OneVoiceIfreedom
Having deleted this post accidentally last week, let’s have a another try now.
This blog is to announce some important changes, for me anyway, as to how my posts will continue to be written and organised. Approx six months ago, I set up a new blog OnevoiceIfreedom to highlight, research and write about my deep interests in human rights, [...]
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Blog Changes
Posted in Change, Commitment, Development, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, Learning, Modern society, Personal Growth, Role of women, Skills, Thoughts, Time, Women, Writing, tagged Blog changes., Diary, ponderings on May 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I Didn’t Know
Posted in Christianinty, Debate, God, Human Rights, Law, Role of women, Women, sex, tagged Abuse, C19th, cauterisation, Church, clitoridectomy, cruelty, Discovery, Female Circumcison, Female Genital Cutting, Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, gynaecology, Individual Expression, Madness, Mania, Masturbation, Mutilation, repression, Sexual Being, Sexuality, society, Torture, uterus, vulva, Zero Tolerance on July 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The other day I made a disturbing discovery. Sitting on a train, my book title was kept well hidden from public view, as it was held face down in my lap. I certainly did not want to attract attention or raised eyebrows. The subject matter being of such a sensitive nature. Neither did I, nor do [...]
Motherhood and Sisterhood of women
Posted in Change, Commitment, Debate, Home, Human Rights, Liberation, Modern society, Personal Growth, Relationships, Role of women, Skills, Thoughts, Women, achievement, families, feminist, goals, tagged Birth, Carer, Celebration, Children, Difference, Freedom, Friends, Friendship, lives, Love, Maternity, Mothers, NewLife, Pregnancy, Sisterhood, Women's InternationalDay., YouTube on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This short YouTube video is just perfect, as an accompaniment, for my last two blogs and celebrates Women’s international Day 2008.
Where ever you are and what ever you have done, I hope it has been a time to reflect on who you are as a woman. And if you are a man reading [...]
Mother’s Day Appeal
Posted in Change, Debate, Development, Health, Human Rights, Role of women, Women, families, tagged Female Genital Mutilation, Fistula, FORWARD, Mother's Day appeal on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was mother’s Day and I have received an e-mail correspondence from a group I belong to and support. FORWARD (The Foundation of Women’s Health Research and Development) promoting the abolition of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM), early forced marriage, and to help raise awareness and treatment of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula(VVF) and recto-vaginal fistula (RVF).
This is the following information, which I have used [...]
Books, Oppression and Women
Posted in Art, Change, Debate, Health, Human Rights, Liberation, Men, Modern society, Relationships, Religion, Role of women, Thoughts, Women, Writing, families, sex, tagged Adultery, Afghanistan, Asne Seierstad, Books, Burka, Crime, Domestic, Family, fidelity, Home, Honour, lives, Marriage, Non-fiction, Novel, oppression, Punishment, Review, Stoning, The BooksellerOf Kabul on February 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A review of the book The bookseller of Kabul,
by Asne Seierstad.
I would like to acknowledge athinkingmans own blog on this book, and am grateful for his review in bringing this work to life and to my knowledge of it.
As soon as I had discovered this books existence, I knew this was the next read for me, [...]
Zero Tolerance for Women
Posted in Change, Debate, Health, Human Rights, Liberation, Modern society, Role of women, Uncategorized, tagged 6thFebruary, Abuse, Africa, Awareness, Childabuse, ChildProtection, DamageHealth, FemaleCircumcision, femaleCutting, FemaleGenitalMutialtion, glass, Harm, HealthComplications, HeathConcerns, InternationalZeroToleranceDay, Knives, Pain, RazorBlades, Risk, Ritual, Tradition, Trauma, Un-Sterlised on February 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The 6th February 2008 is International Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation(also known as Female Circumcision)For more information as to what this means in reality to many women worldwide visit:
http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) are three words not heard of to many and a silent subject few talk about . Highly sensitive and extremely complex ,this [...]
Happiness
Posted in Change, Debate, Environment, Liberation, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Role of women, Skills, Thoughts, Time, families, lonelyness, tagged Body, Depression, Elderly, Enquiry, Happiness, Image, Life, Mid-life Crisis, Middle-age, Old age, Opportunities, Quality, Research, self-esteem, Times Newspaper on January 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
How can we capture that feeling called happiness?
Like a flower’s seed head it can be blown away so easily by the wind.
One moment it is there, the next it has vanished into thin air.
The clouds of pain can gather quickly with the rising storm,
to dampen our hearts and extinguish that sweet feeling of pleasure.
How then do [...]
New housewife verses Old housewife.
Posted in Change, Children, Home, Liberation, Modern society, Relationships, Role of women, families, feminist, lonelyness, tagged 20th Century, 21st Century, Article, Blog, Blogging, Book, Can any mother help me? Jenna Bailey, Change, Children, Chores, Comparison, House, Housewife's, Housework, Isolation, New housewife, Old Housewife, Work, Writing on October 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I recently read a newspaper article highlighting the modern world of the new housewife. No longer perceived to be somebody tied to the home all day carrying out the household chores, these new generation of housewife’s are busy people. With packed diaries and personal trainers they also are great bloggers and write intelligent and thoughtful articles [...]
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