“I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter.” MotherFeminismFeministAdmirable Qualities Book:Tenement Kid Source: Tenement Kid
“When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great. I was proud of him. But what about women? He was out fighting the cause, and my mother was at home running the house. Where do women stand in the revolution? I’d seen Paine’s Rights of Man on his bookshelf. I wondered to myself, what about the rights of women?” FeminismLaborActivismInequalityLabourWomen EmpowermentWorking ClassWomen S Rights Book:Tenement Kid Source: Tenement Kid