Do you harbour fantasies of being the greatest dancer at the party even though all evidence suggests otherwise? Do you stare at your co-workers, incredulous, because you have no idea how to connet with such cretins? Do you hate your boss, but channel your work-based rage into offensive gangsta rap lyrics? Do you often find [...]
Tag Archives: Women
Why I Love… Awkward Black Girl
Posted in America, Humour, Identity, Television, Video, Why I Love... Also tagged 'Lady Things', Black Girls Rock, Funnies, Internet 1 Comment
I Used To Be A Pomegranate*, Now I’m A Caravaggio
I find it hard to believe that anyone has ever looked at their body and thought, “Yup, I resemble a pear”. If your body type does not fall into the traditional fruit bowl, (big up the mangoes!) worry no more. Australian bra firm Triumph is campaigning for a total rehaul of the ‘fruit as women’s [...]
Posted in Beauty, Shopping, Society, Video Also tagged 'Lady Things', Art, Food, Old Masters, Um... 5 Comments
Pretty Is As Pretty Does
As seems to be the custom nowadays, I find myself watching telly with Twitter by my side. Last Wednesday, I settled in to watch Ugly Betty – which totes re-hit its stride just as they cancelled it – and watched as Betty met and eventually dated a very handsome playwright, Zachary Boule (Aaron Tveit). After [...]
Posted in Identity, Society, Television Also tagged Beautiful People, Comedy, Feminism, Men and Women, Telly 4 Comments
Badass Women: Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks
Today, 55 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. It was an incident that would spark one of the biggest and most well-known chapters in the Civil Rghts Movement. The resulting bus boycott gave us several of the iconic images of the CRM and Rosa Parks [...]
Posted in America, Love, Politics, Society Also tagged Black Girls Rock, Black People, Civil Rights Movement, Claudette Colvin, Feminism, Joy, Race, Rosa Parks Leave a comment
A Quick Thought on The Royal Engagement
In the run up to and even after the wedding of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson, my sister and I would put white pillowcases on our heads and pretend to walk down the aisle, taking turns to be each other’s bridesmaid. It was 1986, and we lived in unenlightened times. Amidst the frenzy that overtook [...]
Black Girls Rock!
On Saturday night(!), I watched Black Girls Rock. I have my issues with BET – this network consistently commissions/buys/broadcasts ig’nant ish, and for that alone, I cannot fully get behind them. But with this, BET did good. Black Girls Rock is a non-profit organisation set up by former model and celebrity DJ Beverly Bond, to [...]
Posted in America, Identity, Love, Review, Society, Television Also tagged Black Girls Rock, Black People, Feminism, Race, Telly 4 Comments
Have You Hated Yourself Today?
A couple of ads have caught my eye this week, and I wanted to talk through my thoughts with you. You’re welcome. The first ad was from Ryvita. A table of four professional-looking women sit down to eat what looks like lunch and engage in a conversation about what they’d change about their bodies. So [...]
Posted in Shopping, Society, Television, Video Also tagged Advertising, Bad Behaviour, Feminism, Food 10 Comments
Judas in an R’n'B Club
Yesterday my Walkman – no iPods here, thank you very much - threw up a blast from the past – No Doubt’s excellent Just a Girl from their classic 1995 album Tragic Kingdom. On the track, Gwen Stefani sings: “This world is forcing me/To hold your hand… I’m just a girl, all pretty and petite/So don’t let [...]
Posted in Career, Identity, Music, Society Also tagged Feminism, Gwen Stefani, Nelly Furtado, Popular, Popular Culture 5 Comments
YGD Public Service Announcement: A Call For A Moratorium On The Term ‘Real Women‘
The first thing I saw on Twitter on Tuesday morning was a link to a post by Janet Street Porter. The pullquote read: “The fashion world refuses to make clothes to fit real women. Enough is enough.” OK, I thought, I can get behind this. Or I would’ve thought that, if not for the inclusion [...]
Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Magazines, Society Also tagged 'Lady Things', Fashion, Headdesk, WTF 10 Comments
The Truth About Cats And Dogs – A Life Lesson
Bored at the weekend, and with a little cash burning a hole in my pocket, I revisited my Amazon.com wishlist. I tend to put things on in fits of activity – lots of childhood favourites like Enid Blyton and all sorts of 90s RnB – and then remove them at leisure when common sense prevails. [...]
Posted in America, Beauty, Identity, Love, Movies, Society Also tagged Awesome!, Ben Chaplin, Feminism, Film, Janeane Garofalo, Men and Women, Movies, Sisterhood, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Uma Thurman 16 Comments
Total Mirandas
Last weekend, I attended a bachelorette party for my friend, L. No, I haven’t lost my head up my own arse, I say ‘bachelorette’ because she’s American and besides, have you ever heard an American say ‘hen party’? Anyway, we went the classy route – retro bowling in Bloomsbury [All Star Lanes - Victoria House, Bloomsbury Place, [...]
Posted in America, London, Love, Movies, Society, Television Also tagged 'Lady Things', Feminism, London, Miranda Hobbes, SATC, Telly 8 Comments
Be Your Own Hero
I’m floating on a cloud at the time of writing this, and that is down to the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, Whip It. It’s so good. We went en masse, a gaggle(?) of feminists (what is the collective noun for feminists?), and I temporarily lost the ability to articulate my thoughts upon emerging from the screening [...]
Posted in London, Love, Movies Also tagged 'Lady Things', Feminism, Film, Friends, Joy, Whip It 13 Comments
The Women Are Coming…
Hey. Hi. Welcome to March. How you doin’? Settled? Great. Let’s talk WOMEN.
Posted in Culture, Exhibition, Identity, London, Movies, Society, Television Also tagged 'Lady Things', BBC, Feminism, Film, Telly, Womanhood 1 Comment
Why I Love… Dresses
Like many children of the 80s and 90s, I grew up in hardy denim and flannel, saving dresses (usually in too-warm velvet, rustly tafetta and itchy chiffon) for family weddings, birthdays, engagements, naming ceremonies, pretty much any gathering of more than 4 people… (ah, Nigerians!). So of course, I hated dresses, and all that they stood [...]
Posted in Fashion, Style, Why I Love... Also tagged 'Lady Things', Clothes, Dress, Fashion 9 Comments
