Throwing Enough Mud, Housework and Writing about Sex
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Through Enough Mud
Leyla Josephine is running online writing workshops that “celebrate play, experimentation, community and failure.” She told Bella: “I want writing to be seen as accessible as other forms of art, like in painting there’s a sense you don’t have to be talented to enjoy it! I want writing to be like that. I want to make space where people can come and play with language, with story, with verse. Yes, we learn, we hone our skills but we also play and experiment and I think that undermines the strict and oppressive idea that writing is only for the elite. We had a really successful first term with over 50 students. I’m looking forward to see what the summer term brings!”
There’a bunch of different courses available from one-off courses, to autobiographical writing to a Monday moring writing club, all the details are HERE. More about Leyla HERE.
Bold Type
The Bold Type Fellowship is a journalism training opportunity for “women in Scotland who want to write about sex, relationships, and gender with depth, care, and confidence”. This free, 9-month training programme (running from June 2025 to March 2026) rn by Pillow Talk Scotland.
All the details HERE.
The Return of Housework
Why does the burden of housework still fall on women?
We’re really looking forward to hosting Emma Casey to discuss her new book The Return of the Housewife on 9th April…
Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is glamorous. Housework is key to a happy family. Housework shows that you care. Housework is women’s work.
Social media is flooded with images of the perfect housewife. TikTok and Instagram ‘cleanfluencers’ produce endless photos and videos of women cleaning, tidying and putting things right. Figures such as Marie Kondo and Mrs Hinch have placed housework, with its promise of a life of love and contentment, at the centre of self-care and positive thinking. And yet housework remains one of the world’s most unequal institutions. Women, especially poorer women and women of colour, do most low-paid and unpaid domestic labour. In The Return of the Housewife, Emma Casey asks why these inequalities matter and why they persist after a century of dramatic advances in women’s rights.
Join Emma Casey to discuss all of the above at Lighthouse Books, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh at 7pm, Wednesday 9 April, all the details HERE.
