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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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.…

“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…

Can I pull off a crop top?

Can I? Yes. I can. In case you’ve missed it, Oprah Magazine ran an advice column where a reader asked if she could “pull off…

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…

#DropThePlus and our daughters

Sorry to be repetitive, but I’ve been reading more on the #DropThePlus campaign and it got me thinking. Lovely as Ajay is, I’m sorry to…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

Disability and female weakness

Quick recap for anyone who hasn’t read my blog previously, I suffer from a chronic pain problem which has left me severely limited. Before the…

Am I a “mummy blogger”?

This blog has been sat empty for a while, I keep meaning to post, but then I never know what to start with. So the…