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Guilty – Of Being Ill
28th October 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
On 2nd July 2001, Barry George was convicted of the murder of Jill Dando. In 2008, after the conviction had been overturned in 2007, a retrial acquitted him. From the very moment he was found guilty, analysts such as Joan Smith of the Independent (in her article I'm amazed at the Dando verdict. Aren't you?) had suggested the conviction was unsafe, relying as it did on one dubious piece of...
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Condemnation of the ConDem Nation
8th October 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came together riding on the back of the wave of a financial deficit which apparently looked set to wipe out the country. (Apologies for the rather orgasmic nature of that sentence - I am, after all, an erotica writer!) Still, they said, even with this our government alliance can produce a 'fairer Britain'.
Fairer Britain? Oh yeah? For whom?George Osbourne's emergency budget was shown by a... -
Green Parenting
30th September 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
1. Change Your Ideas On Nappies.
Okay, in a perfect world we’d all be putting our babes in reusable nappies (and doing even more loads of washing than we already are), but realistically for most of us, that’s just not going to happen. Instead of thinking, “I can’t do that, so I can’t do anything,” think again. It's worth checking for local reusable nappy laundering services: if you're worried about the... -
Wheelchair Chic
16th September 2010 | 3 comments | 2 people like this
Have you ever noticed that clothes look and feel different when you're sitting down rather than standing up? That pair of jeans which seemed just the right length when you were standing in front of the mirror show an unnecessarily large amount of sock or ankle when you're sitting on a chair. When you're sitting down, the dress which clung sexily to your curves when upright makes your not-all-that-big-thank-you stomach...
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Where The Buck Stops…
27th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
When I started university in the dark old days of 1996, I was informed in a letter that I needed formally to 'declare' my disability. Which seemed fair enough, really, so I went along to do so, only to be told that I wasn't in the right place, but should go somewhere completely different on campus. “Oh bother,” thought I, and plodded off. To be told that I still wasn't...
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Cecilia Tan – Owner/Editor of Circlet Press
16th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
1 So, tell us a little bit about Circlet?
I started Circlet Press when I was still pretty much fresh out of college. I had been working at a respectable, venerable book publishing house for a couple of years at that point, but I'd always thought of myself as a writer and was trying to get published myself. The more time and energy I spent on other people's books, the further... -
Free Fiction: Illusions
2nd August 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
“They called it the Cornish Riviera in the magazines.”
Maisie had imagined sun – hot, baking sun, beating down on white sandy beaches full of smiling people. Like the South of France, only better, because you wouldn’t have those foreigners who didn’t understand English (not even when you repeated yourself, louder). Not this dank, dismal excuse for a holiday resort, where even the ice cream vans sold hot chocolate and the... -
Pubs, Clubs and Accessible Toilets
27th July 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
They have those low desks in banks now, made for wheelchair users and I applaud this, I really do. It's nice to feel that somebody, at some point, realised that being a wheelchair user does not mean that you're not allowed money.
Although possibly the cashiers were just fed up with saying “But that doesn't look anything like your signature!” and having disgruntled people snap back at them “Well, you try... -
Learn From Your Children
28th June 2010 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
A wonderful thing about children is that they are extremely accepting of disability. This is not to say that they are not interested in the differences between people – they certainly are, much to the embarrassment of their parents! But what parents often don't understand is that their child's innocent captivation with differences is very rarely a problem for the disabled person. I've had plenty of kids stare with undisguised...
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The Bananas World of Teen Publishing
21st June 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I wrote this story, you see, quite a while back, and bizarrely I've not been able to find anyone to publish it. Not 'bizarrely' because I wrote it, but bizarrely because... well, who could resist a title like How I Accidentally Fell Over A Crate Of Bananas And Ended Up Saving The World? Um, most publishers can, it seems! Mind you, they must have a long habit of resistance built...
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Penelope Friday
I'm Penelope Friday. I write erotica and I also write articles on sexuality. When I'm not writing about sex, I'm writing about disability. Sometimes I write about them both. When I'm not writing articles about sex or disability, I might be writing about cooking with pre-school kids, or about the Regency period, or about environmental 'green' issues. When I'm not writing erotica, you might find me writing sci fi, teen stories, poetry or twitter fics. Quite a lot of the rest of the time, I'm blogging obsessively, and all-too-regularly on the subject of missing muses...
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