I had a piece published on Huffington Post about the issue.  Be great if you could highlight the link.  And if people want to do something about it they can mail their MP here.

Abortion rights campaigner and comedienne Kate Smurthwaite impersonated her way into Anthony Gormley’s exhibit One & Other on the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London on Wednesday, quite possibly becoming the world’s first living art forgery. One & Other is an art project by the Anthony Gormley, putting up one person every hour [...]

Reposted from Cruella-blog in the UK. I love to see someone whose work as a feminist I have long respected adding to the steaming heap of bullshit that makes it harder to do my job every day. Thanks for this one Ms Greer. I’ll give it the careful dissection it so blatantly doesn’t deserve… "I should probably not [...]

Enjoy!  If you do you could also go over to the Current TV website and vote for it to be televised.  But that is very shameless self-promotion so if you prefer – just enjoy.  And happy winterval to all!

From Cruella-blog . No major paper has reported on this. The BBC didn’t seem to think it was important enough for an article… Do however take a look at this . Mayor of London Boris Johnson made an election promise about rape crisis funding. He said he would increase funding to £744,000 to pay for four new centres as well [...]

Reported from Cruella-blog. I have just changed my Facebook profile so that it no longer has my gender on it. Not that it’s a secret or that I can’t remember what it is any more – I’m just really fed up with every time I log on being bombarded with hundreds of adverts for diet products. I’m not [...]

I went to a meeting last night at the House of Commons about abortion rights and the up-coming amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. At the meeting I heard some very moving stories about the experience of women in Northern Ireland . For instance a woman who was told after having a child that if she [...]

The UK is supposed to be secular.  Of course it’s not.  In two days two different religious groups are threatening not just women’s rights or freedoms but – their lives. Life-threatening screw-up number one.  We now have Islamic Sharia courts operating in the UK.  Yes, I know you’re thinking – that’s impossible, people would NEVER tolerate this.  [...]

From Cruella-blog in the UK. No-one, I assume, labours under the illusion that military institutions are a bastion of gender equality and opportunity for women. It’s taken women a very long time to get even so far as to be allowed into most branches of the military. Some are still out of reach – like anything involving [...]

Adapted from I Woz Ere Too on Cruella-blog I was at the Guardian-sponsored liberal bloggers conference on Tuesday. Photos at Liberal Conspiracy , who hosted the event. I generally enjoyed the chance to meet other bloggers. I wasn’t so impressed with the insistence on having a second half dedicated to essentially “Why aren’t women and feminist bloggers getting more recognition?”. Speaking as [...]