Category: women
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Ordinary politics?
Yesterday (that was 6th April – the nearly-Armageddon day) just like millions of other people, I spent the day trying to earn a crust and thinking that although you can’t live on the state pension, it really can’t come soon enough if I’m to hold my little world together – but also yesterday, the BBC…
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A truly terrible book
I picked this book up because it’s subtitled Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction, and it got a further punch of urgency from the strapline by Eric Idle, ‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’. I thought it might be about one of the emergencies the great and the…
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Stand up to misogyny
This morning, I asked Shereen Benjamin if I could reproduce a post from her social media for a blog article. Here it is… Edinburgh Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) said this: Yesterday’s demo would not have been possible, or half as much fun, without the amazing Tom and Nathan from @cabaretagainst 🎶 Constantly keeping the…
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What is Your Party really dying of?
With thanks to Chetan Bhatt and Paul Knaggs for some definitions of things that we know but are very good at forgetting to take into account. A very wonderful am dram group presented a rendition of Peter and the Starcatcher in my town last Christmas. Good it was, funny it was, troubling it was, because…
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Books and broligarchy
A couple of blogs ago, I wrote about a Rose Tremain novel that I’d missed… … that set me off looking through her works to see what else I hadn’t read, and I came across Islands of Mercy. More of that presently… This week, I wrote about what the Epstein files really show up, and…
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Chomsky – Epstein – gender industry! — shocked?
I’m not. Nor are you, are you? Did you notice that once social media had had a day or two to gossip about the new releases, most thinking people have come round to ‘well, we knew that was how the world worked, nothing’s going to change…’ Honestly, go over to YouTube and watch some old…
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The long road to Farringdon
aka state of the Sisterhood 2025 ***NB there is a damning view of the Labour Party here, and a lot about FiLiA 2025 along the way, so I would like to make a distinction: whilst the Labour Party deserves to be despised, FiLiA is a unique and tremendously useful organisation, a charity which is largely…
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An orgy of destruction
Your Party, FiLiA, Zionism, the trans issue… People are asking now, is Your Party over? We never did figure out who ‘you’ is but, after New Year, local groups across the country who reckon we are us will be mustering to do what Your Party founding documents require, which is to organise, to further engage…
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A cascade of burning books
Three books, a short film and a talk This morning, I read somewhere that Israel has a huge mental health crisis to deal with after all the tormenting and killing of Palestinians the IDF have been doing in Gaza and across the West Bank. It made me think about what kind of trauma must be…
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This is what we mean by erasing women
‘Your Party’ have chosen the delegates for their first conference ‘by sortition’. They said this would ensure that a genuinely representative cross section of their supporters would be present. I suppose as we’re aiming for a ‘bottom up’ democracy, the fact that this has ruled out some of the natural leaders who’ve been working for…
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