Sorry for the mess

There has been a bit of a furore in the UK media over Selina Scott recently. Scott, a veteran news-reader, alleges that Five News went back on their agreement for her to cover Natasha Kaplinsky’s maternity leave. She is now suing for age discrimination. Whether or not her individual case holds water, it certainly highlights [...]

News from Dawn (Pakistani newspaper), brought to my attention by Twisty.
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Balochistan Senator Sardar Israrullah Zehri stunned the upper house on Friday when he defended the recent incident of burying alive three teenage girls and two women in his province, saying it was part of “our tribal custom.”
Senator Bibi Yasmin Shah of the [...]

Persepolis, the film of the excellent graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, is being screened in London with a Q&A session. Details below are from the F word who bought this event was brought to my attention.
SAT 13 Sep, 13.15pm, Hackney & Islington Amnesty Group presents Oscar nominated Persepolis (12A). Artist and novelist Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical [...]

Feminism got me thinking.
I started out feeling frustrated about not being taken seriously. My male friends were usually more interested in how revealing my clothes were than in anything I had to say, and female friends were often wary of competition. My small triumphs were jealously picked apart or dismissed as insignificant. I noticed that [...]