A feminist guide to beauty and aesthetics
Last year I cured my stress related female baldness using castor oil and a shampoo designed for horses. It’s called Mane N Tail. As I smoothed out the gummy strands it struck me like an acidic splash...
View ArticlePatriarchy, we need to talk about vulval itching
I am writing this while pissing Samurai swords. When not pissing swords I’m managing to piss shards of broken mirror, whole arrows complete with tips and ends, crumbled chunks of pebbledash and the...
View ArticleWhen free universal healthcare isn't free and isn't universal: a case study...
As the term of the current Millennium Development Goals reaches an end in 2015, healthcare workers and reporters worldwide are assessing the efficacy of different global health and development...
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Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices of London, out December 15th 2014
Asylum and Exile, my 5th book,out December 15th 2014I am delighted to trail ahead to the 15th December release of my fifth book, Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices of London (Seagull Books/Chicago...
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Photos for 2014
In advance of the 15th December 2014 publication of my 5th book, Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices of London, here for press purposes are some lovely but low res, personal, inappropriately casual and...
View ArticlePatriarchy, we need to talk about vulval itching
Inspired by Jeanette Winterson’s Guardian article, Can You Stop The Menopause?I am writing this while pissing Samurai swords. When not pissing swords I’m managing to piss shards of broken mirror, whole...
View ArticleMen who rent and use women: film premiere of Honest Lies and debate about...
Off the back of my discovery of the brilliant sites The Prostitution Experience and The Invisible Men, which put the responsibility, questions and scrutiny back on men who think it's okay to buy...
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Author photos 2014
Please find below some casual, low resolution, pretty frivolous, probably not fit for purpose photos to accompany the publication of Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices of London in december. All the...
View ArticleMen who rent and use women: film premiere of Honest Lies and debate about...
Off the back of my discovery of the brilliant sites The Prostitution Experience and The Invisible Men, which put the responsibility, questions and scrutiny back on men who think it's okay to buy...
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Author photos 2014
Please find below some casual, low resolution, obviously taken by friends, probably not fit for purpose photos to accompany the publication of Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices of London in December. All...
View ArticleMen who rent and use women: film premiere of Honest Lies and debate about...
Off the back of my discovery of the brilliant sites The Prostitution Experience and The Invisible Men, which put the responsibility, questions and scrutiny back on men who think it's okay to buy...
View ArticleMoment of Curfew
One of my fractions: new fragmented fiction.At eleven the night city would tense and hush, would flinch silently for a moment. Then the low groan of the curfew siren looped wide, lassoing the skyline....
View ArticleThose Castles
One of my fractions: new fragmented fiction.Those castles were only beautiful from a distance. To a warden tailing above or a courier steering their slicer bike on the ochre track, the blood-veined...
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I know we women are all supposed to have hysteria as standard but I think you...
Last winter a group of young feminists at The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, founded HYSTERIA, a periodical aiming to bring unheard voices into feminist debates. The...
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Health, work, dignity, livelihood: 52 Weeks project by Gulf Labor group...
Gulf Labor is a coalition of artists and activists who have been working since 2011 to highlight the coercive recruitment, and unjust living and working conditions of migrant laborers in Abu Dhabi’s...
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China Flash: Two Chinese Characters
“Publishing a book was a big thing, an extraordinary thing for me. I’ve been overwhelmed that it’s been successful,” says the Chinese journalist who wrote about growing up during the Cultural...
View ArticleChina Flash: Hair envy
My friend Peaches’s hair was so beautiful that, having her photograph taken for a college art project at eighteen, the photographer commented, “Your hair must be the envy of horses everywhere.” Her...
View ArticleChina Flash: Beijing storms, turtles and dogs
The thirty year old tree was uprooted, a raw ball of soil and naked noodle roots winched up above street level, a metal spiked fence sagging under the trunk. A group of workmen had cordoned it off and...
View ArticleChina Flash: Porcelain dolls, bad Samaritans and the law
“You cunt, you cunt, you cunt, you fucking cunt, you stupid cunt cunt cunt cunt.”We’re in the Russian quarter of Beijing, close by the stone walkways, pagodas and manicured firs of Ritan Park. The shop...
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China Flash: Even afternoon tea says something about modern, monetised Beijng
Afternoon tea at The Opposite House, in association with Jo MaloneFinally, an afternoon tea that smells as good as it looks. Opposite House, the chic Sanlitun hotel, is launching a month long...
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