Hi I'm so busy in the kitchen cooking and writing up recipes that I almost forgot. This is the day set aside for us. Women. You know, the other half of the population. The invisible half. Invisible?! I hear you cry, as images of air-brushed models and superstar women dance before your eyes. Yes, invisible,... Continue Reading →
Time for 21st century speak! Use ‘they’ as a singular pronoun.
Here's the rest of that essay as promised yesterday! We are not being pernicious bitch feminists when we ask you to use 'they' rather than 'he', we ask you to use 'they' because it includes women and girls as equals. Language shapes identity and sociocultural mores. Girls need to grow up knowing they are equal,... Continue Reading →
Color Out of Space Day 2
Highlights of last evening were mostly social! or is it that it takes a day or two to absorb and respond? Met Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance, festival organizers, outside the venue when I arrived last night. Dylan expressed his personal disappointment with the low numbers of women presenting. Told me he doesn't want to... Continue Reading →