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Posted in All About My Mother, Anti-Heroines, Blast From the Past, Family, Feminism, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, Women on Sep 30th, 2011
A note from the editors: This is the first in a new regular series of posts, All About My Mother, in which Anti-room writers reflect on the women who made them the women they are today. Some are their own biological mothers, some are not. But all are important. This month my mum turned 70. [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Books, Economics, Environment, Feminism, Film, International, Politics, Society, Women on Sep 29th, 2011
Perhaps the most distressing statistic emerging from the current economic crisis is that the suicide rate in Greece is reported by the Wall Street Journal to have risen by at least 40%. The Greek collapse is described as a financial catastrophe of their own making but with soaring unemployment, harsh cuts to education and healthcare budgets and [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting on Sep 28th, 2011
My introduction to motherhood was drastically different to what I expected, imagined and dreamed of whilst pregnant. I was always fairly easy going about my pregnancy, with a hope for a more natural birth but a realistic understanding that I might want to be pumped full of pain-killers if I needed to. The one thing [...]
Posted in Anti Room Film Club on Sep 28th, 2011
Many thanks to everyone who came along to watch Kind Hearts and Coronets last night. Our next club is on Wednesday, October 26th at the Workman’s Club… but what to watch? Is there a film you’d love to watch in big room, with lots of people over a drink? Would you like something old and [...]
Posted in Advertising, Men, Sex, Society, Television, Women on Sep 28th, 2011
It’s as predictable as politicians’ bluster and as productive as a cadaver, and it rears its indignant head whenever a woman complains about sexism in advertisement. It’s the “Men Are Victims Too!” counter-argument, and its generally unleashed so hot on the heels of the original that it might as well be a full stop. Its [...]
Posted in Art & Culture, Nightlife, Reviews, Theatre on Sep 27th, 2011
Back in 1997 actor Charlotte Jones, tired of sitting by a silent phone and frustrated by the lack of decent roles for women, took matters into her own hands and wrote her first play. The result was Airswimming, a dark yet heart-warming two-hander drama based on an historical snippet that she had once stumbled upon; “A Miss Kitson and [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Politics on Sep 27th, 2011
Kate Bopp asks whether the election is turning into a farce… I often wonder if it is uniquely Irish or do all nations have chronic hypocrisy threaded through their tapestry of inhabitants? I only experience this secret language of say-one-thing-while-meaning-something-completely-different when I am at home in my native Ireland. Sometimes it is hilariously funny, other [...]
Posted in Humour, Music, Parenting, Personal on Sep 26th, 2011
Last week was the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’, which I mostly celebrated by not feeling a need to wear all my dad’s clothes at once or thrash around my bedroom in a hormonal rage. I did listen to it, though, just to see what it sounds like now. The lyrics seem a little confusing, [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Personal, Writing on Sep 26th, 2011
It’s 3.30am and I’m standing with my face pressed against the kitchen window. I don’t know why I’m drawn to stare out into the dark, maybe because it seems to answer back. Next door, someone’s watching TV, their window blind flickers in shades of grey: ash, then slate, and back. The big spruce blocks the [...]
Sarah Flotel hosts the football video podcast Hot Scores. Recently she was invited to be a guest on Stan Collymore’s Sunday Talksport to discuss women in football and sexism. Here’s her take: This is a Jamie Oliver style, bish-bash-bosh fast, but good food blog entry in response to some of the points raised recently on [...]
