What It Costs: Women Speak Out
Women writers and artists speak out about loss to their creative, personal and professional lives due to trans activism
Read More What It Costs: Women Speak OutOn “transphobia in the book industry”
An anonymous writer sent a three-page screed to the Bookseller which it duly published. While the letter drips with insinuation, it seems to be a response to David Shelley and Clare Alexander’s statements to a Lords committee on free expression. It also seems to be about some children’s authors’ objections to Onjali Rauf’s appointment as […]
Read More On “transphobia in the book industry”Who’s the bully, again?
Here are the things that happened since we published our open letter to the Women’s Prize on 6th April 2021. Have a read and make up your mind who was attempting to “malign or bully” whom. — while we expected the silent treatment, the opposite happened: — 30,000 views of the letter in 24 hours […]
Read More Who’s the bully, again?Review: Widowland, C.J. Carey
Quercus, Hardback, £14.99 C.J. Carey’s Widowland asks the question “what if a place existed where older women, already marginalised by society, were banished?” It draws upon the author’s experience of widowhood, and her research into the treatment of older German women during WWII. These so-called “Cemetary Women” were given the meanest rations because the National […]
Read More Review: Widowland, C.J. CareyTwitticism of the Open Letter to the Women’s Prize
Transing the dead: the letter is bad because women were mean to dead authors, who weren’t actually women, but men pretending to be women… The Unintentionally Hilarious: they deadnamed George Eliot waaaaaaah The Hopelessly Confused Misogynist: the letter is bad because men luxuriating in misogyny–as sex tourists–is the same as women exploring living with misogyny; […]
Read More Twitticism of the Open Letter to the Women’s PrizeSignatories’ & critics’ comments on our Open Letter to the Women’s Prize
–SUPPORTIVE– Women writers need to be recognized for their talent. Not just now but for future generations so girls can see they can do it too. One solitary prize. One. The speed with which more than half of the world is being scoured from every last corner of its culture is staggeringly, viciously efficient. Please […]
Read More Signatories’ & critics’ comments on our Open Letter to the Women’s PrizeWho Counts as a Wench Anyway? Aphra Behn Speaks Out*
It’s not easy being one of the only wenches on Grub Street. Dread of woman, among the woman-born, never seems to go out of fashion, even though–in fact, because of–the fact that every person who ever walked the earth owes their very life to a woman, to her body, and her care. Life can be […]
Read More Who Counts as a Wench Anyway? Aphra Behn Speaks Out*Follow-up to the Open Letter to the Women’s Prize
To the directors and trustees, We regret that, instead of acknowledging receipt of our letter and responding to us directly, you decided to issue a public statement mischaracterising us as “bullying” the judges, and the male author on the longlist. We completely reject that mischaracterisation. It feeds the perception—among liberal left people—that women standing up […]
Read More Follow-up to the Open Letter to the Women’s PrizeOpen letter to the Women’s Prize
To the directors and trustees, We write to you as concerned readers and authors. Originally, the Women’s Prize was established to recognise the contribution of female writers who were overlooked by other major literary awards. The founder launched it in response to the all-male shortlist for the 1991 Booker Prize. Over the years, the Women’s […]
Read More Open letter to the Women’s Prize5 non-fiction books of 2020
This year I barely scratched the surface of my non-fiction wishlist, but the following titles leapt out. Caution: cancelled authors and suppressed books! House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family by Hadley Freeman (Fourth Estate, hardcover) In this biography, Freeman — previously best-known as a columnist — turns the contents […]
Read More 5 non-fiction books of 20205 fiction books of 2020
When I started this blog last year, I planned to write about books and current events with a feminist slant. 2020 has been an extraordinary year for women’s rights. Books took a back seat as Wild Woman Writing Club became a place for women who write, think and make to resist the destructive and chilling […]
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