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The Gender Police: A Diary
When Ros Ball and James Millar’s son was born in 2010 they instantly felt people treated him differently to his big sister. Inspired by the 1980's best-selling diary 'There's a Good Girl', they started to tweet about the differences they experienced. What began as an attempt to retain their sanity in a gender obsessed world became a life changing experiment about gender identity.
Ros Ball & James Millar, , 10 July 2015
Interview: The Gender Police: a diary
Through their Twitter account
@GenderDiary Ros Ball and her partner James have been cataloguing the drip-drip-drip of gendered messages their children receive. With the e-book of the project out today, Ros explained to us how the project came about, and what they hope it’s achieved.
Let Toys Be Toys, 7 July 2015
Does London Really Want To Be A 24-Hour City?
The forthcoming 24-hour tube will make London more accessible for night time culture, but restrictive licensing and development policy seem to clash with that sentiment?
Richard Brown,
Londonist, 24 June 2015
Happiness: A modern malaise
Two enlightening new books explore the miserable rise of the happiness industry.
Kathryn Ecclestone,
spiked, 15 May 2015
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