Fausterella

LATEST ARTICLES ( 34 )

• My Imaginary Student: How to Feel Old in One Easy Step

  The new university year is about to start. This is completely irrelevant to me at the moment. I graduated from college in 1996, and my oldest child is eight. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Angilt and Other Emotional Cocktails

  

  Babies only seem to have room for one emotion. It’s as though joy or hurt or hunger literally takes up so much room inside them that another feeling can’t get i... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• The Useful Anxiety of Narrative Thinking

  I think about being kidnapped far too much. It should not be high up my list of things to worry about. There is no obvious reason why I should get kidnapped. I... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Feel the Brixton Book Jam and Do It Anyway

  

  Tonight I am going to be one of the writers at the Brixton Book Jam - at the Hootananny pub in Brixton, 7pm onwards, free entry - and will be reading an... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Father’s Day Feminism

  

  It’s Father’s Day this weekend. It may be a manufactured holiday but I celebrate it anyway, so I’m in a shop trying to find a card for my dad in the three... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• A Genderswitched Anthology

  

  But it isn’t only that Jeeves’s judgment about clothes is infallible, though, of course, that’s really the main thing. The woman knows everything. There was... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Can Men Be Funny?

  

  It’s a question some people think shouldn’t even be asked. But today we put political correctness aside and have the courage to say openly: are men funny?Let’s... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Ten Twitter Feeds of Joy

  Twitter is an incredibly flexible medium: diary, conversation, promotional tool, link collection, repository of tiny fiction, joke factory, confessional. And... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Things to Which I Have Been up

  

  I think building her a snow throne may have given her ideas above her station.I haven’t been making blog posts as often this year as I did last year. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Smashed and Gleeful: Some Notes on a Tiny Genre

  

  US show-about-a-show Smash starts on Sky Atlantic this weekend. Like Glee, to which it is constantly being compared, it’s a TV series with musical numbers. Read more

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

• Skull Bunnies, Zombie Peeps and the Eggbot: Easter Links

  

  Easter! Time of chocolate, pastel-coloured items and… some religious stuff that is less related to chocolate. In honour of the occasion, have some links to... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• I Am Sad Because I’m Not Beautiful Like Samantha Brick

  A few weeks ago I read an article about Shin In Geun, the first person known to escape from a North Korean prison camp. Up until today I thought he had... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Only Two Months Till The World Ends Again

  

  After last year’s excitement when Harold Camping prophesised the Rapture not once but twice - and then fell mysteriously silent, perhaps because he’d been... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Seven Mildly Annoying Things People Say

  

  Nothing is certain except death and taxesAs current UK events are illustrating, taxes are far from inevitable provided you have enough money. And my friend... Read more

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