https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/10202/anni-donaldson-it-time-scotland-paid-new-piper Our Celtic Connections columnist, Anni Donaldson, explores the politics of gender in Scottish traditional music WITH the chants of a women’s anti-Trump demonstration booming outside Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall, it was an auspicious moment to start a new conversation about gender and Scottish traditional music. Judging by the audience’s response to the lively discussion …
Category Archives: Gender inequality
How women leaders shaped policy for women
#indyref discourse highlighted sexism
This article was written for The National Saturday 29 August 2015 I was delighted, and genuinely surprised, to be announced the winner of the inaugural Write to End Violence Against Women Awards in 2013. Since then, Scotland has witnessed a dramatic shift in its political landscape which included some devastating critiques of mainstream media and its …
Time to finish off Page 3 – and tackle #everydaysexism – by handing out a few ‘prizes’
This article was originally published in The Conversation on 10 December 2014 by Anni Donaldson https://theconversation.com/time-to-finish-off-page-3-and-tackle-everydaysexism-by-handing-out-a-few-prizes-35351 The contortions of The Sun newspaper against mounting opposition to its notorious Page 3 topless women would be laughable if they did not represent a much wider problem. With even glamour queen Katie Price apparently throwing in the towel …
Scotland’s shocking levels of child poverty revealed
Shocking levels of child poverty are affecting the lives of over 200,000 Scottish children. With numbers set to rise by 100,000 in the next five years, figures compiled for the Campaign to End Child Poverty reveal a disturbing UK-wide Child Poverty Map. Across Scotland one in five children are living in hardship while one in …
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Why I am voting YES!
With three maybe four sleeps to go before we know the result of the Scottish referendum I can barely contain my excitement. I am finding it difficult to concentrate on anything else – and like most people, most women especially, there is much to be got through in a day. However there is no other …
Scotland leads UK on preventing violence against women, but its new policy is still incomplete
This article first appeared in The Conversation 2 July 2014 Read the full article here
Another Post from A Women’s Place
The March of the Undecideds? Scottish Women #indyref Another Post from A Women’s Place http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/west%20dunbartonshire Recent polls suggest that a woman’s place is rather further from the ballot box than is good for them ahead of September’s independence referendum. By all accounts, they could be spending more of their precious time studying political form and …
Channel 4 Strippers – Reality Show Bites
I GlasgowAnni passes up chance to appear on Channel 4’s Strippers Walking with friends on Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday night recently, we were stopped by two enthusiastic young people, one shouldering a heavy video camera, asking if they could interview us for a new Channel Four documentary about lap dancing clubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh …
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