Women’s Equality Day
Today is officially Women’s Equality Day in the States – a day to reflect on past inequalities, and to resolve …
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Girls’ GCSEs: all hail the ladybrain
Feminist fistbumps to all those who got their GCSE results yesterday. Ignore everyone moaning about how they used to be …
Gender pay gap: it starts young
According to the Halifax Pocket Money Survey 2011, average pocket money for children has gone up to £6.25 per week …
Seen in London #2
The thinnest mannequins possible. How do they not fall over? Jeans spotted via BoingBoing on GAP’s “Always Skinny” range. If …
UK Feminista Summer School
Sounds brilliant – the tweets and the reports make me wish I could have been there. Guardian article on it …
Blame the mothers
Wandsworth council have raced to win the dubious trophy of being the first council to issue a notice of eviction …
Riot blogaround
The internet is currently debating how to pour petrol onto troubled flames. If you too are sick of reading posts …
Riots: some thoughts
The country was bankrupt following wars abroad. The economic climate was poor, with mass unemployment and rising food prices. The …