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Rihanna: 'That's a part of my life I want to throw away'

'Before, young girls would look at me and think my life was perfect. Now they realise it's not.' Photograph: William Selden Rihanna's head soars above the cloud of stylists, photographers, PR people and managers that mill around her, completely ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, The Guardian Music,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rihanna,  Jay-Z,  Chris Brown,  Grace Jones,  Los Angeles Police Department

Jennifer's Body: a feminist slasher?

Exploitation movies have been variously described as trashy, improbable and flat-out fun – but feminist? Not often. With their catfighting biker chicks, sadistic serial killers and plotlines featuring nubile women under attack from sea creatures, these ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Diablo Cody,  Megan Fox,  University of California, Los Angeles

Kate Mosse's golden touch

Author and founder of the Orange prize Kate Mosse. Photograph: Linda Nylind On more than one occasion in our interview, Kate Mosse shakes her head, and says, "Obviously you can't write that. It sounds too gooey." It's a recognition of just how charmed ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Kate Mosse,  Anne Michaels,  Iris Murdoch

Trailblazers: The early women aviators

Pilot Hélène Dutrieu, who was known as the Woman Sparrowhawk. Photograph: © Bettmann/Corbis If the women aviators of the early 20th century sometimes seem to have been almost comically courageous, improbably determined – a collection of gung-ho, ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hilary Swank,  Amy Johnson

It's in the blood

One of Ingrid berthon-Moine's portraits of women wearing their menstrual blood as lipstick. Photograph: Ingrid Berthon-Moine One morning in 2005, Chella Quint was lying in bed wondering if her period was due. That day she was entering a contest to ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Erica Jong,  Germaine Greer

'I can't hang around'

Kerry Fox likes to avoid repetition – not just in her choice of roles, but in her mannerisms, too. "When I recognise myself repeating a gesture," says the actor, "it jolts me." This might explain the wildly varied characters Fox has played: the shy, ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Jane Campion,  Ian Hart,  John Simm,  John Keats,  Hanif Kureishi

'I had to learn to smoke a joint'

Judi Dench as Mona Carvell in Rage, a new film by Sally Potter. Photograph: Sally Potter In a small room in a large hotel in London, a woman often described as our greatest national treasure – the actress who once beat the Queen into second place as ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Judi Dench,  Harvey Weinstein,  BBC,  Jude Law,  Eddie Izzard

Not for sharing

Fridge life . . . what we eat when we're alone. Photograph: Patrick McFarlin/Illustration The foods that we share, the meals that bind us together, have a code that we all implicitly understand. We know that the starter precedes the main course, ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Aug 2009

Art on the edge

In the last months of her life, in 2001, the artist Margaret Kilgallen could be found atop a scissor lift, creating one of her trademark installations for a show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia – a towering, hand-painted ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Stanford University,  PBS,  Harmony Korine,  Mike Mills

Feminism's calm champion

Katherine Rake: 'Young activists give the lie to the idea that there is no new feminist generation' If the stereotype of a feminist is an angry woman, steam streaming righteously from her ears, then Dr Katherine Rake seems the polar opposite. The ...

From KIRA COCHRANE, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Jul 2009

Related Topics: World Economic Forum

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