At the tender age of 16, without even realising it, I was given my first taste of powerful feminist satire. Judy Syfers’ article (now Judy Brady) ‘Why I Want a Wife’ appeared in the first issue of Ms. Magazine launched in the summer of 1972. The essay is perhaps one of the best-remembered pieces from the […]
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Little Spiral
Sometimes getting back to reality is never the same. Nothing ever seems to be where you left it and nobody’s noticed. The world’s moved forward and you feel left behind. Caught up in a bubble, suspended in time, but now you’ve been popped; burst back into today. It takes a while to adjust and re-mould […]
First Contact
She was by all accounts the perfect stranger. Someone you could watch from a distance, unseen and unnoticed in your attraction and no one was ever the wiser. A perfect figure in the strobe light propped up against the bar, half empty alcopop in hand, chewing on her straw. Not quite the measure of sophistication […]
Abused
She tried to blink, her face still smarting from the blow. Her eyes watered and the warm tears cooled the heat of her cheek. Sara ran her fingers across her face and felt the raised markings of harsh fingertips burning into her. She flinched at the touch and closed her eyes once more. It had […]
"Dreams are built… One brick at a time"
On Saturday my fiancée and I went to satisfy our inner, well let’s face it, our outer geeks at ‘The Art of the Brick®’ Exhibition currently on display at The Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, London. To say that we were excited would be a gross understatement. The pair of us were brimming over […]