Posts Tagged with ‘women’
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Lets go Beyond UK-OK
17 May 2013
Guest Post from Kirsty McAlpine Reproduced with thanks from Women for Independence, via Bella Caledonia. The mission statement for Women for Independence states: "“We will ensure that there will be a space for women’s voices and interests in the campaign. Independence will create opportunities for women to engage in developing …
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Yet Another Fascist Murder in Greece
30 Apr 2013
On the 6th April, a 23 year old woman was brutally beaten in Νέα Μάκρη. She was found collapsed on the road just outside her home with severe head injuries and rushed to the nearby Red Cross Hospital, but such is the condition of healthcare in Greece that there were no …
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A Feminist Awakes
05 Apr 2013
Guest Post from Katherine Smith Dear Andrea Dworkin, I can’t believe I’ve missed you all these years! I’ve just read In Our Blood and it’s transformed my feeling about the world. Very few books can do that. The penny’s dropped; a few jigsaw pieces just fell into place. I’m most …
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Subjects, Objects and the Sex Industry
20 Mar 2013
One of the areas which causes most consternation in feminist circles is the sex industry. Many, particularly women in the industry consider some of the narratives that surround abolitionist discourse insulting, demeaning and ultimately harmful. It is critical to appreciatie that within a situation of pre-existing power relations, the choice - …
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Why the Bedroom Tax is a Women’s Issue
15 Mar 2013
The "Bedroom Tax" - a reduction in housing benefit for those living in social housing who are deemed to have a "spare" bedroom is due to come in next month. Under this new regime, anyone receiving housing benefit will face a cut of 14% if they are considered to have …
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Female: A hetero-masculine discourse?
16 Nov 2012
A previous post on "Social Constructions and Biological Differences", generated quite a bit of discussion, which I found genuinely fascinating, having thought some more about some of the issues in what was quite a fast moving interaction, I wanted to pick up on some of the points made. It took …
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You cant fight Misogyny with Imperialism
11 Sep 2012
I've spent a week in the dark parts of the lefty blogsphere. First I ventured into Socialist Unity - the home of the UK misogynist left, then I got sucked in to Harry's Place - the home of the UK imperialist left. If this is representative of the RoUK left, …
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Socialist Unity: Cesspit of the Left
07 Sep 2012
Those familiar with the state of the UK left will be familiar with the Socialist Unity blog, the cesspit which has taken over from the UKLN email list as the place for old white men to put the world to rights. It must be the most misnamed blog in the …
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Showing Respect for Women’s Voices
24 Aug 2012
Last week, George Galloway, a darling of the English Left, made some pretty unacceptable comments. The general creepy aura that surrounds him when you meet him in person spilled over into the pages of the news paper and he held court on his views around "sexual ettiquette" and requests for "insertion", …
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The Idolatry of Assange
20 Aug 2012
For the first time in the history of my facebook, I've had to do an actual purge. Oh, I've deleted one or two here and there, and watched as others have had to go through the mass delete process: Sheridan and the English Riots stand out as particular prompts, and …
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What is a woman?
15 Aug 2012
"Women, Lesbians and Trans*" I have been fascinated by this description of the feminist movement as defined by the Barcelona feminist indignatos ever since I first heard it. While I was in Barcelona hearing about their intervention within the movement to ensure that women were well represented and their demands …
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Virginity and Violation
14 Aug 2012
Trigger Warning: the entire post talks of state sanctioned rape. The recent changes brought about by the inauguration of the Muslim Brotherhood taking control in Egypt has brought it back to centre stage. Reducing the powers of SCAF and replacing top commanders, it would seem the moves are afoot to …
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Afghan women and Western values
07 Jul 2012
Afghanistan is the world's most dangerous place for women. Following the 2001 invasion by the US and the UK, the UN established the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), control of which was assumed by NATO in 2003. The pretext of the invasion was to find Osama Bin Laden, a comic …
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A Woman’s Place is in the Independence Movement
03 Jun 2012
As the independence debate progresses, it is becoming critical for the left not only to put forward the argument for independence but also to define and influence its nature. Independence is a critical opportunity to look carefully at the kind of country that we want Scotland to be and work …
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The Concentric Circles of the Unmen
15 May 2012
In the Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir states that whenever a woman seeks to act like a human being she is said to be imitating the male. For women are unmen, a lesser class, who in the eyes of the patriarchy fail at being human. She also raises the question …
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November 30th: The women fight back
26 Nov 2011
Earlier this week, the Guardian asked the women of twitter what pissed them off most about the Con-Dem government. It was a testimony to women's ingenuity that so many were able to fit so much into 140 characters. Among the many, many answers given were childcare cuts, attacks on employment …