Should motherhood define us?

Should motherhood define us?

Apr 20, 2017 | LIFE, PARENTING

The scale of the adjustment from no children to one has never since been matched despite the best efforts of the arrival of a second child and the departure of my career. There’s no doubt that motherhood has changed me. I’m confident I’m not alone in that assertion...
I’ve marched before but this time was different

I’ve marched before but this time was different

Jan 22, 2017 | LIFE

This time it was personal. It became even more personal when on my way to the march a man approached me as I was making my way through the Underground carrying my placard. Genial enough at first he asked me what protest I was making my way to. It became apparent that...
The Brilliance of Trump

The Brilliance of Trump

Oct 17, 2016 | LIFE

I cried when I listened to Michelle Obama speak last week, and I know I wasn’t alone. With her careful thought, her clear intelligence, her black-ness and her female-ness, this ordinary, extra-ordinary woman appeared in binary opposition to the man she so resolutely...
Stay at home… feminist?

Stay at home… feminist?

Oct 1, 2016 | LIFE

I’m having to come to terms with being “kept” like a pet cat. I’m painfully aware that the money I’m spending is not “mine” in the way I always planned. And if one more person calls me a yummy-mummy, I think I might eat...