(Just a quick post today – the three scariest exams are over, but there’s still one to come!) From The Guardian: A YouGov survey of 1,047 Londoners commissioned by End Violence Against Women Coalition (Evaw) found that 43% of women aged between 18 and 34 had experienced sexual harassment in public spaces in the last year. [...] … Continue reading »
The alternative title for this blog post is ‘Things I’d be blogging about properly if I wasn’t so overwhelmed by finals.’ Lately I’ve mostly been reading lots and lots of Shakespeare plays and criticism, and quite a few French grammar books because somehow (though I’ve no idea how) the last 4 years of my undergraduate … Continue reading »
Yesterday marked the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act’s implementation, on 27th April 1968. Last week, British TV presenter Jameela Jamil tweeted, “red lipstick, high heels, chocolate and Ryan Gosling… are the best things that ever happened to women.” As so often happens in the wonderful world of Twitter, this sparked a brilliant discussion on the actual best … Continue reading »
Today is the 253rd anniversary of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Born on this day in 1759, Wollstonecraft was the mother of feminism – and the mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Today is also the 44th anniversary of the implementation of the 1967 Abortion Act, which came into … Continue reading »
The Father by August Strindberg, new version by Laurie Slade. Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. 31st March – 14th April 2012. Directed by Joe Harmston. As a follow-up to Nora, I went to see The Father on Thursday with some of the lovely Coventry Feminist Culture Club women. The relationship between these two contrasting plays is fascinating and I’m glad the Belgrade … Continue reading »
If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you’ll have noticed that last Thursday I got engaged and (as those of you who follow me on Twitter will also know) found out I’ve got a place on the Newspaper Journalism MA at City University. It’s been a pretty manic long weekend (ok, I realise it’s … Continue reading »
During Women’s Week 2012 I interviewed feminists Cath Elliott and Kate Smurthwaite on the representation of women in public life. Cath Elliott is a freelance writer and blogger. She also works for a rape crisis centre and is a trade union activist. She took part in a Women’s Week debate on the glass ceiling because “it’s important to spread the word … Continue reading »
A student production of The Vagina Monologues has raised over £1,000 for Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (CRASAC). The play, written by American writer and activist Eve Ensler, is produced annually by Warwick Anti-Sexism Society (WASS) since 2008. This year’s three performances saw a combined audience turnout of around 230 people, raising a grand total of … Continue reading »
About this time last year, Eaves lost their government funding for the Poppy Project, resulting in enormous cuts to their specialist services for victims of trafficking. Two months later I started volunteering at Eaves, and I met Jasmine*. I must now have seen this video half a dozen times or more and it still makes … Continue reading »
