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Feminists ‘should unite not fight’

ELIF SHAFAK says her heart

breaks when feminists clash in the UK. “It’s as if you can either defend women’s rights or LGBTQ+ rights,” the novelist told a

Cliveden literary festival event. She added: “It’s not happening in Turkey, it’s not happening in Brazil. It’s not happening in those countries where there’s so much violence against both women and sexual minorities that you don’t have the luxury to get divided like this... we need to go beyond these conversations.”

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