I hate men?

As International Women's Day approaches I notice my screen browsing becoming littered with polarised words/statements like 'feminazi' and "I hate men". The latter in response to the use of sexual violence in domestic and war situations, the former as part of some reaction to feminism. My son rolls his eyes tediously at people who post …

There Are No Monsters

There Are No Monsters No-one wants to admit he went too far or wants to imagine for even a second he could inhabit the body of the monsters he conjured up when his old girlfriends talked flatly of ex-boyfriends and the crux of it the monster man who ridiculed them shoved them strangled them ignored …

Nina Simone- The time is now

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN6ORGuNh68

Qualified to live among your dead

You will have to take my word for it his selective senses tuned for sweetness alone I am offered a cafeteria marriage on a beige tray marred by an old dishrag I am served an institutional meal boiled within an inch of its life I am served a conditional contract to clip my wings suffocate …

Wrestling the Angel- Sophia Blackwell courtesy of Laurie Penny

Wrestling the Angel In every woman’s house there lives an angel. They hear her white robes whisper on their stairs. She smothers life and lust in clouds of household dust and chokes impassioned songs with rationed prayers. In every woman’s throat her wings are beating. There’s really just one thing a girl can do. Take …