Mostly about backing up your stuff, because my USB died DED this week, and despite the fact that I spent long and frustrated hou– mi– er, periods of time installing portable dropbox on it, it failed to sync to the net on Sunday last week, and I’ve lost an entire chapter of The Novel. It […]
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Wow, it’s been forever since I did a link-a-bet. I think maybe not since the blog lived on Blogger! o.O But anyway, tonight: a selection of Things I Have Found. First of all, I am tremendously excited. My writing – I hesitate to say idol, because in my social context that’s a no-no, but
Link-a-Bet Soup ;) Read More »
Found this great project by Cambridge University today on Twitter, via a friend (I forget who, sorry). Basically, they had a bunch of personal-sized whiteboards and asked passers-by (presumably students in the main) why they needed feminism. The results are obvious, shocking, enlightening, and heart-breaking, and seriously, you should go have a look right now.
I Need Feminism Because… Read More »
Dear girls in class, who are currently discussing gender politics: I am so proud of you. As you sit there and realise for perhaps the first time the ways that social constructions of gender restrict us, I can almost feel your hearts and minds being opened. And the fact that, although we are studying women’s rights
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Or, as Liana more appropriately titled it, Don’t Embrace the Boulders. This is a post I could have written, about why you shouldn’t embrace life’s boulders. Go, read it. It’s affirming. LIANA’S WONDERFUL POST – CLICK HERE. Read more:You Will Never Be PrettySo I Changed Careers…Ouch :\
Ten points if you know where that quote comes from 😉 This is something I meant to post a few weeks ago, and I’ve lost all of it now but the fundamental point. Never mind. It’s still worth noting. Society has spent millenia praising and revering the intellect. Man is a creature of reason, we
Man, When Perfected, is the Best of Animals Read More »
You can tell I’ve been reading Sarah Bessey when I want to start all the post titles with ‘In which’… 😉 So, did not end up travelling out to camp after all. In the middle of the night I woke feeling like it probably wasn’t a good idea, and then in the morning I got
In Which Blogs And Babies Are My Church Read More »
I’m being irresponsible tomorrow. I’m ditching the baby and I’m driving (being driven) out to the camp where currently resides my husband, and I’m going because I feel like there is a husband-shaped hole in my chest, even though he’s only been gone a night and a half so far, but I can’t breathe without
In Which I Am Seven Months Old Again Read More »
Sort of as a follow-up to the last post, and because it’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about the last few days, I wanted to make a list of all the things I’ve done/am doing to work towards my manifesto. It’s nice, when things get overwhelmingly BIG, to focus on the small picture sometimes.
And We Shall Change The World (If But Slowly) Read More »
I read a beautiful post on Sarah Bessey’s blog about what was saving her. She invited everyone to participate, and I am late to the party, because I always am what with one thing or another, but here I am at last, and I bear cake. What is saving me is this: wonderful blogs, and
