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  • Trigger warnings all round!

    Trigger warnings all round!

    Results of the Earlyworks Press short story competition, some trigger warnings and a 100-word challenge in Hastings

    Kay Green

    December 13, 2018
    Book reviews, Earlyworks Press, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized
    Book reviews, Books, Competitions, free press, Free Speech, Neil Gaiman, Poetry, Printed Matter Bookshop, Publishing, reading, Short stories, Writing, writing competitions
  • Super-fantastic ethnic people with lots and lots of genders

    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’.

    Kay Green

    November 27, 2018
    prejudice, Uncategorized, women
    Equalities, Gender, sex, women
  • Books are your friends, even when they seem to lead you into trouble

    Books are your friends, even when they seem to lead you into trouble

    Expanding on the ‘ten beloved books’ game on Facebook

    Kay Green

    November 10, 2018
    Book reviews, Politics, prejudice, Uncategorized, women
    Book reviews, Books, C S Lewis, Enid Blyton, Equalities, J R R Tolkien, sex and gender, Trans kids
  • RECLAIMING LESBIAN – Guest post by Paula Boulton

    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…

    Kay Green

    November 9, 2018
    activism, Uncategorized, women
    Clause 28, homophobia, Lesbian revival, same-sex marriage, women
  • No news from anywhere

    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?

    Kay Green

    November 7, 2018
    Book reviews, book shops, Politics, Uncategorized, women
    Equalities, News From Nowhere, sex and gender
  • Records, rivers, rats and a 100-word challenge

    Records, rivers, rats and a 100-word challenge

    Last chance to enter your short story for 2018 and – the poetry and flash anthology cometh.

    Kay Green

    October 28, 2018
    Book reviews, Earlyworks Press, Poetry, Short stories, Uncategorized
    Earlyworks Press, flash fiction, Poetry, Short stories, Writing competition
  • Sexuality and Synchronicity in Salop

    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.

    Kay Green

    October 27, 2018
    activism, Book reviews, Politics, Uncategorized, women
    Anthony Storr, Cordelia Fine, Filia2018, Hibo Wardere, Kate Smurthwaite, Steven Godlberg, WAST Manchester
  • Pleasant distractions

    Pleasant distractions

    As Shaun Bythell of Wigtown Bookshop demonstrates in the pages of his diary, people who depend on book sales for a living in the 21st century have a definite Black Books air about them.

    Kay Green

    October 27, 2018
    Book reviews, book shops, Circaidy Gregory Press, Earlyworks Press, Uncategorized
    Book reviews, Booka, Books, Llangollen Bookshop, Oswestry bookshops, Pengwern, Shrewsbury bookshops, Wigtown Bookshop
  • How to Win at King’s Cross

    How to Win at King’s Cross

    A review of How to Win at King’s Cross – and some other stuff by Cathy Edmunds

    Kay Green

    September 22, 2018
    Book reviews, Poetry, Uncategorized
    Catherine Edmunds, Erbacce Press, How to Win at King’s Cross, Poetry
  • It could have been me

    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.

    Kay Green

    September 19, 2018
    activism, Politics, Uncategorized, women
    activism, Fairplay for women, GRA reform, Maria McLachlan, Paula Boulton, Politics, sex and gender, silencing women, women, women’s rights, WPUK
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