MISS-OGYNIST UNIVERSITY OF LONDON?

protesters at the Miss LSE event

Last December, beauty pageants were held by student unions at each of the constituent University of London colleges. The plan was then that the winners would advance to the final where the winner would be dubbed “Miss University of London”. The protests against them held by students outside SOAS and LSE catapulted this issue into the national press.

The women’s officer at SOAS, Elly James, and her LSE counterpart, Ruby Buckley, who were both organisers of the ironically named “Miss-Ogynist University of London” campaign, were both interviewed by the national press, and the latter was invited to write an article to outline her case for the Commentisfree section of the Guardian Online.