Some thoughts on shouting at women on the web...
Until now, I haven't really 'done' twitter or blogging.... that whole thing of constantly reading updates and responding with lightning speed, while juggling that with other writing and teaching and...
View Article''The greatest crime in Auschwitz was to be pregnant''
[1]This week, I learned about Gisela Pearl. She was a Jewish-Hungarian doctor who worked in Aushwitz and performed secret abortions to protect women from Nazi "experimentation" and death.The policy on...
View ArticleAmina Tyler
It's a bit sad, really... one woman goes partly naked on her own Facebook page and the world goes nuts. Mainstream culture - both “east” and “west” - seems not to know how to react when girl reveals...
View ArticleMy nephew, the volunteer
22nd May, 2013, London. Two men behead a British soldier in Woolwich. They shout ‘god is great’ in Arabic. They were Muslim converts who had contacts in the banned UK organisation Al Mujaharoun and the...
View ArticleThe Joys of Orbiting Pluto
''The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music."- Sun-Ra (Jazz musician, 1914-1994)Uproar over the niqab continues and a just few days ago an eighteen year old...
View ArticleIt's the pay gap that's 'vulgar', not talking about it
In March 2015 the Women’s Equality Party was founded to push “for equal representation in politics, business, industry and throughout working life”, after what I would call the failure of mainstream...
View ArticleVive le technicolor.
What Daesh call the ‘greyzone’ is the world at its best.Surely there is nothing left to say. Or maybe there is but by someone else. In the words of Philip Levine ‘[t]here is more to be said,/ but by...
View ArticleWhen I see bombs
Today is National Poetry Day, and I did try to write a poem (honest!) but wrote this instead. It’s a prose poem, I guess. It may be helpful to know that this is about losing my nephew. He died aged 26...
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