Category Archives: Feminism
Dear Great Granddaughter
Dear little one, Great Granddaughter of mine. I sometimes gaze at you and catch the twinkling eyeballs your Great Granddad passed on to our daughter, Ramona – peepers that have been handed down from skull to skull through the ages- … Continue reading
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Blog Link Up for International Women’s Day
One evening this week my husband asked me if I was glad I was a woman. We had a bit of a conversation about whether we’d like to be another gender and both concluded that we wouldn’t. I suspect you … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, blog, blog hop, blogger, blogs, international women's day, Link Up, linky
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International Women’s Day Blog Link Up announcement
International Women’s Day is coming up and I thought it would be grand to host a blog link up of all your thoughts on womanhood and equality! I am ALL ABOUT this annual day to celebrate the momentous strides that … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, blog, bloggers, hop, intenational, iwd, link, linky, up, women's day
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Editing my daughter’s life chances (er, or her Fairy Tales at least)
I joked once about how we have changed the words to “This Little Piggy went to market” – creating a more liberal, less Capitalist version. We did that with vegetarian tongue firmly in hippy cheek but as Ramona grows older … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, feminist, feminister motherhood, nursery rhymes, Parenting
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Boobs are brilliant, but not news
Honestly, I LOVE breasts. Did you know, when you are breastfeeding, MILK comes out of them? OMG. That is like some kind of magic. And then, as if that is not like Mind= Blown enough for you, this other incredible … Continue reading
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Tagged boobs, breast, campaign, craft, craftivists, cross stitch, no more page 3, nomorepage3, the sun
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Retro Razors – on shaving, not shaving and thrifty beauty
Let’s talk about hair. Hairy coarse hair on women; on legs, pits and bits. I veer from being COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY AND ANGRILY ANTI shaving – why in the world would we do it? It was an invention by those … Continue reading
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Tagged arm pits, feminism, hairy, legs, not shaving, razors, retro razor, shaving, thrifty beauty
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