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Criminate – 100 words

January 11, 2024 By Ellen

Criminate Gender pay gap – maternity leave, child care, leaves office on the dot Gender sleep gap – gestational hip pain, night feeds, unruly concerns Gender glee gap – don’t wake baby, it’s a school night, mental load Gender dream gap – not this promotion, don’t be selfish, after they’ve left Gender love gap – […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, feminism, Gender Pay Gap, parenthood, prose poetry

Rough and the smooth – 100 words

April 13, 2023 By Ellen

Rough and the smooth What the internet thinks I’m interested in are easy methods to remove extra hair from my limbs and other places. They won’t work: rogue hair management is a woman’s penance to be paid unless she can stand hirsute and proud – I’m a feminist, stroke my pelt. This is certainly what […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, armpits, feminism, hair removal, shaving

Change is now – 100 words

February 17, 2023 By Ellen

Change is now   Her menopause drove her mad, she couldn’t cope, poor old thing. They nod like the bobbing penises on a jogging squad of naked bigots and say ‘ah, that explains it.’ Hot flushes – outrageous cliches. Whisper it: The Change. You’re damned right it’s change – a furious excoriating tornado of change. […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, feminism, menopause, outrage, patriarchy, Sexism

Delilah – 100 words

February 7, 2023 By Ellen

Delilah Once upon a time there were stories about women who pined and sighed and sat about in big pants drinking gin. If only, they wailed, he would come and rescue me from this life of solitude. Because a man is what I need to complete me and bring me socks to wash. Then one […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, banning, creative writing, fairy tales, feminism, patriarchy

100 words – Roe v Wade

June 26, 2022 By Ellen

Roe v wade No one wants to need an abortion, in the same way no one wants to be raped, to be carrying a baby that will die before it’s born, to use contraception properly but still become pregnant, to be dumped by the father of their child, to be too young to know the facts, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: abortion, feminism, feminist, Roe V Wade, woman

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