Honestly almost charmed to see such retro sexism, reminds me of the simpler times… And if you want to read the post that got Claude all riled up: invisiblewomen.beehiiv.com/p/who-s-afra...
Caroline Criado Perez
@ccriadoperez.bsky.social
Writer, speaker, author of Invisible Women
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, Facebook apparently, which banned an ad for a play of A Room of One's Own over fears that this nearly 100 year old text might “encourage activism" and we can't have women thinking they might deserve equality can we 🤪 invisiblewomen.beehiiv.com/p/who-s-afra...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Plus, Cleveland! No, not the new Taylor Swift song...
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“Just because you believe that something “out there” is responsible for certain kinds of behaviour, it doesn’t mean that the brain is not involved.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is nothing scientific about The Great ADHD Myth? ‘documentary’ | Gina Rippon
Channel 4’s programme wastes a chance to ask important questions about how ADHD is diagnosed and treated, instead indulging in unscientific methods and conspiracy theories, says author Gina Rippon
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“Pemberton built a documentary around the belief that ADHD just isn’t that real anyway and, in any case, shouldn’t be treated with medication, but he failed to offer any kind of plan B for people suffering.” Very much this. I don’t have ADHD, but people I love do & this discourse is harming them
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2mo agowrote about that ADHD documentary, my own life as someone apparently living the perfect life of the unmedicated ADHD poster child, and why no amount of "oh but the system should change, not the people" doesn't work: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
Oh great. Another tech service I have to find an alternative for. And I stupidly thought this one was LESS bad than Google. How stupid do I feel now world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-rem...
As I remember London
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube...
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…and life has come full circle. I think we can all agree I can retire my Twitter account for good now 😎
Quite astonishing how awful the latest Apple updates are. For every single one I’ve had to waste so much time reverting everything to make the device usable again. And WHO LIKES LIQUID GLASS???
If you're thinking, "They don’t deserve that," consider what your goal is. Is it to keep your enemies as your enemies, or to help people change their minds? If it's the latter, we have to lower the social and psychological cost of admitting error. /5
Why do Japanese men think housework won’t be automated, but Japanese women think it will be? Why is female but not male income associated with owning a dishwasher in Japan? & why has OpenAI suddenly got all feminist on us about unpaid care work? newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/whats-that...
What's that coming over the hill is it a majestic AI Gift-Horse?
Ignoring women until it affects someone who matters
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niche request: does anyone have access to a hard copy of this paper which doesn’t seem to be available online? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14241740/
Something a bit different from me today. An ode to ageing like The Smashing Pumpkins…brought to you courtesy of the complicated but ultimately joyful feelings I experienced watching a band I’d worshipped in my teens perform live over 20yrs later newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/an-ode-to-...
Pray a moment of silence for Raynor Winn’s agent and editor this morning 😬
Niche complaint, but AI just spoilered Anna Karenina for me, so add that to the list of its many crimes
Last week I was honoured to be announced as the winner of the inaugural Unwin Award -- a new literary prize that recognises authors whose work has made a contribution to the world. This is the speech I gave making the case for human creativity newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/making-the...
I don’t believe in imposter syndrome - and in the latest edition of the Invisible Women newsletter, I explain why newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/the-perfec...
The Perfection Trap
“Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women?”
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What do witches and babies have to do with the backlash against DEI? This week’s Invisible Women newsletter is a rather sprawling essay that represents my attempt to answer exactly that question. newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/witches-an...
Witches and babies and DEI, oh my!
We shouldn’t have to make a business case for the business of being human
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If anyone is able to share a copy of the now offline FDA guidance on including underrepresented populations in clinical trials with me I’d be very grateful. Apparently ensuring medications work for women is part of the “woke” agenda now.
What if we've been talking about representation all wrong? When we talk about gender in leadership, we usually talk about female <under>representation. But what if we should instead be talking about male <over>representation?
Love to work in journalism, where you can deputy edit a political magazine, write multiple books, and write long investigative features, and a senior man in your industry still assumes you only write fluff because you’re a woman.
This is an excellent piece. I'm really pleased to see the growing pushback against meno-mongering of all kinds www.thecut.com/article/peri...
The Perimenopause Gold Rush
There’s a wave of new companies making big promises to millennial women. Is it all too good to be true?
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What’s the German for “finally finishing an interminable section of your book only to find that new international guidelines (the first in a decade) were released 3 days ago for the condition you’ve been writing about” 🫠
“The potential for these laws to be used in the furtherance of violence against women has been shamefully absent from the assisted dying debate.” I share @ccriadoperez.bsky.social concerns: it’s because I care about autonomy & dignity for all newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/they-just-...
“They just don’t want me over Christmas”: assisted dying and domestic abuse
Seventy-six per cent of palliative care doctors oppose a change in the law
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This is an extraordinary piece. If you thought you had an informed opinion on assisted dying, give this a look.
Caroline Criado Perez@ccriadoperez.bsky.social · 2y agoOn assisted dying & domestic violence: - 88% of “mercy” killers are male (& mercy killings are often very violent) - Men are overwhelmingly the survivors of “failed suicide pacts” - 76% of palliative care drs oppose change in law on assisted dying newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/they-just-...
On assisted dying & domestic violence: - 88% of “mercy” killers are male (& mercy killings are often very violent) - Men are overwhelmingly the survivors of “failed suicide pacts” - 76% of palliative care drs oppose change in law on assisted dying newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/they-just-...
“They just don’t want me over Christmas”: assisted dying and domestic abuse
Seventy-six per cent of palliative care doctors oppose a change in the law
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Credit to the people who spoke out here, and the BBC for doing this story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct
Ex-staff members say they saw one of the couple who runs the site kissing and touching a drunk colleague.
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Women are considered “old” much younger than their male counterparts: women are old at 30, whereas men don’t drop into the dreaded “old” category until they’re in their 50s. In this week's newsletter I've written about "women of a certain age"... newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/middle-cla...
Middle-class women of a certain age
it is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
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Whenever I read about this case I think of the Greer quote about how women don't realise how much men hate us and I think, it's not quite right. We know, we just can't bear to think about it most of the time. Devastating account by @victoriapeckham.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/5dee...
I sat in court at the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial. This is what I saw
Gisèle Pelicot became a symbol of courage when she waived her anonymity to attend the trial of her husband and 50 other men accused of raping her — and ignited fierce debate about the law surrounding ...
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So here’s a very cool thing I’ve just been told about! This is a still from a Chinese film, released in the UK today (US release was yesterday). It’s a feminist buddy comedy called Her Story and there’s a scene where one of the protagonists talks about Invisible Women on a live stream!
I can't say that I'm exactly looking forward to this event as I have very little experience chairing so I'm slightly nervous about that, but I'm certainly looking forward to hearing what the panellists have to say! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safer-lond...
Safer London for All: Delivering Women's Safety Audits
Discover how Women’s Safety Audits can help transform London’s public spaces. Hear what key experts and community researchers have learnt.
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