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Posted in Personal, Web Stuff, Work, Writing on Oct 12th, 2011
At the Tweet Treats launch, Twitter kept popping up in conversation. It being a book created through Twitter – it’s a cute stocking-stuffer with 140-character recipes from celebrity Tweeters, profits going to charity – that perhaps wasn’t surprising. Perhaps more surprising was the mix of attitudes towards it (in between wishing people had name-tags with [...]
Posted in Domestic, Economics, Family, Parenting, Personal, Rants, Travel, Work on Aug 9th, 2011
Type emigration into google and hit images… guess whose pictures come up en masse? Oh hell yeah, the Irish, a fantastic group of prematourists. We’re very good at it, and I for one am delighted to say Yes I can! This year’s Christmas card will feature my good self stood in front of a threadbare [...]
“Cunt”. That’s what I was called recently in my workplace by a member of the public. The full phrase used was ‘snotty little cunt’, delivered in a healthcare reception area in front of a colleague and another patient. I tried to laugh it off, but the experience left me shocked and humiliated. Now I’m no [...]
Posted in Economics, Family, Feminism, Parenting, Society, Work on Jun 1st, 2011
I started writing a comment on the highly thought-provoking guest post by Anna-Lena Dubé Fuller, ‘Women in the Media – Not’ and Motherhood v Careers, but it began to balloon, veer, swoop, and all sorts of other alarming things, so I decided to make it a post all of its own. The discussion in the [...]
I had a meeting last week with some people involved in adult education. As a writer who counts teaching creative writing as one of her jobs, it’s an area that I hover at the fringes of. On the one hand, yes, I teach adults (some of the time) – they are evening classes; they are [...]
Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting, Rants, Women, Work on May 24th, 2011
This is a small rant, or maybe it’s not really a rant but an appeal. I was at the recent National Women’s Council of Ireland meeting titled ‘Women in the Media, Not’ and it was generally brilliant. There was an initiative to encourage radio and television producers to air more women, including an innovative list [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Books, Media, Reviews, Women, Work, Writing on Apr 28th, 2011
A few weeks ago I met a delegation of Swedish journalists on a visit to Dublin. Fresh from a visit to the Irish Times offices, they remarked on the fact that there seemed to be very few women in the newsroom. They pointed out that in Sweden, men and women are so evenly distributed across [...]
I was fascinated by this collection of photos. Writers at their work stations; creating, pondering, posing and working. The creative process in others has always held my interest, no matter the art. I am a terrible cook, but love to sit, glass of wine in hand, and watch my husband create magic in the kitchen [...]
Posted in Economics, Feminism, International, Ireland, Travel, Work on Apr 8th, 2011
According to the UN Global Report on Women in Tourism the tourism sector, one of the most significant generators of wealth and employment globally, is also credited with providing valuable income-generation and career opportunities for women. In contrast with other sectors women are almost twice as likely hold positions as employers in tourism and the leadership possibilities span [...]
Posted in Feminism, Guest Posters, Nightlife, Personal, Rants, Sex, Society, Theatre, Women, Work on Apr 1st, 2011
Feminism and the art of burlesque have traditionally had a complex relationship. It is empowering? Degrading? Subversive? Creative? Clichéd? Pandering to the male gaze? Subverting that gaze? Here feminist and burlesque fan and performer Ciara O’Connor gives her view. The word “burlesque” has cropped up in polite conversation quite a lot recently. Christina and Cher’s [...]
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