It’s almost Halloween. That means gorging on candy and gorging on gore, ergo, a marathon of horror movies. It has often been said that female horror characters are a bit – for want of a better word – sucky. But that doesn’t mean they all play to the stereotype of the damsel in distress. Here […]
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Hey feminist! Join the uproar.
A fellow LadyFace told me about this wonderful web space a few days ago. Lately, we’ve all been needing something to make us smile, and seeing a load of artists lending their talents to a great cause certainly does it for me. The UpRoar is a place filled with protest signs that are beautiful, powerful, witty, gritty and, of course, straight up nasty. Go take […]
America taught me to dream
This time eight years ago I had just got back from exploring the East to the West coast of America on an Amtrak train. I was there in the midst of Obama fever, I met a nation that was progressive and open-hearted, and on that monumental election day eight years ago, the world saw what I had seen. This […]
The Monday Muse. Stuffed Hen.
Stuffed Hen. I have reached the age where weddings and babies are a common occurrence amongst my friends, and so for the second time this year I find myself organising a ‘hen do’. Whilst emailing prospective ‘hens’ my brain started to whirl and wonder, why the hell am I referred to as a ‘hen’? The […]