Won’t somebody think of the children (for real)?

Something is happening in my local community that makes me cringe. Where I live, people drive big shiny black block-of-flats cars. They pull hair-raising u-turns outside busy school zones, mount two wheels on the footpath as five-year olds walk past.

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What’s the deal with feminist art?

“Feminism, as an art movement is over. All the issues of feminism have been solved”, said a classmate in one of my lectures once.

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It’s an OK world after all

The other night I was watching a discussion between sage-like knicker machinists Sean and Julie of Coronation Street. Julie, who is pregnant, was concerned about the world she was bringing her unborn baby into. This is said often. “What kind of world am I bringing my children into?”

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