It’s here, it’s huge, it’s great – Carnival of Feminists No 41 over on Cruella-blog.
So many goodies I hardly know what to pick out – an F-word podcast (yeah – let’s take the boys’ toys away), a great post of pregnancy and motherhood that reminds me hugely of all of the friends I’ve watched go through it over the years, and much, much more…
But don’t waste time here – go over there and check it out!
Interesting. Caroline Lucas has won the pre-selection for Brighton Pavilion, generally considered the best chance for the Greens to win a Westminster seat at the next election (although there are a couple of other possibilities coming up close behind).
This is the first time the Green Party has had a pre-selection for a winnable seat, and it has gone better well – despite a snide report about it in the local paper, to which I won’t link.
She was selected by 55%, with Keith Taylor, who has previously contested it, and who leads the party on council, with 45%.
Update: Jim has written more on the selection.
Over on Comment is Free I have a piece about the need for complete decriminalisation of sex work, the only way to ensure the safety of the women, and men, involved.
(And, thus far anyway, haven’t had as tough a time in the comments as I expected…)
China has ordered hotels to neither over-refrigerate with air-conditioning nor over-heat, and to meet other eco-standards.
It would be lovely to see this in Bangkok, where you frequently need to pack your woollies to visit second-class hotels with pretensions, which turn up the air-con in an attempt to show their “class”.
Over on My London Your London I’ve a review of The Great Theatre of the World by Pedro Calderon de la Barca – now playing at the Arcola, and well worth an evening.
Two former prostitutes are running for the Turkish parliament with the aim of raising awareness of the treatment of sex workers there. It might surprise you to know that prostitution is, it seems, legal, and there are 3,000 registered prostitutes. But while that list is supposed to be secret, it is clear that the stigma follows women, and even their daughters…
…her daughter’s hopes of becoming a police officer collapsed when her mother’s record was revealed in a background investigation.
“I haven’t seen her for two years and I don’t know where she is,” Ermez says. “All I know is that she refers to me as ‘that woman’ and vows to kill me if she meets me.”
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