by Sarah Tinsley | May 7, 2018 | Blog
Every time I’ve travelled before (and by that I mean more than a holiday) I’ve been on my own, or in the presence of other women. Living in China, travelling round South East Asia, in Botswana for a month, I was never with a man. We’ve just arrived in Santiago, and...
by Sarah Tinsley | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog
Genderspecs – changing gendered perspectives, one blog at a time.It’s always a joyous moment when I receive an email telling me that the next podcast episode of ‘The Guilty Feminist’ is out. This time the theme was ‘Taking Up Space,’ and how women don’t tend to do it...
by Sarah Tinsley | Oct 7, 2016 | Reviews
I know I’m massively behind the times in reading this, but as I’m currently working on a similar narrative, several people recommended this graphic novel as a good place to look at how a gender-imbalanced dystopia played out. Interesting ideas, some lessons learned,...
by Sarah Tinsley | Jul 31, 2016 | Reviews
There’s something immensely satisfying in a novel that appears to start out one way, and then takes you somewhere you weren’t expecting.Initially, A Little Life appears to be a well-written if slightly superficial account of a group of young men in New York. The prose...
by Sarah Tinsley | Jun 10, 2016 | Reviews
Personally, I’m not a fan of the word ‘genius.’ It’s derived from ‘genie.’ The idea that a little imp comes and sits on your shoulder and gives you an idea, and that’s where your fantastic work comes from. To me, that detracts from the graft, the inspiration, the...
