A who’s who of celebrity feminism

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Queen of Feminism, and everyone’s latest favourite fem-crush, right. Her word is law, her approval like magic pixie dust. Crosses boundaries effortlessly: author, intellectual, style icon, fashion collaborator and friend-to-the-famous.

CAITLIN MORAN

Feminist-Zero. Sometimes it seems as if Caitlin, right, single-handedly revived our seriously flagging feminist spirits. Funny, rude, whip-smart, she took a whole lot of nonsense out of the debate, instructing us to put our hands down our pants: “a) Do you have a vagina? and b) Do you want to be in charge of it? If you said ‘yes’ to both, then congratulations! You’re a feminist”. Decades of antagonistic debate sorted, right there.

EMMA WATSON

The Earnest Feminist. Watson takes her role as public feminist very, very seriously. Which makes her, perhaps, a little lacking in humour, but so very worthy. For those who like their feminism with a dose of piety.

MADONNA

Events may have somewhat overtaken Madge, right, but for those of us who reached the age of feminist enlightenment — I’m putting this at 14 — any time in the early to mid 1980s, Madonna will always be up there with Germaine Greer. With The Female

Eunuch in one hand, and Material Girl blasting behind us, we were unstoppable. Now, seeing Madonna blaze a trail for ‘I’m-60(nearly)-but-I’m-sexy’ is both appalling and wonderful. Exactly as it should be.

DANIELLA MOYLES

The DJ and model, left, seems to live it effortlessly, using her newspaper column to champion women’s marches and take good, hard swipes at trolls, Trump, Piers Morgan and anyone else trying to restrict freedom or shame women.

BEYONCE

The Fierce Feminist. Got-it-flaunt-it-own-it feminist. Reclaimed ‘expressing your sexuality’ and turned it into the kind of statement we all want to make. Good at conveying the very essence of feminism via a perfectly executed twerk.

TAYLOR SWIFT

The Reluctant Feminist. Maybe even the unconvincing feminist? No matter how much Swift claims the label, she has yet to do anything very meaningful with it. The people are not loving her, or feeling very convinced by her.