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Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

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Iranian Women’s Rights

October 21, 2019 No Comments

An improvement: Iranian women will be able to officially enter a soccer stadium on Thursday for the first time in nearly 40 years to watch Iran’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cambodia, a historic feat after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial male-only policy. Still, only 5% of tickets were allocated to […]

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Desegregation in Iran (just a bit)

July 5, 2018 No Comments

For the first time since 1979, women in Iran are allowed to attend a men’s game in a stadium with a mixed crowd. For nearly 40 years, half of Iran’s population was not allowed to go to a stadium to watch soccer, the country’s single most popular sport. The defacto ban, instilled by religious clerics […]

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Suppression of anger

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 No Comments

Helen Blackman on how ‘policed’ the simple need to sound off every now and then can be. Well worth a read: Sometimes I get annoyed. I get angry. I rant. I do things that would be normal in a man. In a woman? Oh no. That’s undignified. It’s shrewish. It’s strident. It’s outspoken. It’s hysterical […]

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Finding Out Annual, 1979: “All women wanted was the right to vote…”

November 8, 2016 No Comments

Fascinating little snippet from the Finding Out Annual 1979. Whoever wrote this was fairly feminist – “left to slave in their homes”! Right on!

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Daily Express: Down with social progress!

September 11, 2015 No Comments

Ah, the Daily Express. Today, the Express is railing against an EU proposal to reduce sexism and the gender divide. “The Daily Express, for a more sexist world!”

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Challenging Gender ‘norms’ with Cycling: Kabul, Afghanistan

June 11, 2015 No Comments

Bicycles as tools of liberation. Why did you focus on bike riding? It’s kind of cliche, but it’s really important for a woman to be able to get somewhere without a male’s help. There are so many girls in Afghanistan who can’t afford to drive to school so they walk for hours. But they […]

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Don’t Measure A Woman’s Worth By Her Clothes

April 1, 2015 No Comments

This is very good – Don’t Measure A Woman’s Worth By Her Clothes: A brilliant ad campaign created for Terre Des Femmes, a Swiss human rights organization focusing on gender equality and feminism, reminds us that the worth of a woman should never be measured by something like the neckline of her blouse or height […]

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Wrong on so many levels

March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 No Comments

GOP considered dangerous: Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore of Nevada recently told The New York Times: “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”

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Seasonal Depression – Lego Friends

January 7, 2015 No Comments

Yes, this..

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Not just a girl

November 1, 2014November 1, 2014 No Comments

Jaime Moore decided on a different take for a photo set she took recently of her daughter. When looking for dress-up ideas, she found that no matter where I looked, 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of dressing your little girl like a Disney Princess. […] My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but […]