Gender, Privilege, and Political Blogging
In recent months it has become popular to gather statistics on the lack of diversity of people working in the media. Feminists started using the #diversityaudit hashtag to record information about the gender of people appearing on tv, Kira Cochrane wrote a now famous article for the Guardian, showing that over 75% of newspaper articles [...]
Disentangling population reduction and women’s empowerment
By Fiona Ranford There are growing murmurings amongst environmental activists that, despite the obvious unease around the subject, it’s time to tackle the population issue. These concerns have been exacerbated by the Malthusian rhetoric around last week’s 7-billionth-person. Of course the weight of the eugenics and coercive population control weighs heavily on our minds. While [...]
Feminine or Feminist?
In the beginning there was man and there was man’s wife (woman). And man was brave and strong and clever, and man’s wife was weak and emotional, and cared for pretty things like skirts and sparkles. Or something like that. Unfortunately, but not really surprisingly, we are still influenced by this picture of gender and [...]
Men blogging about feminism
I’m often embarrassed by how little I write about feminism. I am more than happy to give my opinions here on Bright Green about a whole range of subjects. Clearly I’m not an expert in most, if any of them. As it happens, two of my modules for my degree were about feminist theory – [...]
Women’s Budget protest – pictures
20 women blockaded the main exits from Downing Street this morning, in an attempt to stop George Osborne delivering a Budget that would hammer women. The protestors were in place from 11.15 until 11.52, when the Chancellor’s car broke through the blockade. Protestor Sara Ayech said: “We are stopping George Osborne from delivering his bankers’ [...]
My Green Conference Highlights (Saturday and Sunday)
I have never been to a political conference, so the Greens will be my first! The conference is very much like Compass’: to borrow a phrase from Yes Minister’s Bernard when Jim orders an economy drive, but meant in a nice way – CBA (can’t be everywhere). In other words, the conference has a wide [...]
On Scotland’s People…
This article is cross-posted from Lallands Peat Worrier The Scottish Household Survey “is a continuous survey based on a sample of the general population in private residences in Scotland” which is “designed to provide reliable and up-to-date information on the composition, characteristics, attitudes and behaviour of Scottish households and individuals, both nationally and at a [...]