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Men and Feminism
Slowly I’ve come around to the idea that feminist men exist. A friend from Hampshire Feminist Collective was asking about links to websites about feminism for men, and we realised they’re thin on the...
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Mental Health Awareness Week: Physical Activity and Wellbeing
“Physical activity is often described as something we ‘ought to do’ to avoid developing health problems such as diabetes and heart disease. What’s less often explained is the huge potential it has to...
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How to avoid using ableist language?
At some point or another, we’ve all used an ableist word, whether we mean to or not. Ableist language is any language which uses words typically used to describe disabled, mentally ill or...
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“That’s sexism against fathers!”
I wrote a new post at Mothers For Women’s Lib about the argument from men’s rights activists (and others!) that courts are unfairly biased towards women when it comes to battles over custody of children.
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Lowering the abortion time limit isn’t the answer!
Oh, Jeremy Hunt. I knew very little of him until recently, but now it turns out he’s the new Health Secretary… and he is in favour of reducing the ‘abortion time limit’ (the latest point in pregnancy...
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Who deserves a disability badge?
I was reading a popular internet discussion forum a little while ago, and was interested to see the subject of disability come up. The topic in question was on what “counts” as disability. Many...
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Donate to provide Mooncups for Gambian women
Becky Johnson on Facebook, part of the Hadamayaa group, says “Will you donate £6 to buy a woman in The Gambia a Mooncup and give her the gift of sanitary protection – something we take for granted?...
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Apparently women of childbearing age shouldn’t be allowed psych meds…
I wrote a post over at Mothers For Women’s Lib about the safety of psychiatric medication during pregnancy and doctors’ ignorance on the matter.
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Candlelit Vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance
Hampshire Feminist Collective, the local feminist group with which I’m involved, has organised a candlelit vigil to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. From the Facebook event page: Transgender Day of...
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TTFN!
The me who owns this blog now is a very different me to the one who started it. With that in mind, I am closing Shut Up, Sit Down indefinitely, effective immediately. I’m not throwing my toys out of...
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