Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola
an interesting introduction to progressive gender studies that every teenage lad should read!
Tag: feminism
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
some really gorgeous prose
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
v good poems tho a v poor blog post
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
essential reading, especially if you’re a racist
SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
tell me again how bad i am
#TotNTV: Listening
Winnie M Li and David Ralfe discuss the importance of listening:
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
If Greer – who doesn’t believe in non-binary genders – is correct, then I am a woman.
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men: they wear T-shirts saying “Smash the patriarchy” with an arrow pointing at their penis
Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
A charming, quirky, book tainted by middle aged white male bullshit.
more online male-centric feminism
More writing from that weird character I do at Huffington Post.
do u have a sexist friend?
relentlessly promoting my anti-london agenda
Birthday Post: 6,500 Words on Skyfall
It’s my birthday and I’ll write 6,500 words on Skyfall if I want to
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
I’ve accidentally grown a goatee and as a result of this I now look like a sex pervert*. This wasContinue Reading
Preacher: Book Two by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
I read the first volume of Preacher about a year ago, and really enjoyed its brash ridiculousness. This second volumeContinue Reading
Midland: A Novel Out of Time by Honor Gavin
midlands novel and a road trip into childhood
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s famous non-fiction treatise on ‘Women and Fiction’, A Room of One’s Own, is an embarrassingly prescient text aboutContinue Reading
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman is an important* text. Written at the end of the eighteenth century byContinue Reading
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
This is the third memoir about “growing up” in the second half of the 20th-century I’ve read in a rowContinue Reading
Don’t Marrakech, Fuck Me: The Beautiful South of Morocco (And Modern Moroccans on a Train!)
Now, being pedantic w/r/t* geography, Marrakech is in CENTRAL Morocco. But it’s further south of everywhere bar the desert IContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 