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A few weeks ago I went to see Suffragette at a press screening and I have to admit I was impressed.
Director Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan have produced a harrowing portrayal of the extreme measures white women took to take the patriarchy down a peg or two and give the white ladies of the land the right to vote.
Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and especially Anne-Marie Duff do the original white suffragettes justice with their performances as the key white women, from all class backgrounds in the early 20th century, who risked life, limb and family for the white female voice to be heard.
So you may be thinking, ‘jeez, this lady is really overusing the word white’, and you’d be right, because if I’m to go by the historical accuracy of the film, then we’re meant to believe that there were no women, nay people of colour, living in Britain during the early 20th… Read the full story
