You’ve heard us fangirl about the website and what it stands for. Now, we’re absolutely freaking JAZZED to welcome Virginia Mendez, co-founder of The Feminist Shop, onto Geek Herring to talk all things feminism and being a professional feminist!

Believe it or not, Virginia hasn’t always identified as a feminist. Shocking, we know! But after a stimulating discussion with her father-in-law, believe it or not, who told her that all her ideals were that of a feminist, Virginia started to take the movement seriously.

And devote her life to raising feminist kids in an equal household, writing feminist childrens books, and starting her own hub for all things feminism.

I am a deep believer in normalising things associated with stigma - by doing so we take away the solitude that makes everything worse.

I have an eating disorder, I have taken medication to regulate anxiety, I had a miscarriage and I don't always love being a mother. From the 4 of them, all true, the one I am most ashamed to recognise publicly is the last one.

I was extremely lucky. Despite having all the ingredients to have postnatal depression (or even baby blues) with a birth completely different to my plan, previous episodes of poor mental health and the fact of being far from my own culture and language, I didn't suffer from any of it. Not the same luck for one-fifth of the mothers.

I was joined by the co-founder of THE FEMINIST SHOP Virginia Mendez Meson and we chat about her upbringing in Madrid, why she started The Feminist Shop, how she spreads the F Word and what her future holds!

Today is International Museum Day, and as I get in front of the computer to write this post my head starts going at 100 mph. What a fascinating topic to speak about! So many things that need to be addressed!

My favourite one lately is ArtActivismBarbie, a twitter account and initiative started by Sarah Williamson, a feminist, activist and qualitative researcher at the University of Huddersfield, who is on a mission to highlight in the way museums are dealing with women. From the lack of women painters (21 pieces against 2300 in the National Galleries) to the way women are represented to please men - constantly sexually objectified - and with a mandatory focus on the way women are described as daughter, wife, daughter in the descriptions. There is nothing Barbie can't address with her modus operandi "small signs, big questions and a fabulous wardrobe". Treat yourself by reading this article and following her for thought (and smile) provoking posts!

Today is International Nurses Day, and what a year to celebrate them eh?

I have been thinking about Nurses a lot since the release of Banksy's new mural. It clicked on so many levels that I couldn't shut up about it, so following Chris' advice "why instead of keeping telling me about it don't you write about it?" here I am.

I was looking forward to writing this article. I was looking forward to being honest, transparent and talking without any taboos about women's pleasure. Then I remembered that my father in law reads my newsletters and blogs and sometimes even leaves a nice message in the family Whatsapp group (Hi Malachy!). So, putting that thought aside as much as possible, I am going to be truthful with myself and write with complete freedom. Ready?

I have heard so many things about OMGyes, mostly positive. Anything that Emma Watson recommends with such passion is feminist approved for me, but I didn't know much more.

Tide Member Virginia Méndez is the Founder and CEO of The Feminist Shop, an online destination for the diverse feminist community, with a retail wing which sends clothing printed-on-demand to feminist shoppers around the world.

We asked Virginia how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting her company, the customers and her finances.

This topic is genuinely fascinating. There are a vast array of opinions about the concept of 'women and children first'. There are distinctly different ways to analyse it and use it for one side of the argument or the other. This definitely makes it worthy of its own blog post.

In case somebody is out of context, "Women and children first" was the protocol used in the Titanic when deciding who got to use the limited number of lifeboats; it was following the actions of the British troopship HMS Birkenhead during their own catastrophe in 1852 and it was a rule strictly imposed by the captain and the crew during the Titanic disaster in 1912.