The VOICE JOURNAL
Rants. Plus poems about rage, motherhood, politics, grief, awakening and the refusal to be quiet. New work posted as it happens. Read, share, feel something.
Within Living Memory, part four (2036): You Can Be Anything You Like
This is part four of four, the final part in the Within Living Memory series. Part one was entirely true, sourced throughout, and is what has actually happened in real life. Parts two to four are fiction, although everything in them has happened in real life.
Within Living Memory, part three (2029): Head of the Household
Parts two, three and four are fiction, however everything that happens to Hannah in the story has already happened to real women somewhere in the world. On each of these occasions I've put the country and the year that it happened in brackets, and everything is fully sourced at the bottom of the blog.
Within Living Memory, part two (2028): And It Could Happen Here
Part one was all true. Parts two, three and four are fiction, with one caveat: every single thing that happens to Hannah in this story has actually happened, to real women, in real countries. The only thing I've made up is the order and the dates.
Within Living Memory, part one (2021): How Afghan Women Lost Everything in Three Years
I was listening to a podcast at work the other day and it stopped me dead in my tracks. Three years is all it took to go from relative freedom to being muted and erased. This is part one, and it's all true.
Because. We.
Because I am an English woman,
and I care what happens there.
Because what they do with women’s rights
ripples through the global air.
Because in the land of the free,
they’ve locked the clinic door…
