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Last Year's New Year Resolution Update

2010 is winding down and what have we done. In between working, school, caring, sharing and all the other things that make up our everyday lives I think it's been a productive year. My personal new year's resolution was to, essentially, be a better feminist. 

Now that is quite a general phrase to throw around but what I basically mean is that I wanted to become a feminist in more than words. I wanted to be active, to engage with other feminists and to be proud to call myself one.

Over the year I have actually met that challenge in numerous ways. I signed myself up to help at the Ladyfest Ten festival in London, which if you didn't go to was amazing, in late 2009. Before I knew it I was swept up in a feminist wave revolving around websites, cupcakes and spreadsheets. Ask any Ladyfester, that's basically how the lead up to the festival can be described. 

Although we did all work ourselves into the ground and have probably done irreparable damage to our careers or education it was, break out the tissues, life changing. We put on a 3 day cross cultural event in London from absolutely nothing that featured some great acts, workshops, performers and speakers.

I met some cool girls who I'm still friends with now and we're still thinking of ways to spread our underground feminist message into popular discourse. Whether we're setting up self defence classes, running film nights or djing at club nights we're all still involved. We're all still visible as feminists which allows other girls to feel comfortable to come up and talk to us.

I've also found time to go to numerous feminist conferences which have always been an eye opener to say the least. My first march was this year's Million Women Rise. Even though it was spring time it was freezing cold and that didn't stop thousands of women coming out to march.

To wind down the year I responded to an ad looking for girls looking to form a riot grrrl band. now a few months later we're on our way to becoming a fully fledged band with songs and everything.

To conclude that whole essay was just an example that although for most people 2010 was a write off regarding jobs, careers or their futures in general, you can feel better by changing one aspect of your life. Of course I could always do more but those steps have helped me immensely.

My New Year's resolution, excluding the usual lose weight become a better person etc, is to volunteer at charity. This website is a great resource for ideas.

I Know Christmas Has Gone But...

.... as Christmas songs go this pretty much fits the mood of the country now.

Christmas: The Aftermath

Not my actual family

So it's Boxing Day and I'm currently sitting in my living watching Jamie Oliver with my mum while my dad is sleeping in his armchair. I hope you all enjoyed Christmas day whatever you were doing.

I spent yesterday discussing the racism that occurs in Jamaica, student fees benefit scroungers and how much we hate the government.

It was quite a varied Christmas day conversation really.

Let's Start a Band and Get Outta This Place

So I have finally started a band and it was all by chance. In September in the run up to Ladyfest Ten online magazine The Girls Are set up a battle of the bands competition as a fundraiser for Ladyfest Ten. The ultimate band would win a place on the Ladyfest Ten set list. I thought it was a great idea and when saw a message looking for girls that wanted to start a riot grrrl band for the competition I immediately replied.

After all these years who would have thought that being able to set up a band would be so easy. No more playing quietly alone in my room, writing songs no one else will here. Now I'm in a real life band.

I met up with Ray and we both had similar ideas of what kind of music we wanted to make and decided to meet up again for a jam session. A few weeks later we did and we successful wrote two songs, which are think are awesome.

Since it was just us two we had to advertise for other members. A few gumtree posts later and we're starting to look like a fully formed band that consist of Ray, lead guitar, Claudia, bass, me, rhythm guitar, Harry, vocals and Sophie, drums.

We don't actually have a name yet but we won't let that stop us. Hopefully after we practise a bit more, we can get a bit tighter and actually gig. So exciting.

SIS IUD Stay In School Cuz It's The Best

Hello non-readers, all two of you who accidentally clicked on the wrong link and ended up here. A blog in limbo. Too tedious to update regularly but too necessary to delete forever.

It's been a while but I've decided to stop my procrastination here by updating this blog which is actually just another form of procrastination. I need to pack my bags to go back home for Christmas in 2 hours but instead I've decided to do something else entirely. Makes sense don't it.

Anywho there have been a lot of changes in my life for instance I am half way through a 6 month NCTJ journalism course to fulfil my dream of actually getting paid to write something, imagine the thought. I go to college at noSWeat Journalism School in Clerkenwell. It's full of the loveliest journos you could meet, all journos are nice in opinion anyway, and it is a diploma that I need.

There are a lot of things about it that make you wonder about your life choices. Is one course really worth £4000 considering the funny little things that keep happening. Either way it's not really an option to bail out now and it is a useful course so I'll see how it goes.

Updates are fun aren't they. Let's see how often I blog here till I forget about it or get bored.

For Feminists Who Want a Laugh....

... I just got an anonymous email from a troll. You know the kind of email it was passive aggressive, belittling and most importantly grammatically incorrect. Yes it is a fact that every troll on the internet is so consumed with hatred and bitterness that they lost the ability to spell. It just falls right out of their angry little heads. So while I should probably be more worried about where this guy got my personal email address from I'll just laugh about it for no. I hope you do too.



Hi,

You like feminism among other things. I wonder why? Which kind of feminism?

1. Feminism which treat female as "equal" because of political
correctness (PC) or
2. feminism which gives preferential treatment like in employment,
because they cannot compute with open opportunities out in real world or
3. Feminism which prefer fast tracking women with out proper education
or training just for being women or
4. Feminism which gives pass marks in colleges because, women do like to
be treated as weak and feeble beings or
5. Are you looking for real and an adulterated "equality" ?

Like: to be given enterance exam or proper assesment at every level
against male and even other women. Do you really like women to be equal
with out BUT or ha and you don't wnat to be treated superficially at
every level as capable of doing a given job with their own effort with
out hiding behind colleagues.

If you are trying to mention women give birth ....: please don't, women
and most female animals give birth for millions of years. If you have
cats, rats, or if you watch documentary about mammals, they give birth
because that is their biological physical make up. They raise their off
spring with out huhaha.

The biggest problem with feminist women is that they want to to be given
preferential treatment in employment and promotion and so on. They don't
know what to do with the money they make. They recieve child benefit
from state, or they collect from two or more fathers for children, they
are making in P/T or F/T job and some prostitutions. All thse money flow
to their account BUT they don't want to spend on their children instead :

Plastic surgery, boob enhancement, buttock jobs, nose job, vagina
enhancement?, 200 pair of chooses and sex toy of this and that sort.

Men are making money to win over women and went to war to win other
lands and send to their family and fight against viciously other men. To
keep their female companion to themselves.

Can you see the contrast behind why women are making money and women
make money? In short men make money to impress women and feed their
family and women make money for superficial ego.

I know as a woman who profited from PC you can't see my point,

Good luck any way with your feminism,

LBA

Imagine, if you have a male son and he is rejected from school or
college place because because of his gender and again lets us say he
succeeded to complete his education and was rejected to priority to his
female friends who were sleeping around while he was banging his head in
library? Let us say you reachead your middle aged years and see your
husband if you marry and all your male relatives are with out work and
become drug dealers and criminals.

Is that the equality WI preaching to desperate women out there?

Good luck any way, with your superficial equality!!!!!

Bye