I Call Myself A Feminist collates 25 extraordinary original essays by some of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women speaking out today. Punchy and bold, it is a book for our times.

Three of the contributors – Amy Annette (who also co-edited the collection), activist Yas Necati, and actor and musician Isabel Adomakoh Young – talk about why they call themselves feminists and discuss the issues associated with the term. Is the word feminist still to be shunned? Is feminism still thought of as anti-men rather than pro-human?

How does this generation of feminists - all under 30 - compare with those who have come before? How has the internet given them a voice and power previously unknown?

Yas Necati is a feminist activist, writer and campaigner. She is a team member at No More Page 3 and also campaigns for better Sex and Relationships education in the UK. She manages and edits for the US-based activist organisation Powered By Girl. Twitter @YasNecati

Amy Annette is a producer working across live comedy and the arts stages at Latitude Festival 2015. She graduated from Durham University with a degree in Politics in 2012 and immediately went to Columbus, Ohio to work on the Obama campaign there. Amy has produced award-winning comics at the Edinburgh Festival since 2010, including two years with Independent Talent artists in her role at there as an agent's assistant, producer and Live Booker.

Isabel Adomakoh Young is an English undergraduate at Trinity College Cambridge. She trained in static trapeze with the London Youth Circus. She has appeared in a number of Cambridge shows; performed at festivals and cabarets; sings in the band Corinthians; and is a founding director of Brainchild, a multidisciplinary summer festival. Her children’s books, the Lionboy trilogy (written with her mother), have toured the world as a stage show with Complicite. Her journalism has appeared in Varsity, Cambridge’s student newspaper, and she is commissioning editor for Ladybeard Magazine.

This is a Festival of Ideas event.

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