June 2019: “ENOUGH!” I am shouting. “Enough of saying yes when I mean no. Enough of the voices of women being silenced. Enough of the bodies of women not being honoured. Enough of the Goddess being written out of the story. Because we need her, now more than ever.” The bright lights are on me as I prise apart a … Read More
Holding Against Extremes – Mothering and Making in a Time of Climate Emergency
Here we are, in an upstairs room at Oxford Playhouse: a circle of 20 adults, mostly women, and inside our circle are soft carpet, beanbags, babies. On our publicity is a delicate tissue-papercut of a pangolin, an endangered mammal, whose soft centre is protected by its scaly armoured back. ‘Fierce protection’ are the words chosen by one woman to describe her work … Read More