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Posted in Anti-Heroines, International, Politics, Society, Women on Oct 8th, 2011
How wonderful to hear that the Nobel Committee has awarded the 2011 Peace Prize to three women who have made a huge contribution to improving conditions in their home countries and furthering the cause of women there and all over the world. In a press release the Norwegian Nobel Committee explained that it had “decided [...]
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 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 Anti-heroes, Anti-Heroines, Body image, Education, Feminism, Ireland, LGBTQ Issues, Media, Personal, Politics, Sport, Women on Aug 12th, 2011
“I DON’T KNOW which of us is worse off,” said my aunt. She felt growing up that she had no choice but to marry and have children. “But I look at you and my girls and you have so many choices that it must be difficult to make one and not feel you are missing [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Fashion, Politics on Jul 11th, 2011
You know what I love most about uniforms? The way they instantly bolster a person’s moral and ethical capacities. The way they make professionals out of pigs. The way they elevate us above the dribbling masses. Think about all of the fabulous uniformed brigades of awesome paragons we’ve had down through the years. Fascists, for [...]
Posted in Body image, Feminism, International, Politics, Sex, Women on Jul 8th, 2011
I was visiting friends a few weeks ago, and it turned out that I’d be there for the Manchester Slutwalk. They were going, with some other people, so I decided to join them. (I even made a placard). If you’ve had your feminist-news antennae switched on lately, you probably know what Slutwalk is (Wikipedia article [...]
During the General Election campaign I asked some members and supporters of the People Before Profit Alliance who were part of the United Left Alliance about their movement’s policies on matters like abortion, disability rights and improving equality legislation. I was told that there were no policies on these issues and that the platform was [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, International, LGBTQ Issues, Politics, Women on Jun 15th, 2011
What was a more productive issue for the western blogosphere to focus its attention on right now? A fictional Syrian lesbian, or real live Syrians – queer or otherwise – who are being persecuted for their courage in demanding freedom for their country? Tom MacMaster, creator of the Gay Girl In Damascus blog, reckoned it [...]
Posted in Feminism, Food, International, Men, Personal, Politics, Women on May 30th, 2011
Fresh from having to buy his own Guinness in Moneygall (didn’t we learn from Primary Colours that elected officials never carry their money?), the Obamas have now been subjected to the Great British Barbecue. The name in itself is bothersome because to an American, a ‘barbecue’ is a deep South tradition involving whole chickens, racks [...]
Posted in Domestic, Family, Guest Posters, History, Ireland, News, Parenting, Personal, Politics on May 23rd, 2011
All the talk of Obama’s visit to Ireland today, brings me back to the evening of his inauguration, January 20th 2009, when Himself came home to find me on the kitchen floor. On my knees. Surrounded by the usual mish-mash of baby changing paraphernalia – sudocreme, wipes, tiny nappies and – ahem – masking tape. SKY [...]
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