I made a thing
Introducing Skeletal Mosaic – A poetry zine by me. Beautiful cover and design by the ever-talented Jem Yoshioka. I am very proud of this little thing, which took several months to create. You Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Feminism
Get out of my uterus
I’ve actually been working on this post for a while, but today’s article about motherhood in the Herald was the final straw. Stop. bloody. asking me. when I’m going to Continue Reading →
The life of a woman
International Women’s Day this year was kind of a shit show. Jess McAllen summed up a few of the reasons why. For me, this story is single most important thing Continue Reading →
Nelson Women’s Centre needs help
Many of you will know by now that I volunteer at the Nelson Women’s Centre. We’re a drop-in safe space which offers social worker support, counselling services, and access to Continue Reading →
The Affliction Fiction
My friend Elle is writing about disability at The Affliction Fiction. She’s super eloquent, informed, and has extremely good things to say about stuff like systemic ableism. She also writes about Continue Reading →
So we protested – what now?
The protests against ROK and misogyny last weekend were so fantastic. I want to know – how do we keep this conversation going?
Roosh did feminism a favour
Bear with me. Here’s some facts. Feminism isn’t mainstream. I might happily convince myself it is, in my lovely liberal left-leaning bubble. I might go days thinking that everyone understands and cares Continue Reading →
Happy Holidays and 2015 review
I’ll be taking a little break from the blog, from now until early January. I wanted to say happy holidays, a huge thank you, and highlight a couple important things Continue Reading →
The Grand Unified Theory of Women’s Pain
‘The pain of women turns them into kittens and rabbits and sunsets and sordid red satin goddesses, pales them and bloodies them and starves them, delivers them to death camps Continue Reading →
“It’s Not Enough”
‘IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO CONSIDER OURSELVES GOOD MEN BECAUSE WE DON’T BASH WOMEN’ – former Police Commissioner Key Lay, on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.