Having reached 500 names, I have had to stop adding them manually, although many are still coming in via email. The way to add your name, from now on, is via the comments below. Thank you all for such warm support!   4 July 2020 Dear Gaby Wood and the Trustees of the Booker Prize, […]

misogyny /mɪˈsɒdʒ(ə)ni/ noun dislike of, contempt for, or engrained prejudice against women. “she was struggling against thinly-disguised misogyny” It’s still a thing, you know. If in doubt, try to explain what Damien Barr and friends did to Baroness Nicholson this week, without reference to it. Some men have ‘mummy issues.’ They’re on the look-out for […]

Here at The Organisation we were feeling somewhat optimistic when – with JK herself having budged not one inch in her pro-woman stance – both her publishing house and her literary agency declined to fold in the face of Woke cry-bullying. I mean, she’s their star author who sells a bajillion books, so it’s not […]

My mother used to have fits of temper when we, as children, messed around with her ceramics. Before she had a study, no part of the family house was hers alone. She felt the effects of having nowhere to retreat to, and nowhere to keep her precious things safe from rough and curious little hands. […]

Dear Reader, You and I both will have noticed the times they are a-changin.’ Having spent the last decade writing to please my upper-middle class male paymasters (they can’t get enough of trans-inclusive pseudo-feminism, for reasons which are beyond my wit, but whom I have noticed tend to wheel out a biddable new Cool Girl […]

Possibly I was slow to catch on. It was a shock to see the Twitter photo of a man brandishing a vicious-looking knife with the legend When you need to make your point above it. The post had popped up in a friend’s feed while she was talking about female survivors of sexual assault. That […]

It is hard to summarise the psychological effects of feeling that every event you are reading at, every tweet you make, every friendship you have, every follower who interacts with you, is being policed and spied on by those who wish for you to never work again. As a writer, this has been my experience, and […]

I used to write plays. But I don’t do that anymore. I used to make theatre happen, make shows on small downtown stages, commune with artists over drinks and late night snacks, talk form, structure, style, meaning, and artistic imagination with all the cool kids who inhabited the indie enclaves of this wild, untamed city, […]

Having been a part of the so called Lib-fem movement for a while, it wasn’t until the start of 2019 that I began my journey down the rabbit hole of transgender activism. I had been blissfully unaware of how it affects women’s sex-based rights, how it’s incredibly sexist as well as homophobic and how, if you […]