We can’t all be Miss Honey and maybe we shouldn’t even try.

By Judith | June 1, 2013

I got a little bit cranky on Twitter tonight. Oh, that’s nothing unusual. Twitter is kind of designed to make you cranky—indeed, that’s why many people, it seems to me, seek it out. Me, I usually retreat when I start to feel my blood pressure rise. Emotional equilibrium is pretty precious to me, and I’m…

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Censor or suck it up? Racism and children’s books.

By Judith | January 30, 2013

There’s a story on the Huffington Post today about a young girl, Ishema Kane, in Germany who wrote to the newspaper, outraged at their defence of racist language in children’s books—specifically, Pippi Longstocking. As letters of outrage go, it’s pretty fabulous. I especially love this bit: “I find it totally shit that this word would…

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Death by 1.7 billion cuts

By Judith | September 13, 2012

There’s a scene in an early episode of Sex and the City that’s always been a favourite of mine. The girls are talking over a meal about—what else—men, and Charlotte says, in utter exasperation… I’ve been dating since I was 15 years old, I’m exhausted, where is he? I know how she feels. Only it’s…

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