Jolene Tan

New week, new links! As ever, linking isn't endorsement, and some links may contain disturbing content. If we've left anything out, pop it in the comments! ...

Disclaimer: I work full-time for the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE). However, this post is written entirely in my personal capacity and...

Cambodia police have today opened fire on striking garment workers, who are demanding that their minimum wage be increased to about £97 a month. Three have b...

Please extend a hearty welcome to Suze, the first monthly guest blogger for 2014. In her own words: I routinely uproot my life for travelling experiences I w...

Reviewer Katherine Wootton is thoroughly impressed by coming-of-age novel My Education by Susan Choi, in which narrator Regina Gottlieb recalls an intense love ...

I've always looked sadly on the fact that there are more wonderful books in existence than I will ever be able to get through in my lifetime. (Though I suppose...

Gabriel Weston's provocatively titled Dirty Work centres on the professional crisis faced by an abortion provider with a conflicted and complex relationship to ...

Writing is or ought to be an artful act, fiction in some sense literally artifice, but most of us are familiar with the feeling, coming away from novels, that w...

Credit where it's due: under this government, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill has been making its way through Parliament, addressing a grotesque injustic...

Monday is here and with it is green tea mochi. That is, I mean, links. (Sometimes I get confused when I'm peckish.) As ever, linking does not equate endorsem...

A new month means new guest bloggers - with thanks for all of May's contributions. In June we can look forward to perspectives from: Claire Askew - in her o...

Science fiction, for me, is a kind of background hum, a staple food. Asked to name my favourite novels I would gleefully list a dozen works of literary ficti...

"It's easier to give a blowjob than to make coffee." So opens the blurb of Wrecked, the second offering from Charlotte Roche. When I mentioned that we had a ...

In January I met Grace Chen, a Communications student at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who was working on a radio documentary exploring victi...