Month: April 2008
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On the road again
mocking the myth that the motorcar offers freedom… A good start to the day. Tommy emails to say his print is on sale in an internet gallery specialising in bringing together artists who want to sell and customers who want to buy but don’t know how to find each other. (And this just a week…
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Between a rock and a hard place
I took a second look, “That is plastic isn’t it?” The answer was swift and smart, “Yes, no man was hurt in the making of this display.” Setting up my stall at the Student Festival of Learning in Edinburgh’s Telford College yesterday I soon realised that I was a bit short of merchandise. Thanks to…
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For the sake of dignity and democracy in Zimbabwe
“Ordinary women cannot afford sanitary wear. We are using old pieces of cloth or newspapers. Consequently we’re suffering the loss of our dignity and serious infections, in some cases leading to infertility. Many women are facing violence from their husbands who believe these infections to be sexually transmitted.” Thabitha Khumalo, 2006. Today, when I signed…
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Woke up this morning
Too early, even the blackbirds building a nest outside the window are not up yet. I wake at 4 am with my head full of stuff, odd random surreal sounding stuff but it wasn’t a dream, someone actually said, “It’s time we gave this prehistoric plant a voice,” at one of the meetings I was…