The University of Liverpool and Tate Liverpool run a programme called Tate Exchange. I was lucky enough to be one of the four academics selected this year to take part to deliver workshops. I would like to thank Hannah Schumann, Research Partnerships Marketing Manager, Professor Fiona Beveridge, (and all at UOL who made this happen) […]
Category Archives: Feminism
April
29
Criminologist or criminal? Liminal spaces as the site for auto/biography
posted by plasticdollheads
I am delighted to announce that my article is now published In Methodological Innovations. I will record a podcast shortly to discuss the article further. You can access the article here. If you use my article for teaching purposes, please let me know for my portfolio. Solidarity to all those with messy stories and struggling […]
April
11
Attention Whore: Writing to Rupture
posted by plasticdollheads
I will start this post by thanking the formidable Mona Eltahawy for inspiring it with this essay here. If you are not familiar with Eltahawy’s work, I highly recommend her blog, twitter feed and her book ‘The Seven Necessary Sins for Girls and Women’. In her essay above Mona states that: “A woman who writes […]
March
06
Trauma and reclaiming the body
posted by plasticdollheads
***Trigger warning: some of this content relates to sexual assault and trauma*** As with most of my ideas they emerge in the classroom or at random times. Instagram scrolling is totally work. One of the modules I lead is SOCI256 Power, Culture and Social Control. This is an innovative and exciting module to teach, with […]
August
31
The myth of beauty
posted by plasticdollheads
Beauty Myth It’s Bank Holiday Monday and I popped into town on the way home from lunch to grab some beauty bits. A disclaimer- I am no fashionista! Most of the time I have a pineapple head, no make up and am wearing training gear or my dressing gown. I have a complicated relationship […]
August
04
Sisters’ Keepers: The Case of Women’s Centres
posted by plasticdollheads
Acknowledgements Thank you to fellow researchers in the field who have supported my writing and encouraged me with many phone calls and messages There is incredible talent in this field. In particular thank you NH, AHS, KG, TA, EJ. Also thank you to all the Gender and Crime seminar students- you taught me a lot […]
February
02
Prisons and Theology
posted by plasticdollheads
Today is the final day of Christmas, it’s Candlemas. Now we head towards Easter and if you are a Christian, the cross. Yesterday I blogged about space and emotions. Today Rev Richard Ormond (highly recommend you give him a follow) tweeted the following link. “There’s something very powerful about our sense of place. […]
June
14
Spearmint Rhino and Gaslighting Feminists
posted by plasticdollheads
I wrote about ‘Not Buying It’ and stripping here. For those new to the issue, a campaign group called Not Buying It paid men to go into lap dancing clubs in Sheffield, Manchester and Camden and film naked women without their consent. A press release from Not Buying It is here. It […]
May
18
The Problem with Women’s Centres
posted by plasticdollheads
Paint it pink and state ’empowerment’ and the funding and support will come. But what exactly are people supporting? The growing push for prison abolitionism has made the fatal error of ignoring the critiques of the ‘radical alternatives’. The harms of prison are merely being displaced and reproduced in community settings. Women’s centres should not […]
April
06
The angel and the girl
posted by plasticdollheads
I must thank my lovely friend Ros for introducing me to this poem ‘The Angel and the Girl’ by Edwin Muir. Read it through a few times in its entire form (ideally aloud!) for its true beauty. “See, they have come together, see, While the destroying minutes flow, Each reflect’s the other’s face, Til heaven […]
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