A tale of insidious sexism
So there was this guy on Twitter the other day who was saying he wanted to help professional women in a male-dominated industry set up a support group for themselves. When it was pointed out that the...
View ArticleBook project is online!
For the last year or so, I’ve been blogging here irregularly about my project based on stories of the Québecois branch of my family. I’m very excited to announce that this project has recently been...
View ArticleThe Problem with Magazines
In a pub bathroom the other day, I saw a poster ad for Cosmopolitan magazine. For some reason it struck me as particularly offensive – even more so than the coverlines of mainstream magazines usually...
View ArticleThings I could tell you
I could tell you how we dated for a few weeks and how he treated me a bit shabbily towards the end. I could explain that we have lots of mutual friends so we ended up at the same party one night. I...
View ArticleFrom the Bible’s cutting-room floor: Lilith
Lilith was Adam’s first wife. This is part of her story. Adam and Lilith never found peace together; for when he wished to lie with her, she took offence at the recumbent posture he demanded. ‘Why must...
View ArticleThe Internet, Feminism and Men
Whenever some misogynist-trolling-of-intelligent-woman scandal has exploded in the (anti‑)feminist webosphere over the last decade or so (ie since I started tapping into it), I’ve seen countless...
View ArticleNew Project: Women of Genesis
The Book of Genesis is the first book of all Christian Bibles and of the Torah. It is the story of how some of the ancient Semitic peoples became Jewish. Throughout the book, the god of the Hebrews...
View ArticleFrom the bible’s cutting room floor: The Gospel According to Mary
This is part of a gospel, which is not included in the final edit of the bible, attributed to Mary of Magdalene. 1. When Mary had said this, she fell silent, since it was to this point that the Saviour...
View ArticleI Had an Article Published
It’s about SlutWalk and the sexual oppression of women. It’s published on We Matter Media and it goes like this: Apparently women who like to have a lot of sex want to be able to be called sluts and...
View ArticleTriggered
A few weeks ago I tweeted a link to an old blog post of mine, the one about the after effects of having been physically assaulted several years ago. I broadcast it again, over a year after I first...
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