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		<title>Open letter to Chris Grayling</title>
		<link>http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/open-letter-to-chris-grayling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Christopher Grayling, I&#8217;ve just read this Telegraph article (can&#8217;t find strength to find the actual piece you wrote). Let me start by saying I disagree with the concept of unpaid work experience full stop. I would love to say that my work experience thus far has been paid, but it hasn&#8217;t. HMRC&#8217;s reluctance to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=580&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When 38 degrees lost their way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not really sure what the last straw was for me, but I&#8217;ve been ignoring 38 degrees for a while now, having at first been a rabid supporter of everything they were doing. They have done some brilliant campaigns in the past, but more and more I started to noticed that what they were concerned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=577&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Matriliny != Matriarchal society</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading &#8220;Why being superior is never the answer&#8221; on the women in Meghalaya. I tried to publish this as a comment and for some reason it&#8217;s not working so I thought I&#8217;d expand and blog it. What really annoys me about the BBC piece (&#8220;Where women rule, and men are suffragettes&#8221; &#8211; which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=569&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m about as far from ok as it is possible to be, but thanks for asking</title>
		<link>http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/im-about-as-far-from-ok-as-it-is-possible-to-be-but-thanks-for-asking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinical depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post I really didn&#8217;t think I would need or want to have to write. I&#8217;ve been trying to keep things mainly under wraps, because, you know, that&#8217;s how British people deal with stuff. From the outset, though, I&#8217;ve always wanted to be totally honest about things on this blog &#8211; especially where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=554&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consent is sexy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/?p=516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alternative title: &#8220;I&#8217;ll want to have sex with you more if you want to have sex with me enthusiastically as well&#8221; &#8211; AKA &#8221;If you don&#8217;t want to have sex with me that&#8217;s fine but I won&#8217;t try and have sex with you anyway, because that would make me a rapist&#8221;. Consent is very sexy indeed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=516&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond social networking</title>
		<link>http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/beyond-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Media &#38; Informal Networks Last year, I carried out research into Twitter for my dissertation. It was based on the question, &#8220;How do people use Twitter to get news?&#8221; I&#8217;ve been a heavy user of Twitter since around November 2010, when I started tweeting about student protests and found that actually, people wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=547&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding power structures</title>
		<link>http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/understanding-power-structures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re going to study any isms, the first thing you should really look at is power structures &#8211; how society has traditionally structured itself and evolved. In feminism, this is often called the &#8220;Patriarchy&#8221; (rule of the father/male role models). In terms of intersectionality &#8211; which is about where feminism meets anti-racism, meets class [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=533&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thatcher&#8217;s unique brand of feminism</title>
		<link>http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/thatchers-unique-brand-of-feminism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curse whoever thought up The Iron Lady film. I have to put up with sycophants banging on about how great she is, and lefties banging on about how awful she is. She&#8217;s back in public consciousness, when I really would rather she wasn&#8217;t. So, the Guardian asked people, &#8220;Was Thatcher a feminist icon?&#8221; &#8211; one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=527&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of fascism in the UK</title>
		<link>http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/the-rise-of-fascism-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a distinct change in the air of late. It is the anticipation that something big is around the corner. The last two years has brought about significant change in the world. The Arab Spring of 2011 and the continuation of the waves of protest across the world – to the UK, the US, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=523&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to be a good feminist</title>
		<link>http://halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/how-to-be-a-good-feminist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Don&#8217;t tell others they are bad feminists, or how to be good feminists, because this makes you look like you reckon you are the arbiter of what makes feminism &#8216;right&#8217;. Which makes you look really arrogant. And arrogance isn&#8217;t an attractive or useful trait. 2. I lied about there being a second thing. That&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halftheworldiswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16889258&amp;post=513&amp;subd=halftheworldiswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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