
Make Your Mark – #JoinWE
Last week for International Women’s Day I was delighted to be invited to be included in this video. It’s a very simple message #makeyourmark Continue reading Make Your Mark – #JoinWE
Jo Cox described herself as a massive feminist – hoping to be as deserving of that title as she was.
Last week for International Women’s Day I was delighted to be invited to be included in this video. It’s a very simple message #makeyourmark Continue reading Make Your Mark – #JoinWE
Yesterday Evening at the Amersham Arms, WEP Lewisham held a fundraiser to raise money for our Local Council election campaigns in Ladywell, Lewisham Central and Brockley.
Three brilliant comedians treated us to take their take on the world and we hugely grateful to Ada Campe for setting it up and to Rachel Creeger and New Cross’s own Thanyia Moore for appearing.Â
Always up for a challenge, I took the straight woman slot and introduced what our WEP Lewisham campaign is about. Here’s roughly what I said. Continue reading “WE don’t want to wait another 100 years to see Equality”
In the centenary year of some UK women getting the vote, voters in Ladywell, Lewisham Central and Brockley wards have the chance to make history by giving one of their three votes on 3 May to the Women’s Equality Party, putting women’s and girls’ needs front and centre of council decisions. Â
Continue reading Women’s Equality Party announce candidates for Lewisham
In the centenary year of some UK women getting the vote, voters in Ladywell, Lewisham Central and Brockley wards have the chance to make history by giving one of their three votes on 3 May to the Women’s Equality Party, putting women’s and girls’ needs front and centre of council decisions. Â
Continue reading Women’s Equality Party announce candidates for Lewisham
It’s not just about money, there’s a societal bias going on, there’s an attitude problem and we have to ask what the link is between that attitude and the fact that women’s health and support for medical research into women’s health has since forever been the poor relation. Continue reading My first day in Parliament
The geek in me loves that it’s performed in ancient greek with English subtitles. Most of us won’t understand the words but through the music in the language, you can hear the women calling us from across the centuries and cheering us on. For me, she’s telling us both that there is no time like the present and that all times are like the present – until the women change them. Continue reading Lysistrata – A break from canvassing and …. a reason to inspire us to do it.
On Saturday 8th April I did what I find myself increasingly doing these days, I left the sanctuary of my South East London garden, (the first really sunny Saturday of the year) and got on a tube to central London to sit in an underground room with a bunch of strangers. In the last two years I’ve become an activist and like many others, I’ve … Continue reading She can’t keep quiet and we mustn’t either
When we can’t see that we’re achieving, that we’re in demand, that we are in command of our subject, that one slip up doesn’t negate 20 triumphs, we must call out to each other, be each other’s reflection, tell each other what we can’t always see for ourselves. Continue reading Of menopause & mirroring
Nothing like this has ever happened to me – and if it hasn’t happened to you it’s hard to imagine, even harder to imagine the mindset of the men who did this. I’m sharing this because the writer has offered it to us, so that we can’t say we don’t know … Source: On The Frightening Realities of Being a Woman in 2017 Continue reading On The Frightening Realities of Being a Woman in 2017
I’m having a gloriously music filled morning thanks to my new hearing  list from jazz composer Issie Barratt. Source: Home Continue reading Helena Kay
Public interest news for Greenwich and SE London, funded by you
Thinking about culture as if people mattered
Technology Evangelist, Digital Skills Expert and Entrepreneur