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
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.”
Blue Sky Thinking
By Anna Booty
The buzzer rang. Sadie looked up from buttering her toast. Who could that be? Annoyed, she sat still just looking at the door for a moment, hoping whoever it was would go away.
The Elephant In The Room
I leave the house with a flirty bounce in my step, full of confidence. I had dressed to suit my voluptuousness, had braved the shops where a ‘medium’ is now ‘large’ and women are sized out of existence. I had complied with the women’s magazines.
DIY – Online
Although we’ve always prided ourselves on our paper produce, it’s probably about time we got a bit modern and started doing stuff online, like, you know, everyone else.
The once potentially paper issue 6 – DIY – will now be fully digital, which is nice because it means we can rely on Google, WordPress and your computer for layouts, publishing and distribution. It also means we can amend typos whenever we stumble across them and publish our contributors words, even when there’s more than 300 of them.
So welcome to the future of KB, it’s here, in your eyes, right now.
We missed you guys
Marie Berry x
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