Apologies to MadamJMo for the overused picture. I couldn’t find a suitable alternative – the one of Ken Livingstone just isn’t as good! It’s taken me a while to get this post down because life kept getting in the way, but better late than never, right? The one talk from UK Feminista’s Summer School that … Continue reading »
In mid-August I wrote to my local MP, Grant Shapps, the Conservative Cabinet Minister for Housing, regarding the proposed changes to abortion counselling, which would mean abortion providers were no longer able to provide this service and it would, instead, be passed to anti-choice religious organisations. This week, Nadine Dorries et al look set to … Continue reading »
As promised, here is my post on Saturday night, the Summer School after-party, hosted by Birmingham Fems. It was here that I learnt a lesson all women oughta know: that partying away from the male gaze is an incredibly liberating experience, on a par with going to the cinema alone and dancing around your room … Continue reading »
Along with 500 other feminists, I spent last weekend at the University of Birmingham, for UK Feminista’s Summer School. It was such an intense weekend that it’s hard to know where to start. After arriving at my brother’s house in Birmingham on Friday afternoon, the entire rest of the evening was spent discussing feminism, politics … Continue reading »
So, I have a new blog. One of the very first posts I ever wrote on my Tumblr, 18 months ago, was about my writer’s block – my repeated failure to start and maintain a blog because my love of writing is coupled with a crippling self-doubt in my ability to do so. Through that … Continue reading »
