IS FIFTY YEARS OLD (last week)
Whoops I missed a day or two.... (if you'll excuse the pun)
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My cat, Ms Emmeline Pankhurst
Here she's dressed up as the first female aviator Amy Johnson (1903-1941). Isn't the resemblance startling?
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Review of Luke Roberts, Living in History (Edinburgh, 2024) - My review of Luke Roberts’s *Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979*, is now up on the *Review of English Studies *website. More information a...
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readings in Edinburgh (6th Nov) and Liverpool (10th) - Two readings this week: Wednesday 6th November Vespers #31 Hannah Lavery, Tessa Berring, Nat Raha Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh ...5 years ago
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New book - get it here *Our Death* by Sean Bonney A reckless voyage into the apocalypse against which we hurl ourselves night after night, entirely political and thu...
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hurtface (after Ceravolo) - i come home late like a man like a stranger // zebra-headed & foreign & sit down at the table to write poems cos i want to put my key in the door & keen ...10 years ago
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Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
But no...they're models! Get the intellectual look quick and easy: plait your hair and wear it on your head. I sometimes do this when I'm going book shopping.
Annie Hall (1977)
Feminist Fashion (A Cult Film)
Hannah Cullwick (1833-1909)
Feminist Fashionista
It should have been you Hillary!
I love you Hillary Clinton
Germaine Greer (1939-)
Author of the 'Female Eunuch'. Brought the second-wave feminist movement to the UK.
Helene Cixous (1937-)
Feminist philosopher of 'female economy', 'female writing'
Angela Davis (b.1944)
Originally a civil rights activitst and Black Panther associate, now a professor, gay rights activist, anti-racist campaigner and feminist.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005)
Radical Feminist. Campaigned against pornography.
Valerie Solanas (1936-1988)
The woman who shot Andy Warhol, but more importantly the author of the Scum Manifesto
Betty Friedan (1921-1960)
Started the second-wave feminist movement in the USA. The author of 'The Feminine Mystique'
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
Author of 'The Second Sex'. Novelist, philosopher, lover.
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)
Militant Suffragette.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Author of 'A Vindication on the Rights of Woman'. Mother to Mary Shelly. Died in childbirth.
Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
Catholic Saint burnt at the stake for being a woman. Refused to take off her 'male' clothing. Wielded a sword for France. Cut her hair. That sort of thing.
Queen Boudica (d.60/61 AD)
Queen of the Iceni tribe (UK). Led an army against the Roman Empire which killed 10,000 Romans in London!
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