Have You Been a Victim of Gaslighting?
What is Gaslighting? Gaslighting is a form of emotional and psychological abuse through the use of manipulative comments and behaviour. The term Gaslighting is used to describe manipulative...
View ArticleBook Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: Our Glorious Diversity
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
View ArticleBook Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: Our Salvation is of the Jews
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
View ArticleFabulous Female: Mathilde Fibiger (the First, Danish Feminist
This week’s Fabulous Female is Mathilde Fibiger, the first Danish feminist. I read a biography about her called ‘Passionsblomsten’ (The Passion Flower), which is by Bodil Wamberg. All quotes from the...
View ArticleBook Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: I Stand Here Before You
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
View ArticleBook Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: Unbiblical, Unchristian,...
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
View ArticleWriter’s Wednesday: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu
It took me just over a month to read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu back in February/March. Not because it’s long, it’s just over 200 pages, but because it is so...
View ArticleNot a Feminist?
*Originally written in 2011. Republished from my old blog.* Why Am I a Feminist? Because women’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we’re the first to get fired...
View ArticleFriday’s Fabulous Female: Helen Bamber
This week’s Fabulous Female is Helen Bamber, an amazing woman who went to the Belsen concentration camp to help Holocaust survivors at merely the age of 18, and who has never stopped fighting for...
View ArticleDoing the Laundry… On Feminism & Domesticity
I have a confession to make… I like doing laundry. There is something very soothing about sorting the clothes, putting the washing on. Then later hanging up the clothes and finally folding it all...
View Article25 Years Anniversary of Enniskillen
Today is 25 years since the IRA bombed a remembrance day parade in the small town of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Eleven people were killed, 63 injured in what would afterwards...
View ArticleRIP Savita Halappanavar – Woman Dies in Ireland After Being Refused a...
Savita Halappanavar, 31 years old, has died in Galway, Ireland, after doctors refused to perform an abortion on her. Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer at Boston Scientific in Galway,...
View ArticleWriter’s Wednesday: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first volume of Maya Angelou’s six volume autobiography. It is the haunting and thought-provoking story of Angelou’s childhood in the American South during the...
View ArticleOn “Jokes” and Domestic Violence
So, the other day on Twitter I came across the following: Then Scarlett Johansson. RT @kkalthani: I really hope Chris Brown dates Serena Williams. — Çelebe ✨ (@Sa_WAITFORIT_ra) February 17, 2013 If...
View ArticleWriter’s Wednesday: The S&M Feminist by Clarisse Thorn
The S&M Feminist: Best Of Clarisse Thorn is an excellent introduction into pro-sex feminism, as well as S&M, polyamory, gender issues and relationships from a feminist point of view. If you’re...
View ArticleWriter’s Wednesday: Forget Yourself by Redfern Jon Barrett
“It is important that you know: I love you. Of course I have no idea who you are. But I have no real idea who I am either, so it seems fair to me.” Forget Yourself by Redfern Jon Barrett is is a...
View ArticleWriter’s Wednesday: Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran is the story of a young woman’s struggle for her identity and to find a place, where she belongs. Moaveni powerfully gives...
View ArticleWomen Shouldn’t Need to be Seen in Relation to Men
Last night I saw and shared the above photo on my Facebook, commenting that women should be respected in their own right, not because of their relationship to a man. This started a bit of a discussion...
View ArticleWriter’s Wednesday: The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy
The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy is a fascinating look at different ways of doing relationships. It doesn’t...
View ArticleEscaping an Emotionally Abusive Relationship
This post was originally published about a year ago on a site called Silence, Cupcake, which has since closed. Therefore I’ve decided to republish the piece here: Have you ever been in a relationship,...
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