Make Women Visible: December 2025
We celebrate women being visible in the news, because we think we need more of them. Follow along as we collect articles across different news sites reporting about about women. Starting this working document for December -> Send us your links via Bluesky or Threads.
We want to Make Women Visible! Because visibility isn’t optional. It’s vital.
Donald Trump Insults Female Reporter Over MRI Question US Journalism (Newsweek 12/01/25)
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut US Entertainment (The Guardian 12/01/25)
Why more young US women appear ready to move abroad US Women (BBC 12/01/25)
‘Hung by my wrists and beaten’: Israeli-Russian woman says Iraqi militants tortured her in captivity Iraq (BBC 12/02/25)
Australia won’t be intimidated by firms over social media ban, minister tells BBC Australia Social Media (BBC 12/02/25)
Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper bags now points to one of Colorado’s ‘most prolific serial killers’ US Crime (CNN 12/03/25)
Rebeca Grynspan: ‘The UN must sit at the most important negotiating tables in the world’ World Help (El Pais 12/04/25)
Student describes ‘horror show’ ICE deportation to Honduras at Thanksgiving US Politics (The Guardian 12/04/25)
Federica Mogherini resigns from College of Europe amid corruption inquiry Europe Corruption (The Guardian 12/04/25)
Dawn Sturgess’s family say lessons have not been learned from her novichok poisoning UK/Russia Crime (The Guardian 12/04/25)
‘I don’t take no for an answer’: how a small group of women changed the law on deepfake porn Artificial Intelligence (The Guardian 12/04/25)
People worldwide don’t know enough about menopause. Here’s why that’s dangerous World Female Health (CNN 12/04/25)
Eileen Higgins: ‘Government officials are talking about our residents as if they are less than human. They are not criminals. They’re part of this community’ US Politics (El Pais 12/08/25)
Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library US Careers (El Pais 12/09/25)
María Corina Machado’s hidden year: From clandestinity to the Nobel Prize Venezuela Nobel Prize (El Pais 12/09/25)
Zimbabwe’s only female heart surgeon on medicine, misogyny and making a difference Africa Medical Career (The Guardian 12/09/25)
You might also like other articles from our series and help make women visible:
Women in the news – November 2025
Women in the News – October 2025
Women in the news – September 2025
Women in the news – August 2025
Women in the news – July 2025
