Category: women
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How to use all that anger wisely
I went to a really interesting talk that a lot of people didn’t want me to go to last month. It was laid on by the local Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Apparently, even some members of their own organization had their doubts about it. It’s because the speaker was David Miller, who seems to have the…
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All human life
All human life on the planet is born of woman – Adrienne Rich That quote introduces the editor’s column in the latest edition of The Radical Notion which I intended to lose myself in, but people just kept lending me books, and suggesting I read books, some of which were immediately irresistible and so the…
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Reaching across #NoDebate
Notes for the sex-and-gender debate I am going to write this as though it were a letter to someone who thinks of themself as ‘a trans ally’ or perhaps a trans rights activist. I know such a person is highly unlikely to read my blog, because they think their opponents are ‘anti-trans’, and because I…
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The woman in white
An addition to my occasional series in which I have fun reviewing old books — in this case because I’ve realised that for me, and anyone else who’s discovered real feminism or anti-racism in recent years, it’s well worth looking again at books you read years ago – it’s amazing how they change, in the…
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Behaviour problems
The photo on the left is real. The one on the right is a photo-shop fantasy – but you already knew that, didn’t you. How did you know that? Things that can’t be said: Not so long ago, Starmer was asked if it’s true that only women have a cervix. His answer was that he…
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Sisters getting organised
Back in 2016, the day Labour MPs got together to try and force Corbyn out of his leadership role, the campaign group Momentum rallied thousands to gather at Parliament Square to demand that the Party ‘Keep Corbyn’. The sheer weight of numbers successfully cowed those MPs. As far as I know, it was the last…
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I never watch telly, but…
Okay, I watched Gender Wars last night. The world has, over the last couple of years, become aware of a problem that’s been developing for over 20 years. I’ve been up to my eyes in it for around 5 of those years, and feel I know the issues all too well, but so many people…
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The little-known story of being an immigrant
There aren’t many issues you don’t need to cover at a women’s conference. Most people know that women make up over half the population of our world, but surprisingly few realize the significance of being a woman trying to get along in a world designed by and for men. Few people realize how sex impacts…
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It shouldn’t take courage to say so
Juemin Xu and Louise Irvine are standing for the Labour Women’s Committee this year. They are supported by the Labour Women’s Declaration, because their manifesto includes standing up for women’s right to speak about women’s legal rights. Go back a few years and say that, and I simply would not have believed you. Nevertheless here…
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In honour of Diane Abbott
If tokenism worked, Diane Abbott would now be an honoured, senior politician: a figurehead, a hero – the first Black female MP to be elected to Westminster. What must it have been like, being the only Black woman in that hidebound, clique-driven institution? Yet she has served her constituency, being confidently re-elected every time, for…
Kay Green 