John Baker’s Blog

Tuesday 8 April – Tuesday 22 April 2008
Roots and Wings Exhibition
artsdepot presents an exhibition celebrating the work of its participatory arts programme for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and newly arrived communities.
Working with professional female photographer, Poppy Szaybo, the images have all been created by women aged between 16-85 years, from countries such as China, Somalia, [...]

Sexism in the workplace, circa 1943

It weren’t me I don’t ‘member being there. No sir.
This’s not how I’d do and I never left this place to do nothing. Not me. I’d sure ‘member something like that. I’m not going down for something like that. I’m clean in this respect.
Permission to speak, sir?
Some other guy might’ve but I wasn’t the one [...]

Six women - Jessica Valenti, Natasha Walter, Rebecca Walker, Julie Bindel, Ariel Levy and Joan Smith - speak about the feminist writers who first inspired them.
And The Guardian makes an offer - We would love to hear about the book that first opened your eyes to the women’s movement. Whether it was one you found [...]