Lynne Miles, Author at The F-Word

Welcome to our guest bloggers for March

Lynne Miles28 February 2011

Following our recent call for guest bloggers, we're pleased to announce that we have lined up some fabulous ones! We're planning to have two each month from no...

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Weekly round-up and open thread: what we missed

Lynne Miles24 January 2011

As usual, here's a round-up of stuff we haven't had chance to talk about in full yet. Consider the comments box below an 'open thread' to discuss these links or...

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Reminder: guest blogging for TFW

Lynne Miles22 January 2011

Hi everyone, just a reminder, following on from my post in December, that we're looking for volunteer guest bloggers to fill slots for the first half of this ye...

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Be our guest

Lynne Miles22 December 2010

About this time last year we put out a call for guest bloggers to bring new voices and perspectives to the site. We had a fantastic response and we loved havin...

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NUS Protest outside Lynne Featherstone’s office 8th December

Lynne Miles2 December 2010

We've just had an email from Olivia Bailey, the NUS national women's officer, calling for women to protest outside the office of the Lib Dem Minister for Wome...

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It’s Strictly Protest Time! Come to a Pro-Choice Demo!

Lynne Miles18 November 2010

I've just seen the following from Abortion Rights, and thought it was worth flagging up: On Thursday 25th November, former Conservative MP, anti-abortion activ...

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(Late) weekly round-up

Lynne Miles3 November 2010

Sorry for the lateness of our weekly round-up, but here it is. Feel free to use the comments space below as an open thread if you want to comment on any of the...

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Women – time to down tools!

Lynne Miles2 November 2010

Today is Equal Pay Day 2010. Despite the Equal Pay Act of 1970, full time working women on average are still paid less than full time working men by around...

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Jewish/Israeli ‘rape by deception’ case: more than meets the eye

Lynne Miles6 September 2010

I don' t know whether readers remember reading a month or two ago about a case in Israel where an Arab man was convicted of "rape by deception" of a Jewish woma...

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It’s A Level results day!

Lynne Miles19 August 2010

It's a really big day for lots of teenagers as they get their A Level results today, and I hope all our readers got what they were hoping for this morning (or n...

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Weekly round-up and open thread: what we missed

Lynne Miles2 August 2010

Here's just a handful of things we've noticed but not had time to post about this week. If you know of any more you want to let people know about, or just fancy...

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Coming up: 10 years of TFW: How should we celebrate?

Lynne Miles30 July 2010

So 2011 will be the tenth anniversary of Catherine setting up The F Word, which we think is so fantastic we want to celebrate it somehow. But how? Ideas we've f...

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Feminists: Why you should join Labour to vote Diane

Lynne Miles15 July 2010

Diane Abbott is standing for the leadership of the Labour party. She's the only candidate with a record of activism for social justice. You may not realise you ...

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Women! Know your place!

Lynne Miles24 June 2010

New pronouncement from the National Institute for Heath and Clinical Excellence (NICE): all pregnant women should be routinely breath-tested for carbon monoxide...

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Abbottmania?

Lynne Miles23 June 2010

I’ve been keeping up with the Labour leadership elections recently. We’ve talked about how until Abbott threw her hat in the ring it was a race...

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£1,500 raised: half way there!

Lynne Miles11 June 2010

We've just received a donation from a kind reader that takes us an amazing half way to our fund-raising target of £3,000 in less than two weeks, the majority of...

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SATC2 fail

Lynne Miles4 June 2010

*note: trying not to drop any major spoilers, but if you literally don't want to know anything about this film before you've seen it, look away now!* I went to...

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Our first £300! Thank you!

Lynne Miles2 June 2010

Just now we received a donation which tipped us over the £300 mark, bringing us one tenth of the way to our fund-raising goal, marking the first point on our fu...

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