I never knew until Woman’s Hour this morning that they call it a flood. A bleed so heavy you are scared to leave the house. With me they started as peri menopause set in. (Note. Not every woman experiences them) I was in recovery from years of pregnancy losses (natural conceptions) and unsuccessful IVF. I thought this was just the next thing. And soon after … Continue reading Flood is the word
Yesterday I was invited to the shortlist for the Women’s Equality Party list of candidates for the Greater London Assembly Election. Here’s what I said at the assessment session… Please join us as part of WEP – there’s no better time than now to make change. You can do that here https://www.womensequality.org.uk/join_to_vote Join by 30th March and voting closes 31st March (votes only for London members). … Continue reading WE have 2020 vision
In 2016 I attended my first-ever party political conference. The WEP’s first-ever conference. This was not a co-incidence. Party Conferences have always intrigued and repulsed me, and I had never really felt invited or included. WEP’s first-ever conference held shortly after the Brockley by-election, in which I stood as the first-ever WEP local council candidate – and in the same as year as I’d … Continue reading Stepping up …. again
“If I had to pick one pivotal moment for women in the last 100 years, I would pick right now. 2018 has the potential to be a landmark moment for women” Helen Pankhurst –Let’s prove her right. I’m standing to represent the residents of Ladywell on Lewisham Council for the Women’s Equality Party. I’ve been campaigning since the end of February, mostly by working with a … Continue reading FAQs on my council candidacy
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. 
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”
On 1st November 2017 I was delighted to be asked to speak on the panel at Fertility Network UK’ event at the Houses of Parliament:
I’m delighted to be on this panel because this was my world for nearly ten years.
I’m not a health specialist, I’m not a parliamentarian, although I am a founder-member and candidate of the Women’s Equality Party.
We are creating our new policy for Equal Health and Medical Research,
Which will be ratified by our party’s 65,000 members and supporters. That process hasn’t happened yet, so I need to be clear that I am here speaking personally.
Continue reading “Social Justice and Infertility a personal view”
Originally posted on Not Writing But Blogging:
Oh dear. I just realised it’s October, aka breast cancer awareness month. A whole month of pinking up something that is neither pretty nor pink. Sigh. Here’s what I hate about it : comedy references to ‘boobs’/’tits’ – neither word is relevant, it’s breast cancer. Men get it too. Men (usually) have neither boobs nor tits. It’s BREAST… Continue reading The Pinking of October
I’m doing some work for the Women’s Health Policy Group which will be updating our policy for ratification at the Women’s Equality Party conference in September. Here’s a great example of a woman and a citizen correcting an inequality Source: Mothers’ campaign forces U-turn over NHS cuts to baby milk Continue reading Mothers’ campaign forces U-turn over NHS cuts to baby milk
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