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Fuck Women’s Day. FUCK IT.* 8 Aug 2013 | 02:17 pm
Don’t ask me to celebrate Women’s Day. Don’t offer me ten per cent off beauty products or a free glass of cheap bubbly. Don’t even ask me to commemorate the historic women’s march on the Union buildin...
Why I look dazed all the time 2 Aug 2013 | 02:58 am
Dear Goddess, it’s the 1st of August already. The shock led me to tally up this most unreal year so far: Books written/co-written: Three. Two Girl Walks In books as part of Helena S. Paige. One unive...
Dear Lovely Author (truths about marketing you need to know) 17 Jun 2013 | 06:33 pm
This piece was commissioned by Colleen Higgs for Modadji’s Small Publishers’ Catalogue 2013. It’s a must-have resource: you can buy it online, or direct from Colleen at cdhiggs at gmail.com. Dear Lov...
For Carolyn, who taught me to dance. In heels. 7 Apr 2013 | 02:35 am
April is truly the cruellest month. Almost two years ago, on a day of sublime light and stillness, came the news that the poet Stephen Watson had died. The beauty of that day was both salt and balm. T...
The sweetest letter of 2012 5 Feb 2013 | 02:01 am
January was a monster of a month, so much so that I never got to post my usual booky retrospective of 2012. But the year rapidly receding was a doozy, sweet and sour. I had some of the best adventures...
And finally: adios Women’s Month, good riddance, and let’s shove postfeminism too 1 Sep 2012 | 01:31 am
[in which I swear only once] Thank all the heavens August is done and dusted. Women’s Month has been absolutely, stinkingly awful for women – Verashni Pillay hits some of the lowlights here, as does ...
Stop the madness: no more toothless councils on gender-based violence 21 Aug 2012 | 05:05 pm
Dear Minister Lulu Xingwane, I am writing because in the Sunday Times of 12 August, when you were asked what you were doing to support NGOs working with rape survivors, you said you were launching a ...
You can shove “getting in line”, too 21 Aug 2012 | 04:44 pm
Dear Helen Zille, I’ve been wanting to write to you as a follow-up to my Women’s Day roar of rage, but like the rest of the country, I have been too horrified by the Lonmin mine massacre to think str...
Take your Women’s Day and shove it* 9 Aug 2012 | 05:16 am
[Warning: this post contains a lot of bad language and shouting. My parents should stop reading now.] Dear Government (big, small, national and local), Here’s an idea. Take your pathetic, meaningles...
It happens to us all in the end… 5 Jun 2012 | 06:40 am
… that letter from your publisher telling you that a book you wrote is to be “remaindered or pulped”. The stomach does a nasty little wobble and drop, the clouds over the mountain suddenly look grim a...
