An Oral History of the Lesbian Avengers - fascinating. Though with this: I also think the internal fucking fucked the Lesbian Avengers. When you start getting into relationships and you’re happier, you protest less because you’re less outraged.
I was rolling my eyes somewhat and thinking, sounds more like a whole lot of intra-organisation ( Read more... )

Overlooked No More: Eve Adams, Writer Who Gave Lesbians a Voice: 'Her 1925 book, “Lesbian Love,” is one of the earliest examples of American lesbian literature. She also ran Eve’s Hangout, a literary haunt in Manhattan': Her “Lesbian Love,” a collection of short stories and illustrations, was published in February 1925. Written under the pseudonym ( Read more... )

Still no slots coming up for vaccine appointments at the site I can actually conveniently get to. This is becoming a bit tiresome. Only at the other one which is not well situated for getting to on foot - I really don't want to take the London Overground, somehow.
However, and meanwhile, I have been solicited to Do My Bit for SCIENCE. Some years ( Read more... )

(And feeling distinctly meta about it...)
Some while ago I noticed this tweet about this project: Body, Self, and Family is a major research project funded by the Wellcome Trust which examines how wider social changes affected women’s experiences of self, body and emotion from c. 1960-1990.
And thought that I fit right into the parameters date-wise ( Read more... )

What’s in a Name? Erasing women writers in the name of uplifting them: It is easy to get caught in the trap of historical revisionism when it comes to women writers, but this revisionism is rarely along progressive lines - despite its claims. Instead, it is a conservative reimagining of women struggling to survive in a man’s world that erases the ( Read more... )

Last year, as I don't particularly expect anyone but myself to remember, at the beginning of November I found that I had been cut off without warning from the email of My Former WorkPlace Where I am still A Research Fellow, and only after several failed attempts to connect with IT people did I get in touch with relevant Departmental Administrator, ( Read more... )

When Maud Pember Reeves published Round About A Pound A Week, and available on Project Gutenberg, blessed be its name.
I daresay the passage about porridge is fairly well-known, when people talk about 'why do they not feed their children lovely healthy nutritious food?', which was what the well-intentioned Fabian ladies were doing in Lambeth. But ( Read more... )

Having problems with cross-posting to LiveJournal - it's been very slow over the past couple of days and today doesn't seem to be x-posting at all, but I'm not getting 'failure to cross-post messages', so I'm not sure what's amiss.
Also I had a message the other day that somebody who I don't think was ever subscribed to this journal had ( Read more... )

Britons having less sex and digital life may be to blame - study
It's not actually stated in that article - maybe it is in the study - but I think what they are talking about when they are talking about 'having sex', is having some form of sexual activity with another person? Since it's phrased as 'sexual contact' we presume that they're not ( Read more... )

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