Is her animosity for the colour justified, or is she dancing to the tunes of societal impositions? Are her choices truly hers?
Tag: internalised sexism
On Romance Novels and Coming to Terms with My Broken Feminism
Afters years of looking down at romance novels, a reading of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' made me sit up and realise my internalised misogyny.
Internalised Patriarchy: On Seeing My Brother in the Kitchen
When we were younger and my brother was stopped from doing something as minute as chopping vegetables, I internalised the oft-repeated lesson that 'it isn't right to have men …