by thevagenda
All these clippings are from magazines bought last week. We do not want our future daughters to grow up thinking that this is what being a woman looks like. Do you? aa It all makes for pretty depressing reading, which is why we hope that you will take a look at our book, […]
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Word up. I am a woman. I am not white. So, welcome to some deliberations, courtesy of myself, a non-white woman. Before we begin: I understand that the definer “of colour” is a semantic choice for a lot of people, many of whom employ it to describe themselves. I don’t use the terms “coloured” or […]
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by thevagenda
The other day I was on the train with my baby daughter. The lady next to us was minding her own business looking at pictures of Prince George on his tour of New Zealand in the newspaper. My daughter leaned over and smiled at this lady, which she found charming. My daughter then made a […]
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Image courtesy of Everyday Soiree I’m considering doing something I never do. I’m thinking about going into a Sports Direct shop. Whilst I’m in there I’ll do something I’ve been doing pretty much every 3 hours for the past 6 months: I’ll feed my baby. I’ll feed my baby with my breasts. I know, it […]
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For anyone who ever attended an author’s talk at a public library in the 90’s, you will know that they were typically odd occasions attended by weird and wonderful people wearing socks with sandals, who would be carrying Wilkinson’s carrier bags filled with questionable items like mouse traps and salmon paste. Although I’m not sure […]
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“They have long been known as ‘child-bearing hips’. Now, a new study has revealed that women with wide hips are more likely to have one-night stands and more sexual partners in general.” This is how the Telegraph broke this week’s news that actual scientists are conducting ACTUAL STUDIES into just how much nookie you’re getting […]
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It was about the time that my current housemate told me I was ‘not fit to live with other humans’ that I started thinking about writing this post. FYI, that was a couple of weeks ago. So it’s been stewing in my brain since then, building up a bitter, bitter marinade of rage and retorts […]
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by thevagenda
For as long as I can remember, I’ve preferred older men. My very first crush was on a boy five years my senior in Sunday School (racy stuff), and while my fellow freshers were smooching each other in the Union bar, I was making wistful eyes at the PhD students. Nowadays, at the ripe old […]
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I’m a big fan of Men’s Health magazine – as a woman I do get some funny looks reading it in public, but the exercises and diet tips generally focus on building muscle and fitness, as well as improving performance, albeit with a testosterone focus. So, when I spotted an issue of Women’s Health, I […]
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It’s been a while since I sat down a read a good fairytale. It’s my own fault, really, what with working and the fact that the last book I read my niece involved a bear eating a rabbit in a fit of rage (the rabbit stole his hat, you see, so the moral of […]
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by thevagenda
Last week a male colleague lent me four DVDs. “They’re not exactly to my taste – they’re my sister’s – but I really think you’ll enjoy them,” he said. “Being a woman.” Well, then. “A woman”. This guy’s got me down a tee. I wish IMDb knew me quite so well. A WOMAN. Dude, just […]
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For the first time, I can remember fashions from the first time round, and it’s freaking me out. I know what you’re thinking, older women, and it’s ‘boo-fucking-hoo, little girl. Try having Marie Claire selling the same boiler suit you wore in your twenties to today’s firm-bottomed youngsters when you, the ‘wrong’ side of fifty […]
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