International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
What’s one of the main reasons for suffering caused by violence? In this world of ours, violence is all too common across gender, country, culture, society, age and status – so why should there be a day specifically marked for raising public awareness of and eliminating violence against women? The facts are these: [...]
Do you judge a book by its cover?
I’m not speaking metaphorically in this instance, but literally. Lionel Shriver wrote an article in the Guardian last week about how publishers use book covers as a way of targetting women readers… “With merciful exceptions, my publishers constantly send prospective covers for my books that play to what “women readers” supposedly want. Take the American [...]
Pink Stinks and colour/gender stereotyping
Once upon a time, not so many years ago, but definitely last century, pink wasn’t a girls colour. It wasn’t even a feminine colour. Slowly and gradually an erosion as has taken place and girls have taken pink for themselves. Image via Wikipedia A few years earlier, the Sunday Sentinel had been of the same [...]
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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