Why Kat Banyard is the UK's most influential young feminist
Still only 28, Banyard has written a book, launched a website for women's groups, and works full-time – and unpaid – as a feminist activist
- The Guardian, Friday 10 September 2010
Kat Banyard: 'I remember feeling really frustrated: why weren't feminist issues headline news?' Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Until she was 18, Kat Banyard assumed that struggles for women's rights were the stuff of history books – of blurry photos of suffragettes, slightly less blurry photos of 1970s protesters. She had grown up in a close, loving family, attended an all girls' comprehensive and, when it came to sexual equality, all had seemed right with the world. Then she went to university to study psychology. There, she started noticing odd little incidents: sexist comments, male students using porn, a lecturer illustrating a talk about memory function with pictures of the tennis player Anna Kournikova in a bikini. "I remember feeling very uncomfortable about those pictures being used by someone who had authority over me," says Banyard. "I started wondering, 'What does he think of me? What does he think of other women?'"
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