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Cardiff Feminist Network 30 Nov 2008 | 10:20 am
Mind the Gap is now defunct. For feminism in Cardiff please contact Cardiff Feminist Network on their blog, on twitter, website, and Facebook page. Support would be appreciated.
Required reading 9 Apr 2008 | 10:07 pm
On Prisons, Safety, Borders and Privilege: An Open Letter to White Feminists by Jessica Hoffman (of Make/Shift magazine) In 1983, when I was in kindergarten, white (Jewish) lesbian feminist Adrienne ...
Change is afoot 9 Apr 2008 | 09:03 pm
Well, well. Something odd happened yesterday, the following Google search terms were all higher than ‘Marge Simpson Porn’: patricia hill black feminist thought 11 thing 5 patricia hill collins bi...
New blog in town 7 Apr 2008 | 09:46 pm
I mean ‘in town’ figuratively of course. The new blog is called High On Rebellion, and its owner, Gwen, asked me if she could add Mind The Gap to her blogroll. Since we don’t have a blogroll, I’m link...
Sexism without borders 29 Mar 2008 | 04:03 am
I’ve made the odd post on how I’m annoyed when the entirety of a country’s popular culture gets dismissed as being horribly sexist, or when we even exclaim over one single film, manga or video game. A...
The Triangle Factory Fire 26 Mar 2008 | 08:49 pm
Yesterday was the 97th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire. I didn’t have a chance to blog yesterday, but would recommend this post by Brownfemipower, and the Triangle Factory website she linked ...
The Edible Sylvia Pankhurst 24 Mar 2008 | 11:22 pm
I found this article via Louise Livesey’s F-Word post on it. Louise was annoyed at Peter Tatchell’s dismissal of the current feminist movement, and I think – though I disagree with the way she worded ...
Nicholas Cage invents new olympic sport… 21 Mar 2008 | 01:55 pm
… which consists in punching women rather hard while wearing a bear suit. Okay so I’m a little late on this one, but the Wicker Man remake seems hilariously terrible. Here is a version cut down to t...
Feminism, history and language 17 Mar 2008 | 03:50 am
There are many reasons why history is important for feminism. The one that’s most often mentioned is that we need to know where our rights come from, and we need to be grateful to people who came befo...
Carnival Time 15 Mar 2008 | 09:23 am
The 55th Carnival of Feminists is up at Penny Red.
