Thursday, 28 February 2013

Just over two weeks to go until the first ever Bristol Women's Literature Festival!

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Join Bidisha, Stella Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Selma Dabbagh, Professor Joan Adim-Addo and more for the first ever Bristol Women’s Literature ...
Monday, 25 February 2013

On the Oscars: How can you be the supporting actress when you're the only actress?

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Riddle me this, Bafta and the Academy. How can you be the supporting actress when you are, in fact, the main actress in a movie?  I ask th...
Thursday, 21 February 2013

I wrote a book

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A couple of years ago, well, rather more than a couple, I started writing a children's book about cats. I entered it into a competition ...
Sunday, 17 February 2013

Anonymity for rape defendants - bad idea in 1975, 2010 and now

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Anonymity for rape defendants is a bad idea that benefits one key group of people – rapists. It was a bad idea in 1975, when it was how rape...
Saturday, 16 February 2013

One Billion Rising, men, feminism and who gets a cookie

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On Thursday, I joined hundreds of thousands – maybe millions – of women across the world in a mass movement to protest violence against wome...
Friday, 15 February 2013

Her name was Reeva Steenkamp: a letter to the Sun

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I'm sending this letter to the editor of The Sun and the PCC regarding the horrible cover on 15th February letters@the-sun.co.uk do...
Sunday, 10 February 2013

I dreamed a dream: thoughts on equal marriage

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When I was eight years old, I learnt about Martin Luther King’s ‘I had a dream’ speech at school. As part of our learning, we were asked to ...