Annelouisekershaw365
I’m Anne Louise Kershaw, Music Editor of Blankpages and Manchester's Finest.
This is my blog where I write about popular culture, specialising in music, fashion, theatre, gender & equality issues.
Every time I blog I post a picture because i'm obsessed with my camera.
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Recent Posts
- Miss Julie at The Royal Exchange – Electrically charged and beautifully bleak
- Inside Exhibition at Blank Space
- No Ceremony – just music worth making a fuss about
- Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer collection in Selfridges – not fast fashion, but trashy/clashy style!
- The Gospel According to….. (Part 1) – 30th Anniversary of The Smiths at the Holden Gallery
- The Slow Show Brother EP – both summer and shade and beautifully rueful
- Ren Harvieu & the album launch at Matt and Phred’s Manchester
- Saturday Night And Sunday Morning at The Royal Exchange – exhilarating, sharp and real!
- It was The Slow Show – and delightfully so!
- Women affected by the cuts still have ‘Bags of Attitude’
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Tag Archives: Sexism
113 – Jessie J, the Mail Online and the issue of warpaint
113/252 Seeing as though this month’s fash mags are full of outfits and styles I actually find rather cool, I am left with no alternative but to head elsewhere for my read and rant desires. This sick need, like that … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Gender & Equality
Tagged Daily Mail, Fash mags, Jessie J, Mail Online, Make-up, Sexism, Slap, unouomedudem Flask, Warpaint
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95 – John Lennon never imagined a day when we didn’t write about women’s bodies!
95/270 When John Lennon wrote Imagine, he offered us plenty of food for thought, and lots to think about, and loads of other utopian style clichés that generally seem simultaneously both a really good idea and pretty much unattainable. You … Continue reading
76 – I Hollaback! Or rather I feel awkward and venomous
76/289 Making the most of the sunshine, yesterday after working, me and my partner decided we’d get kitted up and go off for a decent mountain bike up in the peaks. It’s great living so close (well 45 mins away) … Continue reading
59 – International Women’s Day mainly preaches to the converted
59/306 It’s not only International Women’s Day, but today actually marks the centenary of International Women’s Day. That’s right, for 100 years the world has been celebrating the achievements of women and acknowledging their contribution towards all that is good … Continue reading
Posted in Gender & Equality
Tagged Asleep in the Back, Christmas, Collapse into Now, Daniel Craig, Financial control, Harrasment, I Holla Back, International Women's Day, James Bond, Jokes, Judi Dench, Meals, Pancake Day, R.E.M, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sexism, Shrove Tuesday, Valentine's Day, We are equals
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38 – My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding – It seems we’re all missing the point!
38/327 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. My main issue was how the fuss being made over the heavy-weight wedding dresses, porno outfits and spray tans was in fact tackily glossing over the … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Gender & Equality, Pop Culture, Reviews, TV
Tagged dresses, Gypsies, Lady Behave, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Roxy Freeman, Sexism, Spray Tan, the Independent, The Vaccines, Travvelers, Tv
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27 – Whips and chains excite Rihanna but a public flogging hurts!
27/338 All around the twittersphere today was discussion of Rihanna’s new video S&M, the fourth single from her album Loud. Many people were bitching about it, yet they had all watched it a good couple of times to enable them … Continue reading
Posted in Gender & Equality, Music, Photography, Pop Culture
Tagged Best of Bowie, Britney Spears, Davie Bowie, Erotica, Hit Me Baby One More Time, Justify My Love, madonna, Morals, Rihanna, S&M, Sexism, Sexual Issues, twitter, Video, youtube
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25 – My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
25/340 I know at the moment everyone has something to say about Big Fat Gypsy Wedding currently being aired on a Tuesday night on channel 4. The show claims to offer a revealing insight into the lives and ways of … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Gender & Equality, Image, Photography, Pop Culture, Reviews, TV
Tagged Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Channel 4, Feminism, Gypsey Wedding, Holy Communion, Men, Sexism, Wedding, Wedding Cake, Wedding Dress, Women
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