From my Huffington Post blog. It’s taken me a while to digest George Osborne’s announcement in the Autumn Statement. The government decided to put the £15m tax raised from putting VAT on tampons and sanitary products towards funding women’s shelters and refuges. Groups like Sisters Uncut have been campaigning heavily and quite rightly for better … Continue reading
Whether you’ve realised it or not we’re changing the way we write history. In years gone by our history books were written by the wealthy and elite. The lives of everyday people where seen through a periscope of privilege, with glimpses of ordinary lives seen only through letters or a second hand perspective. In … Continue reading
What on earth is the “tampon tax”? The phrase actually refers to luxury taxation the government puts on items they don’t see as essential. Items that are considered essential (therefore exempt from additional tax) are things like; incontinence pads, medical products, razors and children’s nappies. I’m nodding at these and thinking good. Perhaps razors aren’t … Continue reading
This is a blog I wrote for Fourth Wave Feminists – you can find out more about them here: http://www.fourthwave.co.uk/ Residing in modern London you would be forgiven for thinking that we’re now living in an equal, sexism / misogyny free society. Nearly 100 years behind us are votes for women, birth control rights and just … Continue reading
I got dressed in some extremely sensible clothes for a walk the other day and the BF told me I looked like a ‘mum’. I gave him a confused look and said “what my mum?” “Nope” he said “just a Mum”. I was reassured this was a compliment to my practical approach to our day … Continue reading
The F word has been in the news a lot again and recently someone told me that maybe fat shaming someone might be a good way to help them lose weight. And this isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In a culture that often confuses expressing opinion with bulling, I think this is a … Continue reading
I was talking to a historical economist at Cambridge University the other day. Yeah sure as you do. And she told me that supermarkets have set women free. That if we’re to talk about feminism and women’s rights then the invention of the supermarket is as important as suffrage. I was taken aback, really Tesco? … Continue reading
Embracing wild time from step one
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