Lola Adesioye, Author at The F-Word

The Western woman’s body is still subject to regulation

Lola Adesioye25 August 2009

Men and women in the West tend to have strong opinions about the attire worn by Muslim women. In the media as well as in private many bemoan the fact that Musli...

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Women’s preference for curves is nothing to be happy about

Lola Adesioye22 July 2009

A new study by a food company has shown that British women now prefer to be curvy than thin. Apparently Kate Moss’ physique is much less desirable than th...

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Time to call out another privilege……

Lola Adesioye30 April 2009

And of course the privilege I am speaking of, is Thin Privilege. Edited to add: Anji from Shut up, Sit down, has also blogged about Thin Privilege, and you can ...

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Fat is the new Folk Devil

Lola Adesioye18 April 2009

So the Department of Health is continuing it's relentless assault upon those of us, who are just bad citizens for not being automatically skinny. The latest cam...

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Maternity leave- will this help?

Lola Adesioye6 April 2009

The BBC recently reported on proposed changes to maternity leave, designed, apparently to make it more equal. These changes, would see paid maternity leave cut ...

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Porn, Parents and the responsibility argument.

Lola Adesioye1 April 2009

So like Laura I've been watching the Channel 4 Sex Education Show. Whilst I found Tuesday nights installment troubling due to a) the overwhelming and unbearable...

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The whole Jacqui Smith thing…….

Lola Adesioye31 March 2009

So, I'm uber excited to be guest blogging here and I've spent the past few days panicking about what on earth my first post should be about. Then the whole row ...

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