I follow Jonathan Fryer on Twitter, which is how I found out about MP Jim Fitzpatrick’s wedding debacle at the London Muslim Center. Basically, Fitzpatrick and his wife were invited to a Muslim wedding, walked out when they realized that it would be segregated by gender, and Fitzpatrick later followed up the incident by sayingContinue reading “Jim Fitzpatrick, gender segregation and multiculturalism as two-way street”
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Stuck inside of Kiev with the Charlotte blues again
I have a confession to make. I hate, HATE, the way autumn rushes into Ukraine, like a guest who shows up to early – and already filthy drunk. The blue of the sky gets deeper, the wind has a damp undertow. Autumn here smells like mushrooms and earth and every single bad thing I’ve everContinue reading “Stuck inside of Kiev with the Charlotte blues again”
Monday Music: the I love Helen & Shimalsky & Sasha edition
Because they introduce me to cool new music, and are willing to hear me out when I start babbling about the grand failure that is, at present, my life. This first song is like a corkscrew to my heart (thanks for the metaphor, Bob, sorry someone called the cops on you): Tennessee – Leatherbag OverContinue reading “Monday Music: the I love Helen & Shimalsky & Sasha edition”
A man’s 1st wife sparked the horrifying wedding inferno in Kuwait?
Hmm, well, this is what I read on Maktoob this morning, anyway. Now, how much you want to bet that the groom couldn’t give a rat’s ass about his first wife’s opinion when he decided to marry another woman? And that patriarchal society cheered on and approved his choice – because he, having been bornContinue reading “A man’s 1st wife sparked the horrifying wedding inferno in Kuwait?”
War against whores? Answer with heavy artillery!
Renegade drew my attention to this bit of sex worker news this morning. Like Ren, what I found particularly unnerving about the missive was its insistence that the phrase “sex worker” should be put in quotation marks, and the writers’ very obvious and apparent distaste for this line of work. Considering the fact that theContinue reading “War against whores? Answer with heavy artillery!”
Natalia A. 