THE BIKES

Come down to this all dayer film and warehouse party this week, gonna be dope!!! Launching the second issue of FIXED MAG and showing the European premiere of Macaframa, will be fun day all round!

I BEEN THE NASTIEST ONE SINCE BIRTH

ROXY COTTONTAIL IN DA HOUSE!

GIRL POWER/LISA SIMPSON

RIDING WITH CHARLET!

Kindest Regards,
Sharmadean Reid

WEDNESDAY WAH GHETTO CHICK MORNING

LIL KIM, DA BRAT AND FOXY BROWN - three of the nastiest chicks the 90s has ever seen!!!

SUMMMMMERRRTIME!!! check out lil kim in the intro to this video....

EXPERIENCE HAS MADE ME RICH...

MY FRIEND CHARLET DUBOC

is cool as fuck. I havent seen her for ages even though I could throw a stone through her house window. Come see me baby, where are you?!?!!

GRITS

GRACE COMES TO VISIT

TUNEAGE

I wasn't expecting you to, but you did it good.

True Cali soul, that intro kills me!!!!... i wish it was summer again....

SEXY TIME

Record covers were an early source of inspiration in how to be a hottie while I was growing up...Lumberjack shirt and stonewash jeans - check, leopard print shirt - check, white vest, denim hotpants and black boots, check....Some looks are just timeless....

GIRL POP

THE BEST MUSIC EVER.....

TWO CRUSHES

ROMEO + JULIET

Just watched this 90s gem, combining my favourite religious iconography with my fave city (LA)...

MORE STUDYING - ITS ALL I DO AT THE MO....

Hello

Just a reminder that we still have some places available for our study
day on women's magazines this Saturday, 22 November.

Please see attached for more details - it would be great if you could
forward this on to any students who might be interested or display the
flyer in a prominent place. If you have any queries please contact me
on the number below.

Best wishes

Laura Hurley

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Laura Hurley
Audience Development

The Women's Library
25 Old Castle Street
E1 7NT

0207 320 3509

SCHOOL TRIP??

1st Global Conference
Evil, Women and the Feminine

Friday 1st May - Sunday 3rd May 2009
Budapest, Hungary

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine issues surrounding the conjunction between
evil and the feminine. In many cultures women have
been long suspected as the source of sundry human
miseries, however basic to society they may be. At
the same time as ideals of purity and dedication
to family have been exalted and feminine beauty
lauded, women have been viewed as embodying
sinister forces of evil. Mistrusted as
seductive and beguiling, women are also often
thought of as vengeful, manipulative and even
malevolent. In grappling with our understanding of
what it is to be 'evil', the project aims to shine
a spotlight on this dark area of the human
condition and explore the possible sources of the
fear and resentment of women.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to the following themes:

~ Evil Women and Feminine Evil
~ Representing and Misrepresenting the Female
~ Motherhood; Monstrous Motherhood
~ Monstrous Births and Infanticide
~ Matriarchy / Matricide
~ Devious Sexuality and Feminine Perversions
~ Women and the Abject
~ Menstruation, Castration
~ Fears and Myths: Feminine Blood
~ Anthropological Perspectives
~ Historical Perspectives
~ The Evil Woman in Literature
~ Psychoanalytic perspectives: Vagina Dentata etc
~ Sexualizing the Female or Evil Objectification
~ Jezebel, Delilah, Lilith, Harpies and the Femme
Fatale
~ The Bitch
~ Women and Power
~ Beauty as threatening or evil
~ Portrayals of Evil Women
~ Fantasy
~ Mythology
~ Vampires, Witches and Sirens
~ Case Studies

Papers will also be considered on any related
theme. 500 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 9th January 2009. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper
should be submitted by Friday 10th April 2009.

500 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract

We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did
not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Hub Leader
Project Co-Leader
School of English, Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland
E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net

Stephen Morris
Hub Leader
Independent Scholar,
New York, USA
E-mail: smmorris58@yahoo.com

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: ewf@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting. All
papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and
presented at the conference will be published in
a themed hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/ewf/ewf.html

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/ewf/ewf1/cfp.html
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IN BED WITH PAULA

I cycled past the Big Breakfast House the other day and floods of nostalgia and memories of one of the best tv shows ever came back to me. Remember On the Bed With Paula? When I see what a silly, talentless little girl Peaches Geldof is, I'm almost unsure she is from the same seed. One the Bed was brilliant, interesting subjects, frank and honest interviewing and Paula being cheeky, inquiring and deliciously flirty. And the set was amazing! Those colours are burning my retinas!!





Bring back Big Breakfast I say! When did Channel 4 start hiring children as TV presenters instead of experienced, intelligent people who are gonna make us know more about their interviewees than we can read in heat or Grazia...

AMAZING DANNI MINOGUE INTERVIEW - she looks like a chola...

SHIRLEY BASSEY

THE INFAMOUS MICHAEL HUTCHENCE INTERVIEW...

KYLIE

Paula Yates was a gem, she reminds me of fun, frippy 80s/90s London.

TWO DEAD FRIDA'S

Halloween this year was amazing! Meghan and I went as two dead Frida Khalo's. Ben Rayner got the best pics of the night.





Unfortunatly I went home before the whole Get Naked phase happened!

And then Bruno Bayley took these....

GRACE IS HOME!

MOCHINONLINE

Anyone who knows me knows that I love Moschino. I went to the website looking for a Percy Piggy bank today and the website is AMAZING!!!! SOOOOOOO COOOOL. Check it out!

CHECK HER OUT

Check out one of my best friend Jenny's new blog. Always the brains behind the operations, she's got a really informative cultural taste, especially in music and graphics. Take a looksie.

RESTLESSNESS

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.”

Anais Nin

CONFINES AND LIMITATIONS

These are the things that make you creative. Come to the A3 exhibition next week to see my submission at Notting Hill Arts Club. Click the flyer for more details. It's gonna be the cream of Londons art future.



Crystal Vision and GETME! present…

A3: AN EXHIBITION OF CONSTRAINED PROPORTIONS
Sunday 16th November ’08
4pm till 1am.

Free Entry

Notting Hill Arts Club

Announcing the latest exciting collaborative visual arts & music event from West London’s counter-generic culture-mongers GetMe!

These creative minds are locking horns with acclaimed South London-based collective Crystal Vision, who will grace the Notting Hill Arts Club with their fascinating arcane ethos & myriad of artistic talents & influences, to curate an exclusive one-off event…

SORRY

...i've been away. i'm writing an essay on War and Propaganda at the moment. Its taking up a bit of my time...



I'm in NYC next Monday to Friday, hit me up if you're around...

DIZZEE RASCAL FOR PRIME MINISTER

Watch here

FINALLY

I've been following the elections so closely that it ruined my "shock and surprise" cry I had planned when I heard Obama won. It was so obvious he was gonna win. Well done Mr Obama! I've heard a rumour that there's gonna be some change...

NIKE X MTTM LAUNCH

The Nike X Married To The Mob collab (dunk, shoe and tee) launch is this Saturday at the 1948 Store in London. I've been told there will be extra special treats for MTTM fans. It'll be a nice girls event with cakes and nails! Hope to see you there!

VANSVANSVANS

If I was a boy I would wear Van Syndicate and various other Japanese labels all day long. Come and check out this brilliant line at Slam City in few weeks. Put it in your diary! There'll be shoes, art, drink and hot boys....