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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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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.…

#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…

Female Friendships

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, trying to decide whether to write about it or not, and last night I read an article…

I will not hide my lumps and bumps

This was originally a rant in a private group, but fuck it, I think it needs saying publicly. This is aimed at certain types of…

Mental health and male privilege

This tweet popped up on my timeline, I was busy at the time, so I didn’t see the context or know about any twitter storm.…

#GE2015, #greenwhitepurple and the women’s vote

If you’ve been living in a cave and have somehow missed it all, today is the UK General Election, so I went out and cast…

MoG’s April Recap

Looks like I’ve been busy this April, so thought I’d do a little recap. I’ve mostly been talking Plus Size it seems.

Not only #WeAreTheThey, we are also people not animals

Since Plus Size Wars has been on I’ve seen a few idiots people comparing plus size girls and women to pets. The two instances that…

Sisterhood thanks to #PlusSizeWars and #WeAreTheThey

The last few days have been incredible, and quite emotional. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and will always treasure having been there for…

The Diet Industry and triggers

I have to admit, this is a post about a specific conversation. But it got me thinking, and it got me thinking about something that…

Being stalked – a follow up

I wrote that post about Jamie Dornan yesterday in a rage, and with little time to do so. Then as the day wore on and…

Being stalked doesn’t feel “kind of exciting”

I read something today which made me angry, turns out that in preparation for his role in The Fall, Jamie Dornan.. actually.. let me tell…

The Real Wonder Women

I’m a total geek, and especially love comics. So for a feminist geek there really is just one character who stands above all others –…

Feminist Love In

This project will be for women who, whether they ID as feminist or not, have done things which benefit or celebrate women. This is a…

Listening is a valuable skill

This isn’t about one thing in particular, more a variety of things with one thing in common. Not listening. I was always taught growing up…

#GirlsMatter I’m proud to be an ex girl guide

A lifetime ago I was a Brownie and then a Girl Guide, and I loved it. I’ve spoken before about never quite feeling like I…

A 2014 recap: Puking, parenting, pain and feminism

It has been an interesting year, thought I’d go through it with some blog posts. Started the year puking, while technically this is a post…

Being an angry woman – and why it scares me

Thanks to my gender I’ve known from a very young age that the expectations for me were radically different than the expectations for a child born…

Rapists aren’t cartoon villains

If you haven’t watched it yet I strongly advise you to watch the latest Feminist Frequency video on Women as Background Decoration. One of the…

Finding a place and sense of worth in feminism

When I was younger I was a bit of an awkward girl, I was never into the girlie girlie stuff, but at the same time…

Magical vaginas

I have to confess, I got far too much pleasure from writing that title. In case you’ve missed it a quick recap. A female games…

“Look at her, how dare she let us look at her!”

I’ve just taken a break from playing my recent Steam/GOG purchases and stopped clock watching for the new flash deals to write about sexism and…

Yes All Women

I have a love/hate relationship with the #YesAllWomen hashtag. I love that it’s raising awareness, but I hate that it needs to exist at all.…

“But I’m a nice guy”

Very short post as I know there are others out there who can make these points much more eloquently than I can, but this has…