I hope that, when I see people very wrought up about something that does not have the same resonance for me, I do not go around saying poo-poo and declaring that they should not be feeling what they are feeling.
In fact, this may be a good time to call attention once more to my posting of the amazing Dr Petra Boyton's piece about the intention of ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to read this ever since it came out in 2005 - it had rave reviews in the academic press, and anyway, Julie-Marie is someone I know whose work I greatly respect, However, for the longest time it was only available as an inordinately highly-priced hardback; but it finally achieved both paperback and ebook release, and I bought the ( Read more... )

Urrggh, aaaargh, eeeeeeeuuuuuuwww, etc to the gospel that Catherine Hakim is preaching in Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital. Interview with Zoe Williams here, and you get the distinct impression that Zoe wished she'd taken a codfish with here, and review of the noxious thing by Will Self, which is a bit point thahr misst (wot duz e no about ( Read more... )

Discovered via this really rather excellent rebuttal (on a new blog which I shall be watching with some interest) of its message:

Mary Kenny*, Cases of depression have grown around the world. But while awareness of the illness has helped lift the stigma it once attracted, have we lost touch with the importance of just feeling sad. This concludes as ( Read more... )

Article about memorial websites:
containing the following line
Does it say something about us as a society, that something so private as grief is now often done so publicly?

Maybe it is My Age and I am compressing time in memory, but it seems like about 10 minutes since* that everyone was going 'Woez, the Victorians talked about death but sex was a ( Read more... )

My mother would have been 80 today.
I miss her in the weeping of the rain
I want her at the shrinking of the tide.