Jolene Tan, Author at The F-Word

Weekly round up and open thread

Jolene Tan15 April 2014

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! ...

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“The difference is obvious if you’re paying attention”

Jolene Tan4 January 2014

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...

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State brutality against Cambodian workers

Jolene Tan3 January 2014

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...

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January’s guest blogger!

Jolene Tan2 January 2014

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...

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Alternate histories and alien textures

Jolene Tan15 December 2013

Jolene Tan rounds up the best science fiction and fantasy she has read in 2013 - from novels to short stories ...

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Help relief efforts in the Philippines

Jolene Tan14 November 2013

Following Typhoon Haiyan, the people of the Philippines need a lot of help. Everybody is desperate for food and water but it is those who need it most who ar...

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Weekly round-up and open thread

Jolene Tan28 October 2013

Your weekly dose of news and views ...

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New review: Susan Choi’s My Education

Jolene Tan10 August 2013

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 ...

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New review: the novels of Xiaolu Guo

Jolene Tan2 August 2013

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...

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New review: Gabriel Weston’s Dirty Work

Jolene Tan25 July 2013

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

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New interview: novelist Ruth Ozeki

Jolene Tan24 July 2013

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...

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Another face of marriage inequality

Jolene Tan10 June 2013

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...

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Weekly round-up and open thread

Jolene Tan3 June 2013

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...

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June’s guest bloggers

Jolene Tan2 June 2013

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...

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Good stuff – The Other Half of the Sky

Jolene Tan29 May 2013

Jolene Tan finds much of interest in this science fiction collection focused on "heroes who happen to be women" ...

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New review: The Other Half of the Sky

Jolene Tan29 May 2013

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...

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New review: Charlotte Roche’s Wrecked

Jolene Tan28 May 2013

"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 ...

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Blaming the Victim: a radio documentary

Jolene Tan15 May 2013

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

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