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As I was walking into work at Royal Holloway University this morning, I noticed a ghostly figure in Edwardian garb enthusiastically throwing red paint at the statue of Queen Vic in the North Quadrangle. On closer inspection, I recognised the distinctive features of Emily Wilding Davison, the militant suffragette who was killed trying […]
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I actually got off pretty lightly during pregnancy. Sure, I had terrible morning sickness – or, as I became fond of calling it, ‘all fucking day sickness’. Sure, I developed stretch marks that looked like somebody had tipped a bowl of purple spaghetti over me (not just on my stomach, on my boobs […]
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Somewhere out there lurks the great big garbage pile of sexism. Can you smell it? Or maybe it’s easier to hear: rubbish scattered across comment sections or bowling like leery tumbleweed along the streets. I enjoy blogs like The Vagenda for their unpacking, unpicking or otherwise tearing apart of examples plucked from this (very) figurative […]
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The world is full of tough decisions – and hey, I’m a choice feminist, so I’m not gonna make them for you. But, y’know, I have no qualms in telling you what not to do. So, in case you needed a little guidance this week, I’ve summarised 15 bad choices you could make […]
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I lost my virginity in 1998, to a boy called Adrian in Gran Canaria (well, to be perfectly honest, there was another incident a few years before – but I’m pretty sure there was no actual penetration that time round, so I only mention it here for the sake of integrity). It’s now […]
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