For this latest instalment in my Women Who Inspire Me series, I’m going to focus on someone amazing, contemporary and still working. So far all the women in this series have been deceased (Plath, Lorde, O’Keefe) or fairly elderly…
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So far in my “Women Who Inspire Me” series, I’ve had two writers, an artist, and a judge. Now I’m going to add in yet another writer and activist. I’ve not really spread my candidates out by professional field,…
Is it just me or has feminism felt really zeitgeisty this year? From the massive (and well-deserved) reception that The Handmaid’s Tale received to TopShop selling female revolution shirts, feminism has been reclaimed by cool girls. And I’m in…
When I first started this series in late 2017, I wasn’t sure how long it would be able to go on. Then I made a list of all the women that I find inspirational and it turns out that…
I can probably count using my fingers the number of women we *vaguely* learned about in primary school growing up. (Elizabeth I, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank immediately spring to mind). Middle school and high school are only…
The first installation in my “Women who Inspire Me” series, Joan Didion was also a writer. If you’d like to catch up on that first post, you can find it here. So today, somewhat thematically, I’m going to stick…
This year I decided to do something a little bit different with my gift guide post. I don’t often do gift guides and those I see on the internet don’t often feel very me. This year’s first (and maybe…
This is a new blog series that I’m going to be undertaking. And the title is fairly self-explanatory: women who inspire me. My best friend mentioned that she thought it would be a fascinating and somewhat useful read to…