Will the 'culture warriors' start woezering about the National Trust (you know, that evil 'woke' institution the National Trust) doing this? Bat on a non-slip roof: National Trust adapts manor for nocturnal residents: Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk gives tiles a special coating to stop bats slipping off as part of £6m roofing project: The trust on ( Read more... )

While I'm absolutely there for recuperating needlework and textile skills from the condescension of posterity, as in this Twitter thread and this one yesterday -

- and deploring the simplistic invocation of a 'not like other girls' protag who prefers anything else to her needle (will concede that Madame C- confesses that she does not take after her ( Read more... )

Women Photographers in the Historic England Archive: Discover the women photographers whose work enriches the collections of the Historic England Archive.
A one-way passage from India: Hackney Museum explores fate of colonial ayahs: Indian women were often employed to care for British children, but some were abandoned on reaching UK.
Interview with ( Read more... )

Am rather tempted by this exhibition Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles, 25th January 2020 - 19th April 2020: [C]elebrates seven pioneering women who saw beyond the purely functional, to reveal the extraordinary artistic, social and cultural importance of textiles. From the exquisite anthropological collections of traditional Balkan ( Read more... )

Dept of, did you do any research?
That Uber vs TfL thing, with TfL refusing to renew their license - okay, I do not use Uber (I am probably not their target market) and everything I hear about it makes me deeply suspicious - but when I read various articles claiming that London black cab drivers are the trad white working class, I wonder how often ( Read more... )

I’m really shocked by how many people say they’ve never been to bed with someone who looked them in the eye, particularly at the point of orgasm.
And I can think of all sorts of reasons for that, and this statement seems to me to have embedded in it a rather trad missionary position subtext of what is sex; and it reminds me of something that I saw ( Read more... )

I did not realise she was dead, although it is a long time since her last book came out: Jane Rule and Desert of the Heart revisited by Jackie Kay. Though I think it's a bit odd not to mention her pioneering work on recuperating the literary traditions of lesbianism in Lesbian Images. Her other novels are also all well worth reading.

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Clitoraid strikes back - not, we may say, very effectively but by attacking those making those evil demands for things like evidence:
In a press release on April 21 2010 and a more frank statement on their website they argue their critics are anti sex; state questioning Clitoraid equals denying women treatment; and claim critics of the organisation ( Read more... )

DAFFODILS!!!!

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Dept of Ugh just keeps on giving - received (twice over) in this morning's email:( Read more... )

I've braved earthquakes and bullets in my hunt for fabulous fabrics.

Okay, yet again the art/craft binarism going on, permission to beat her about the head with a copy of Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, accompanied by a recitation of West's wonderful accounts of Balkan women's embroidery?

Plus, how is that wonderful textiles are only ( Read more... )