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The Un-Mother

Four years ago I entered a writing competition on the theme of motherhood, at the time my daughter was 5 months old, and had only…

Men can experiment with makeup and fashion – David Bowie portrait

Boys are taught from a young age that fashion and makeup are a girls domain, that it is taboo for them to want to experiment…

Individuality vs Societal change

“Feminism means not judging women’s choices” “Body positivity means celebrating people loving their bodies” These are positive, uplifting quotes. Based on celebrating and raising up…

Inspiring boys to break the mould

It is very important to me that both my children grow up knowing that they do not have to change who they are, that they…

Language and talking at cross purposes

Language is a funny beast. It’s fascinating, but also rarely straightforward. Online conversation can make for some interesting clashes in language: for example, I used…

Raising a child gender free

I’ve been thinking about this case recently, where an eight month old has been issued a health card which does not mention their sex. The…

Plus Size Male Bloggers

I’m sure you are all aware by now of my series of illustrations of Plus Size Bloggers (if you haven’t please do go take a look).…

Lindy Bop and remembering mum

It’s funny what will push you out of your comfort zone, and I recently found myself prompted into buying a dress that was a little…

Is Wonder Woman privileged?

It might seem strange to apply a real world principle, like privilege, to a fictional character. But I think it can be quite interesting to…

#BeTheBlogger

Yours clothing have now announced the winners of the #BeTheBlogger competition. Head on over there to congratulate the winners! Glow Pink Stah What Laura Loves…

Yours stores, representation and a positive start to 2017

I just want to start by thanking everyone who liked, retweeted and shared my various statuses and tweets on the Yours clothing #BeTheBlogger competition. It…

“That’s a boy thing”

My kids have reached that age. Now the infuriating conversations have started. “Boys do this, girls don’t” “That’s a girls toy” “Girls don’t like that”…

Human Nature

A little while ago I read and amazing book called Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman. I loved it, and highly recommend it. It’s a story…

All bodies are beautiful

She was an ugly duckling at school, teased for being bigger than the others. She wasn’t huge, but kids are cruel. She wanted to model…

#DropThePetite – or why #DropThePlus doesn’t make sense

I interrupt the scheduled interview posts to talk, again, about #DropThePlus. This will be my sixth post on the subject – don’t worry, I’m tired…

The Big Bad Anti-Diet Brigade

This is a subject that comes up a lot within the body positive plus size community, a hell of a lot. And it’s always controversial.…

Returning to work

I’ve been quiet online lately, not done so much drawing, and I just wanted to talk about why. After years of pain I have finally…

Inda Bayi – letting kids be kids

This blog post has now moved to Squeak and Pob.

Non-men: Or women as “Other”

Edited (16/04/16 19:00) I’ve added to this a bit, because I realised some points weren’t as clear as I’d have liked them. I’ve been on…

Bikini Bravery

You’ve probably seen it before, when a plus size woman wears something revealing like a bikini, they are told they are “brave” or “daring”. On…

Iain Duncan Smith has not grown a conscience

I’m actually too annoyed to write properly. Basically everyone is saying things like, “IDS grows a conscience” or “When your budget is too immoral for…

Breastfeeding and Jamie Oliver

Let me just start this post by saying, if I actually manage to write this without it just turning into a string of expletives I’ll…

Favourite Plus Size Outfits: Feb 2016

Last month I drew six of my favourite plus size outfits from January, so now it’s time for some of my favourites from March. As…

“Curvy sexylicious” vs Plus Size

I’ve written before about how important the term “plus size” is, and why dropping it isn’t actually helpful. In fact I last wrote about it…

Plus Size Nudity

Being body positive and being feminist sometimes collide in my head, one of the issues which comes up often is to do with nude bodies.…

I told you so

This is going to be a slightly childish post, I’d apologise but I’m not really sorry. Some of you may have seen my previous posts…

Favourite Plus Size Outfits: Jan 2016

I told you I’d be drawing more plus size bloggers, and so here is the new series. Every month I will be illustrating six of…

#HighlightWomen | Beth Ditto

I’m starting a new weekly series to celebrate inspiring women. I’m starting with the amazing Beth Ditto! I have to confess, I am late to…

16 in ’16

The wonderful Sophie had a fantastic idea to come up with 16 goals for 2016, in her own words. The concept of 16 in ’16…

“You’re obviously not as happy with your body as you make out”

I was going to tweet about this, but realised it would be far too long to fit into even a series of tweets. In a…