For International Women’s Day, have a weirdly specific feminist rant… A few days ago a sweet man of my acquaintance retweeted something a woman said about whisper networks. He added that he would love it if the women he knew felt able to tell him these things as well, so he could work to reduce […]
Feminism
This is in the beverages section, because getting drunk makes me 1000% louder about my feminist views.
Weight Loss Is Not An Anti-Feminist Act
About two years ago, I decided to lose weight. Nothing unusual in this. I have decided to lose weight about once a year since I’ve been – what? Seven, maybe? I can’t even remember. But this time, rather than launching myself wholeheartedly into a punishing regime (5:2, Cabbage Soup, Slimfast, Atkins… that one I made […]
Christmas Presents For Feminists
I often don’t admit this because I think it’s “shallow” or whatever, but I bloody love shopping. THINGS, new things, new things that are beautiful and useful and mine. I am a product of the capitalist society I exist in and if you keep me in enough pretty notebooks and artisan gin I don’t even […]
Entitlement
When I was about 19, I had to break up with this guy. When I say “break up” I mean “explain that drunkenly snogging at 2am on two consecutive Mondays is not the same as a relationship”. It was early afternoon and we were in our Students’ Union. He started crying, and I was embarrassed, […]
Fat
I’ve always been fat. Sometimes it’s a problem for me, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes I’m bigger than I normally am, sometimes smaller. But one way or another, I haven’t been in my “healthy bmi range” since I was in sixth form, and that was only for about six months. Yeah, that’s right, healthy bmi range. […]
Guilty
Today, I feel guilty. Yesterday I started drinking at lunchtime and didn’t stop until D lured me home with the promise of fried food. This meant I got pretty much no writing done. I don’t work Wednesdays so I can write, which is indulgent, but legitimate, as long as I actually am writing, not drinking […]