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LATEST ARTICLES ( 34 )

• Mad Max: Emerald City

  

  Spoilers for Mad Max: Fury Road. And, should it be a problem, also spoilers for The Wizard of Oz.It’s fair to say that action movies are not my most-watched... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• How Old Am I? Jumbled Reflections on 40

  In the last few weeks I have sometimes found myself doing a private, me-specific quiz. It goes as follows:Q: How old am I? A: a) in my thirties b) in my late... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Old Year’s Resolutions

  It’s been said before, but a year is a ridiculous amount of time to make a resolution for. I can barely think a week ahead, personally. Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Here is a Link to a Gift I Might Have Given You If I Were Giving You a Gift

  

  Let’s face it, Christmas is coming very soon now. Like a giant wave of red and gold glitter on the horizon, it is facing you down, poised to engulf you in a... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Mentally Unwell Isn’t Less Than Human

  

  Guest post by Sally Brewer, reprinted with permission from a private rant. So, I was just reading an article about zoos. It was in the Guardian, it was a very... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• How Bad is Kristen Stewart’s Poem?

  I have no real qualifications to write this post. I don’t know what divides a good poem from a bad one. I do have an English degree, and we probably did... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Twelve Things I Now Know About Gluten

  

  It’s been two and a half years since I found out I had coeliac disease, the treatment for which is never to eat gluten again. (The things I do for my villi.)... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Twitter, Kangaroo Courts and Woody Allen

  This is what a kangaroo court is:An unfair, biased, or hasty judicial proceeding that ends in a harsh punishment; an unauthorized trial conducted by... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The Hobbit Regendered

  “That would be no good,” said the witch, “not without a mighty Warrior, even a Heroine.”There’s been an article going round in the last few days about a mother... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Car Plasters, Unicorn Swearing and Breakfast Floss: a Random Christmas Gift Guide

  

  There are… things you find, when doing online Christmas shopping. Stupid things. Things you might secretly, guiltily want to buy for someone, but you have nobod... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Is Online You The Same As Drunk You?

  

  I was born in 1975. Which means that for the first 20 or so years of my life, I didn’t have the internet, or mobile phones, or even email. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The Delicious Fudge: a Tribute to a Plot Resolution Trope

  

  Resolution is important. You’ve spend all that time getting involved in the characters’ problems, intrigues, romantic complications etc., and you want a properl... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Of Course You Can’t Say…

  I tend to find that the internet is not a friend of rhetoric. Like satire, it seems to get taken literally, which leads to rows and angry blog posts and... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The UK Top Ten, by Someone Who Has No Idea

  It has been perhaps 25 years since I regularly knew who was number one in the UK music charts, let alone the top 10. My default listening is Leonard Cohen and... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The Ghostly Voyeur: a Punchdrunk Experience

  

  Instead of sitting in a theatre watching actors, you’re walking round a large building watching actors. Is the only difference between Punchdrunk and traditiona... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Happy Valencake Day!

  

  It’s that time of year! Yes, Valencakes has come round again – that tasty and glorious day when we celebrate our love for the pancake. Traditionally, by making... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• This is What a Feminist Looks Like

  A guest blog post by Cat Let’s get this out in the open – me and feminism haven’t always got on. For a long time we had a far from easy relationship and I... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The Twilight Division: A Cinematic Proposal

  

  OK, so I like the Twilight films. The actors and the scenery are pretty, the plot is a perfectly good vampire story, and I like the way Kristen Stewart says... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Feminine Power: No Thanks!

  A friend was recently sent a link to an event taking place next weekend, called The Keys to Feminine Power – Awakening the Three Power Bases of the New... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The Tiger Lillies’ Hamlet

  So, Hamlet. Hamlet’s great, of course. Lots of words. Lots of characters to say the lots of words. But you know what’s even better? Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES