SAVE Yemen Thoughts on International Women’s Day
A member of SAVE Yemen reflects on the unstable situation in the country and remembers the women of Yemen who will not be celebrating International Women’s Day this year. On March 8, women worldwide will celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. These women celebrate women’s successes and all their political, social and economic [...]
Gifts for an African child- some tough choices
Something happened here on International Women’s Day(IWD). After reading my blog DO THEY KNOW IT IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, the Birds on the Blog were so touched by the plight of girls in the developing world that they decided to sponsor a girl in Ruhanga a remote village in SW Uganda And by the end [...]
Feminism is Cheap News
I watched my first episode of Charlie Brookers’ Newswipe yesterday so I’ll apologise in advance for this rant but I’m very angry. There’s been a rash of news articles and radio programmes about the current state of feminism in the last week or so and it’s beginning to get on my tits. Probably the influence [...]
Do they know it is International Women’s Day?
I don’t know much about the history of International Women’s Day and I must say up until last year I had never so much as given it a second thought. So what happened last year? Well I got an unexpected call from a company called Prowse asking if I would join them and other women [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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