Tag: gender inequality
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Letter to my Latest Street Abuser
International Women’s Day seems like a good time to record and share this poem. I’ve been dismayed by all the people putting comments on news articles attempting to downplay the oppression of women in my home country (example). I wrote this last year after a particularly bad incident of sexist-homophobic street harassment in London. People…
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More than a nuisance
Whenever I join a language-learning website, I am inundated by messages from men whose language I am not learning. This is not news. This is very run-of-the-mill, the kind of thing that women find happens on a daily basis. Instinct and habit is to brush it off, just like the harassment we get in the street. Pretend it’s not…
SIOBHAN TEBBS 