Category: women
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Are you going through the motions?

Why do so many organisations have policies their members don’t agree with?
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What I learned from the cat

I’m not a cat person or a dog person. I like animals in general, but what happens to them when they’re around people, when they are “pets”?
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Super-fantastic ethnic people with lots and lots of genders

I do wish people would stop writing wild guesswork articles about long-gone cultures with different numbers of genders as if it proves anything about ‘gender identity’.
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Books are your friends, even when they seem to lead you into trouble

Expanding on the ‘ten beloved books’ game on Facebook
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RECLAIMING LESBIAN – Guest post by Paula Boulton

In 1988 I came out as a Lesbian at a time when Clause 28 had just been brought in…
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No news from anywhere

Remember the days when bookshops did not expect to be held personally responsible for, or assumed to be in agreement with, every line of every book in their shop?
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Sexuality and Synchronicity in Salop

Having spent over a year thrashing around in the gender wars and a weekend of glorious feminist goings on at Filia 2018, I suppose it’s not surprising that Human Aggression grabbed my eye on a book stall when I finally got myself off on holiday but Storr’s book did present me with A Big Surprise.
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It could have been me

One woman’s story: it’s been a year since Maria McLachlan was attacked. This guest post by Paula Boulton is an example of the journey many of us have been on in the last 12 months.
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A woman with a penis? A commentary on various gender-warriors

A commentary on ‘a woman with a penis’, the Morning Star letter and what happened at Pride London
