Some quick recommendations
A few people have asked me for poetry and feminism reading recommendations. Here’s some ideas.
Category Archives: Feminism
Who cares about your health?
This week’s column in the Nelson Mail looked at health policy in the context of the election. I was interested in what might affect me as a young, disabled woman Continue Reading →
Great Women
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about inheritance and heritage lately, and asking my family questions about my grandmothers and great grandmothers and what their lives were really like.
Quiet Activism – what is it?
You may have heard me use the term ‘quiet activism’ lately. What does that mean? How am I doing it? Why?
A response from GiggleTV
You might remember a couple of weeks ago I wrote about how “GiggleTV” is offensive, sexist, and supports rape culture. I absolutely stand by this. Today I got a very aggressive response Continue Reading →
On arthritis and diagnosis
Here’s my latest column for the Nelson Mail, ‘My illness finally has a face‘, where I talk about being diagnosed with Ankolysing Spondylitis – inflammatory arthritis in my spine.
Beauty, sex and disability
This is kind of a part two to my previous piece on body image, health, and feminism. In that piece, I started to look at my beliefs about body image, where Continue Reading →
Food, fat and feminism: why eating is another fight
I think about food a lot. I love food. The fact that that feels like a guilty confession is one of the reasons I want to write about this.
Just play nice
I am exceedingly unkind to myself.
A note on politics
My latest column for the Nelson Mail was about women in politics, and the lack of interest in Nelson as a political region.