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Trans women, trans men, AFAB - which is assigned female at birth - and non-binary performers, but especially trans women of color, have been doing drag for literal centuries and deserve to be equally represented and celebrated alongside cis men.

It's so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender, class, and race.

Like many women, my first lip color belonged to my mum. It was bright orange and very fashionable at the time.

It's absolutely critical, you know, to train young men and women not just to find sites, but also to protect sites, especially in the wake of the Arab Spring. There's been significant site-looting in Egypt and elsewhere across the Middle East.

If you look at a bill of comics at a comedy club they spread the women out over the months because there aren't that many women doing it.

Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.

Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives - some limiting, others illuminating.

Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships... why would we want to read about them?

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and reveal themselves to their heroines - the only women strong enough to match them.

It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.

How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.

I wish I was a writer but I'm not. We can just hope that people realise that women actually have incredible stories to tell so tell them.

I'm definitely happier dancing in Germany; in the U.S., there's a different level of competition. I find in general that I try to get my voice heard about protecting women. It comes from everything I've been through personally - I'm opinionated, and that doesn't make it that easy.

Women should be happy with their bodies. Not being afraid of yourself is very empowering.

I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.

I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Oh, there's a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women and immediately feel self-conscious. I do, anyway. I'm always convinced I'm going to fall flat on my face or something.

Women say things that are direct - they are told they are too abrasive. I got that feedback in the corporate world.

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.