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December 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Spectrum / Divide

Gender is a spectrum, not a divide. We treat mental illness now as the spectrum it is – where once we were divided. We are still divided on gender – despite it not being easily divisible, and never easy so no longer about being divisible… This is what I was thinking on a nice stroll […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Girl Is A Gun, Divide, Feminist, Gender, Poem, Poem: Spectrum / Divide, Spectrum, Spectrum / Divide ·

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November 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Rebecca Solnit: The Mother of All Questions

The Mother of All Questions Rebecca Solnit Haymarket Books When I was reading Men Explain Things To Me it was in the wake of the breaking of the Cosby scandal. What a sad, prescient, serendipitous and truly appalling thing it is to have this fantastic ‘sequel’/companion volume and to be reading it in the wake […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged "Further Feminisms", Book, Book Review, Companion, Essays, Feminism, Feminist, Men, Men Explain Things To Me, Mother, Motherhood, Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Solnit: The Mother of All Questions, Sequel, Silence, The Mother of All Questions, Women, Writing ·

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August 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Roxane Gay: Hunger – A Memoir of (My) Body

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay Harper Roxane Gay is a very good writer – and across so many disciplines. She’s prolific too, or it seems that way at least – online journals, fiction – long and short, essays, comic books, memoir. Sometimes she blends memoir with fiction, the essay form being creatively […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bad Feminist, Book, Book Review, Essayist, Fat, Feminist, Feminsim, Harper, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Memoir, Rape, Roxane Gay, Roxane Gay: Hunger - A Memoir of (My) Body, Weight, Writer ·

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February 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 52 – Emily Writes (Again!)

Welcome to episode 52 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with blogger/writer/author Emily Writes. In fact it’s a second chat, Emily is the first return-visitor to the podcast and if you wanted to catch up with her previous time, or revisit it yourself – it was way back at Episode […]
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May 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise: Film

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise Directors: Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack An American Masters presentation/Poet’s Poet Media Group/WNET/ITVS Poet, essayist, memoirist, dancer, singer, storyteller, campaigner, protester, advocate, actor, the great Maya Angelou was an inspiration to many – and towering presence in African-American literature and culture. As a political totem for race and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged And Still I Rise, Caged Bird, Calypso, Doc, Doc Edge, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Feminist, Film, Film Review, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise: Film, Movie, Movie Review, Poem, Poetry, Politics ·

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February 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 14 – Emily Writes

Episode 14 of Sweetman Podcast is my chat with Emily Writes. She’s a “mummy blogger” – though she’s reclaiming that; people say blogger like it’s a dirty word or you’re less of a writer; people say Mummy Blogger to perhaps further invalidate… Emily Writes writes. Funnily enough. She’s been a journalist. She’s moved into blogging […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged #14, Ballet is For Everyone, Blog, Blogging, Boganette, Dear Mama, Emily Writes, Episode 14, Feminism, Feminist, Gender, Injustice, Internet, Interview, Journalism, Magazine, Mama Said, Mother, Mr. B, Mum, Mummy Blogger, New Zealand Herald, Newspaper, Nik Jarvie, Parent, Rape, Simon Sweetman, Social Justice, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast Ep 14, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 14 – Emily Writes, The Herald, Victim Blaming, Women's Weekly, Writer, Writing ·

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March 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things To Me

Men Explain Things To Me Rebecca Solnit Haymarket Books You can imagine Rebecca Solnit might hate the term fearless feminist, might see it as patronising – in much the same way she explains the situation in the title essay (a piece that, written in 2008, went viral, it’s collected here with a handful of more […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Essays, Feminist, Feminsim, History, Men Explain Things To Me, Non-FIction, Rebecca Solnit, Writing ·

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