By Emma Derringer
She said ‘They’re looking for someone who really wants to be a PA’
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Rain Brown and the Seven Harpies
A Slightly Feminist Fairytale by Bisha K. Ali
Illustrated by Sam Golin
nce upon a time, in the height of summer, when the Sun baked the ground into unyielding hardness and the people whispered in the dark for water, a Queen sat in her palace war rooms, poring over defence tactics with her husband, The King. Continue reading
Private Battle, Public Wars
Women of the Miners’ Strike 30 Years On
Public Battles, Private Wars came about by accident. I was researching another story idea when I came across an image of a group of women marching down a suburban street. They carried a banner: Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures. Continue reading
STH’s (Sexually Transmitted Humans)
I’m in my 30’s and I’ve been married for 4 years now, so people are totally comfortable asking ‘when will you have babies?’ which I always find a bit strange because it feels like they’re saying ‘tell me about your fanny’
Eww fanny.
Whoops, I Stole Your Boyfriend
Happy holidays, and well done for getting all the way through 2013, I think we can all agree, it was a bit of a dud. Roll on next year and all who sail in her.
Back To Life, Back To Reality
Feminist Fatigue
by Laura Thomas
As a woman in her early twenties, I have the common sense of a toddler and the get-up-and-go of a teenage boy. However, I do wish I were politically active; I dream of quoting philosophers instead of The Simpsons and I long to coherently express rage at social injustices instead of stuffing my gob with food.
One And One
By Chloe George
“There’s a tattooist at the party?” she said on the train there.
“Yes. He’s Naomi’s mate. He does them on the cheap.”
“At the party?”
He looked ahead.
“How much of a market can there be for that? It’s not like having your eyebrows threaded.”
Parenting A Feminist
By CJ Malone
Raising my darling feminist is a bit of a nightmare.
I had a quiet word with her teacher to find out what she’s like at school, because at home we find her to be a bit challenging.
Liberation Revisited
By Susan Law
Being a woman who “was there” in the 60s and early 70s, it goes without saying that I can’t remember exactly what went on. I do know that around that time, my lover’s wife decreed that The Female Eunuch was required reading. I did my best and pretended to understand it but the main vision I have now, as I think back, is the iconic book cover depicting a hollow female form with handles attached. The liberation movement seemed important because other women told me so. I listened and I read and became quickly bored with the shrill rhetoric, ‘Stop all the talk and just get on with it’ I thought.
