Womanhood does not equal Motherhood (a Doctor Who rant)

*Here be spoilers for the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Read at your own risk if you are a spoilerphobe.* My relationship with Steven Moffat is deeply fraught with contradictions. (For those of you who don’t know, Moffat is the current head writer behind Doctor Who, and also Sherlock. This post focusses on Doctor Who though.) … Continue reading »

The politics of worth

Chally just today posted at her blog, Zero at the Bone (my current favourite blog) about “loving yourself, and the social value of putting yourself down.” I attempted to leave a comment to her excellent and thoughtful discussion, but ended up having to think about what she wrote more deeply, in regards to my own … Continue reading »

Angry Girl

I often have trouble with music and lyrics. I like a song, but the lyrics just annoy me because most songs seem to be about the same things: longing for someone to love you, broken relationships, angst. All that stuff I don’t do. Every now and them I find something that’s simply brilliant. Something I … Continue reading »

Sexism: easier to see if it’s the other way around?

A few weeks ago I was bingeing on YA novels, probably because I was in the middle of exams and wanted to read something that wasn’t a peer-reviewed journal article. I felt like being futuristic, so I found a couple of futuristic ones at the library. Most of them were forgettable, but there were two … Continue reading »

Cake and Crania

A bit of a non-serious post today. I’m feeling slightly intellectually overloaded from my summer human evolution course, trying to get my head around evolutionary sequences and how ambiguous it really all is. So I thought I’d share two pictures and a recipe for nectarine cake, which I made this afternoon off the top of … Continue reading »

Speaking Up (is harder than it sounds)

A few weeks ago at work I found myself in a situation I hate being in: the one where you know you really should say something, call someone out for something, and you don’t. The situation was something like this: I was mopping the fruit shop floor, chatting to one of the women I work … Continue reading »

On asexuality

I have been thinking a lot lately about my identity, particularly my sexuality. As such, this is quite a personal and think-out-loud post. If that’s not your thing, don’t read. It’s actually quite hard and conflicting to write about as well, but I want to contribute to the online community and bank of experiences. My … Continue reading »