Dayanita Singh’s Dream Villa

2010-03-13T01:42:42Z

New Dehli born and based artist Dayanita Singh is a brave woman. In order to seek out beauty, photographer Singh has been travelling at night to unfamiliar locations and setting about looking for dream-like visions to capture on camera. The result of her nocturnal travels makes up her new book ‘Dream Villa’. Part art object and [...]

Million Women Rise 2010

2010-03-12T20:31:32Z

Thousands of women from across the UK and beyond gathered in London on Saturday the 6th of March for the third annual Million Women Rise march. Travelling from Hyde Park, through Oxford and Regents Street to gather for a rally in Trafalgar Square, women marched, chanted and sang to assert their rights to lives [...]

First Woman ‘Best Director’

2010-03-13T01:40:09Z

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for becomming the first woman EVER to win the Best Director Oscar! Photo from The Examiner

New Feature: Tongues on Fire film festival

2010-03-08T19:29:28Z

In our latest feature Roshni Goyate of the brilliant Potpourri Express blog writes about Asian film festival Tongues on Fire. The festival, which began on Friday, is not only a great chance to see independent Asian films that wouldn’t usually be screened here in the UK, but the fest was also started with the aim [...]

Tongues on Fire: Beyond Bollywood

2010-03-08T18:56:35Z

Potpourri Express' Roshni Goyate takes a look at Asian film festival Tongues on Fire.

Celebrate International Women’s Day

2010-03-06T14:21:45Z

International Women’s Day is fast approaching (it’s on Monday, the 8th, in case you weren’t aware), which begs the question; What will you be doing to celebrate it? And when I say ‘Celebrate’, I don’t really mean party hats and bubbly booze (although this is also a very valid, and fun, way to mark the [...]

Million Women Rise Tomorrow!

2010-03-04T21:36:49Z

Just a reminder that tomorrow sees thousands of women marching through central London to call for an end to violence against women. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, Million Women Rise (MWR) will be marching for a properly government funded plan, backed by the commitment of all political parties, to enable women to live free from [...]

Speaking of Diversity in Modelling…

2010-03-04T00:39:03Z

Okay, so this whole “We need to re-imagine the entire modelling landscape” argument has really come to the fore-front of my mind lately. Whilst I could blame the fact that I’m reading Crystal Renn’s autobiography, Hungry, for the re-emphasising of this long held belief, I think my resurgence in interest actually came when Company Magazine announced they [...]

I. Am. Terrified!

2010-03-03T10:27:46Z

“My eyes! It buuuuurns!” Such were the screams that could be heard ringing around the staff room as I idly flipped through Grazia magazine on my lunch hour and chanced upon this advert. With this double page spread of grinning Barbies, all dead behind the eyes, I had been plunged unwittingly into the valley of the [...]