Having listened to Maddy Prior & June Tabor’s album ‘Silly Sisters’ several times at work the other day, I found myself with their version of Geordie stuck in my head — only, annoyingly, I couldn’t remember all the words, so had just snippets. Thinking to exorcise it through fuller knowledge, I opened up a songbook, [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Overthinking Folk Songs: Geordie
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Identity Politics
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was born in the ’80s, which means I was a child during the ’90s. I remember them, but with the perspective of a child; I saw things on the news; I overheard grownups and parroted their opinions. I didn’t start to become politically aware in my own right until the early ’00s, and didn’t [...]
Rape Culture and the Occupy X Protests
Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Like many feminists, I’ve been incredibly dismayed not only at the flood of reports of sexual harassment, assault and even rape in the Occupy camps, but also at many of the Occupiers’ responses to them. It is, of course, completely unacceptable for the camps to distance themselves from women who have been raped, and to [...]
