Monday, 18 August 2014

Women of the Left Bank Series Part 4: Djuna Barnes

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Read the rest of the series Part One: Gertrude Stein Part Two: Janet Flanner Part Three: Colette ‘ I was devoted to Djuna and s...
Saturday, 16 August 2014

Think same sex parents are inherently worse than straight ones? Then sorry, but you are homophobic.

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I was really upset to read Kellie Maloney’s comments, reported in Pink News , where she stated that she didn’t believe same-sex couples can ...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014

12 years ago my hair was set on fire. Yesterday I published a Kindle Single short story about it.

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You may remember that earlier this summer, I wrote about the 'die in a fire' meme and what it meant to me, as someone who had her s...
Saturday, 26 July 2014

Greta & Boris: Summer holiday competition!

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It's the start of the summer holidays! Which is exactly the moment when the adventures in my first novel, Greta and Boris: A Daring Re...
Monday, 7 July 2014

Liar. You’re too ugly to be harassed.

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On Saturday night, Caroline Criado-Perez tweeted about hearing men hissing at women on the platform – a kind of street harassment she hadn’...
Tuesday, 17 June 2014

'Go die in a fire" is not just an idle threat - as I know only too well

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Before we start, let’s have a listen to Electrelane covering Bruce Springsteen’s I’m On Fire.  Ahh. Isn’t that something?  OK...
Wednesday, 4 June 2014

The Government's hypocrisy on violence against women, and asylum

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Last night, Afusat Saliu and her daughters were deported back to Nigeria, after Saliu was refused asylum. She needed asylum because her da...