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in every country, brt it will
rcnder most women invistbl€.
This is b!(au* a lar$ number of
wohen will retister tnemselves a
housewives, and ar ruch are unpaid.
This means that they wonl
count in the srarinics on natio.al
income. flarilyn Warint. aurhor,
New Zealand MP lahd all-round
fab woman) wants every woman
in ev€ry colnffy to list hersell d
a manalini exec utive. She sayi l
dont know any housewives, but
I do know $me reddkably
talented women. ln one day
they 6n be dietici.ns, nurs€5,
gard€ners, Ghault€uri (etc
et )r'. The problem is that none
of this is paid work. ln Australia
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A: How d you think yolr parents feell
A: Jlst about you gettins older, your sister...
Ay:The thing is..my dad! much more laid back, I
hean it wouldnl exacrly plee him ro hear we
werent virgins, but he knows he ha to accept it
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A: What d you thonk to! l] do m lhe iiriurel
Ay: Since l ws 13 lve written a loi.
Ayr I always lived in London.
My parents are both l.lauritius.lly dadl the oldest
or l0 and always had responsibilily for them. He
w6 in Brirain for edocation, and lookine after 5
brorhes in a little flat. Andthen hewentback, met
mymum. they got married, and.amF over, They
had an aransed marriase. She was 17. Her mlm
had died :nd left her lookins after loads of kids,
6 shte6. and then she came over here and found
her$lf lookint after loads of blokesl lmagine, to
have lived with 7 sisters, iand I brother who was
like licde, you know)to come over and llnd 5 blokes
rangint from 16 to abou! 24. She s always been
kind otfunny abour men anyway..she doesn t reel
comfortable with men unless she thinks ot them
d brorhere or litde sons. Except her husband
I wd alMys under the shadow of my siste. .nd
when lwas l3 I was toins throuth this real awful
stage. Screaming alll the time. having hysterrical
shysterical s< re am ing matc hes with my mum, thinkingI6nttettintanyattention,
m/sisterhadexi
ams, and'd jus! broke the nes about her boyfriend
d I sst tettins on with mI school friends. They
we.e s boy orientated, I .ouldi\ stand. Tney were
mostly friends trom my pridary school, I wasn t
. i.rerested in wh rher did out wd too fr'8h@rec
to 8o out and ljid n€wpeoPle. And then it tllson
ofchanged around l4 because I was encouraged
we had these councilloB at school- and because I
w6 into politi.s and didn t want to do stuPidthings
eymore. Especially lwbted to do rhings to do with
women. $ lw6 encouraged by nycouncillorwho
saidyou.e bored, to o!! and phone women s cen'
ffes etc and llnd somelhins. A: Thatl good they
At: Yerh thel dont aiymore thoush. Cotbacks
A:l like your earrints,
Ay: ann€y I thou8ht Brillis! it'll be my oM thint
ou! of my shter's shadow". Bur I was Phonint
round aid coulnt find anythint, I wa Settint
really dissilLusioned and then I phoned Camden
Womens Cenre They lold me about Shockins
A: Oh, I ve heard ol that.
Ayr Yes.Gis!d). Ako I won a wdtng comPerition
and got a lot of atlention. photoSraPhe6, fu$ it
ws fun. So l tot involved in shockint Pink.lMnted
to do a matarne so it was tood. There w6 4 of
us, me , Rebecca lo and you antie. And PeeoPle
who answered a blurb tbout us ln Just I 7 .me alont
but didnt s!ay. We did loads of things. And itt arom
Shocking Pink that I really came imo mI own h
to a poii. when you re not doint what you
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waiito do. So throuth ShockinS Pink linterview_
ed women in media. re went to Shef1ield and met
the shefii€ld Young Lesbians, it wd just 30 8ood.
I w woried that SP Mnl .eally 6 youis s l'd ve
liked it !o be, because the younter ones who tot
involved just didn\ hare lhe time to 8et as mlch
involved. ThaCs why I reallytave it !P when I had
my exams, and aiso you lot .lt had yout
tlke3andth.t' lt was too lflrch to
h.ndle redly. Tha!'s why I like !o 3end
SP stuff. And aho I w6 a bit worried about the
fact that it w6 mostly lesbiasns
A: You were pissed off at one point that you
@nred 5P to ter away f.om whai mr$ say you ve
tot to 8et a boyrriend and lek 5P wem to the ex_
rrem€ ot salint /ou ve 8ot to have a Sirltri€nd .
Ay: EXACTIY. At the time lwasthinkint ai this
ase you don t need to be dePendent on ayone.
I wasnl that interesled in all the administdtion
Also rhrouth SP tegor rc 80 on the Kilror pro'
i Thrt w.. a wdte ol tim€ .os we were
about 6 teenates and sexuelity and the
rhar the age of consent
t make much d ifference. . and the artu e menrs
loing in cir.les. What {ucking anio/ed me
the boys were on one side, parenti on the
sirls in the middle and the Sirh were beint
accused.And lwa clased 6 the G|RL5. wiih all
stupid little wildchilds, And ldont c8e, they
cd ruck who they Mnt ro luck but what lthourht
ws more interestint was what ghh who ar€ not
spoil! and getting in sunday pape6, what they
think. As eon 6 the wild childs came into the room
al $e boys were OH GOd 8et a load d thaC'
and I wished l'd said ldidnl like beint crassed with
them dd paidering to them. Th€ boys were alll
annoyint me, they were ali lads.. Theywere tant_
int up on this woman who was fiitbcingthe mandy
Smith lot. I said leave them to ]t. And Thembe
rrom SP said w€ shouldnt be talkinS about this we
should be talkint about emethint more substan'
tial like lncesi or rape or child abuse. This hnt as
serious a prob{em as abuse. lt wd jlst so annoy'
in8. And Kiko/ was safint oh the tirls.an do what
they want itstheir bodies. he wd beint like it ws
allverysau.y. lt-was s sick. THEY are not lfPical
t€enate6. So ... Annvay lwas a bit ted uP when
my sisrer staned toingout with someone be

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Ay: Yes, l'm obsesed wirh this boy, and ok ok
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prove hy.€lf. Bd il th.t do, it wdtget me
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leing our rh€rs ! t being.blo toakale.
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MynamersVan'n" fromiarrroia"ondregular otaosvctralrslsrepor,
Shanahan a.d lam one or basisind ;erc never 6iven boti senrtothe Home
whsr hss b6come known ihe time to sente and ;ork
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namesandaddrossosol afiempl ro br6ak me down imprisoned here. This is
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D€ar Shockln8 Pink,
I think I hav€ a probtem. t,n
obsesed with tiving the odd bits
in chante ro people,i shops, e.g.
it smetnint costs 5lp and i've oily
tot {l,llind m/selicompelted
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a GElllNI Vo,rJ going id have a really
tood time in the next trimenstrual period!
You'll get off with three of the people you
like the most, all of them will have piersed
noses. THIS MAY BE SIGNIFICANT. Also
your pre-menstrual madness will pass VERY
QUICKLY.
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a SCORPIO We know thar you will tive
up smokint for a week during this year (so
as not to annoy your parents). lf you are
wonderinS why this is as /ou dont smokeits
because you're toing to start. Youll be
eating more mantos-or is it avocadoesl
theres some confusion in your star chart,
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a SAGITTARIUS A bruinwave on
february 2nd may force you to change many
of your original plans but your interest in
plants will be rekindled as a result. Fiiends
are puzzled by your secrecy-so aae we, iust
whats goint onl
a ARIES You'll remember !o visir your
sister and possibly get a better haircur as a
result. Mercury in Libra puts you in a more
roleran! mood, which is iusr as well really
considering the people you have ro pur up
with. Remember thar salt is bad for you.
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. AQUARIUS yOU wlLL HAVE A
BABY, havint found some bartain oversize
dunSarees- You'll have some nice conversations
betwe€n the 22nd and the 29th. AND
your luck wfth machinery will improve.
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a TAURUS You'll shoplift a really nice
nose stud and therefor have a really tood
sexlif€. ADVICE: stop.missint school and
hand in your homework on time! (if you dont
you may tet cautht fare dodgint). GREAT
news Mars comes into your sitn on feb l3th
and staF there until the end of the
century-an exceptionally lonS time for Mars
to hang around anywhere! This strong influence
indicates youll be getting your own
way about several new adventures n.b. see
books by enid blyton for details.

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clothes, ifpossible and tet off wirh a fashion
victim. Scissors are agood thint to invest in.
Try to get the cat to do the washing up. As
you'll succeed you'll be far happier durin g
the next few weeks than for a long time.
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a GANCER Your pocket money will increase
and you can subscribe to Shockint Pink
now (or if you have already you can buy one
for a friend). You have itchy feer so a change
of socks is a good idea. Have vou thought
of vegitarianism?
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a VIRGO You are too impressed by fame
enter 13 competitions anj you are 'sta..ed
to win on€ and be runner-up of two
others-the car may be very useful. lnvesr
'ih some drivint lessons NOWII Spors wonr
b€ too bad exceptdurint your period, maybe
its the tap water-but that doesnt give yoy a
reason to buy shares.
a LEO Your little bruvers been playing up.
Youll be framed/blamed for h so be preparedl
You;ll develop some lauthter lines around
your eyes.nose. You'll develop a THING
about Sue lawley and chain yourself to her
left ankle. REMEMBER to ALWAYS use a
combination lock. Stop wasting your money
on bad magazines and dont foGet to
wash off your eyemakeup everynighr.
a CAPRICORT{ Youve made a terrible
mistake and lost k. Oh well stick to your bass
instincts and youll be alright. dont worrytoo
much about tampons and start reading more
books by Gerd brantenberS. BIG IS
BEUATIFFULL.
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- Ken Livingstone 3€emed like a nice boy
to us so we decided to get in contact
wlth hlm. he invited us for lunch and we
went (me rlsking great dkrapproval
from my mothed. we were to meet him
in the hous€s otparliament. it was yery
6xcitin8, especially for sonia who was 80ing
throuSh a phase. we had to go
througfi two security checl6' and wait
Ior th€ "ding dong" sound meaning all
clear, the llow€rs were passed through
also. they were o.k.
'men are d?eadful'
said ken "i don't socialis€ with any
men really. they don't listen to what
they each say". he ate saus.ge' €g8s'
beans and bacon-if you'rc interested.
ken thinks that marmosejts should b€ the
symbol for feminism becaus€ whsn the
babies are born they get palsed to the
tathers who look after them, except for
f€€ding. also, did you know that the way
salamanders reproduco b that the male
goes along in front ofdre female that he
fanci$ and drops his bag of sperm ot
som€thing, th€n thc femal$ can decide
whether they want to fertilise
themselves at all, and if they do-they
do it all themselves.
he thinks that ln tlte next d€.ade
people will want multipl€ orgasm3. lf i
don't think o{ anythlng else to wrlte
ebout him, he's a very triendly and nice
boy liut why do you talk about sex so
much, ken?
p.s. he doesn't think that A l€vels are a
waste of time, though.
lorNAns To
sus,vrer
FFrrrtrrlrNtl-l -
yy -'Ta,wpow e.a/'4,"$s .
lThv donft lTe do it here?
Hereratsho(kins Pink v,€'re very excited
about the revolutions in Eattetn EuroPe.
The total lack of coverage by our rival
magazines jacki€ and tdy Guy i3 sadly
typical. With all th€ir resources they
could do some Sreat photostor-i9s about
how the Rumanians legalised abortions
within days of overthrowing
Cauch€s

You, too, can be
slim like Diana
Chliiles arul
Diana Dier
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SuST Ef.tS\'1 louR e\^EFf UrD\€ FR\FNU: " \lls \\r
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recommeoding thrt Young
women go wirh
pr€qse -"-.. . * ?ruud il;:;:;;i;,T;;::iff;ffil; | | o*.' *om*.-* u" ro.tav
J Od \^q lv woment ber ln the Midlandslo no!. Even I I uurst
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ffie .s!!!. ThlY drdt t ev'o l' ; .'
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Why not be a rrsd.swoman?
Thed rE inlereslng and we paid
jobs goino n c pentry, eleddcs,
pditiig & decoradng and al the other
n.nual i6des. r hnl alle6y,'soz
dei want to hag onro rhese jobs,
btn $ere de Wment T'aining Cenl.os
to g.i you skned, 6nd technical
colleses and lEin Dg cennes ako ol
fer naining sp€cia y lor women
Wlilo/c,ll Lsd6 Women and Manusl
TGdes io' mo.e lnio ar Loidon
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I. wat*ing past a puu toaether a fight .pill3
out onto the payement, what does yotl 8al
a. Put her arm prorecovely around you and hurry
1T'r*, -o *.n -, t ."..,, ;4\
c. Stand and watch iust waiting for an excuse to
2. Yo're having a quiet night in and she ar'
rives with a video for you to watch. What's
it mo5t likely to be?
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b. Trains. planes and automouttej
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3. r your glrt p-tayes a mate it tennis or pool
and you were watchins, would she mind losing
in front of you?
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4. Have you ever seen her Gry, or at l€st
a. Yes, she! a softtouch when itconesto a sop'
b. Onl/ when shet chopping onions.
c. No! ev€n whei she\ chopping onionsl
lf. tr you go out witt' t'er .nd her mat€t
a, Leave /ou sitting in the (o.ner with a wa.m
orange ilice 3.d patient expresion?
b. lnclude you in the conveBation and siand with
c.loin in all the diny iokes and endle$ conveBarion
about footballand ca6. but wirh a $ihy look
6. wt.t'" "r" lik€ whcn .h€ loses her
a She\ likely to slam or kick sorething fou realll
know that she s ansry.
b. Pretty loud and nasty but it's all over.nd
done with in a flash-
G. Not much differeni from when she s in a tood
mood-she just says a tew sharp words and forsers
7. You've arEna€d to s€6 yosr gal, but you
3ister aski you to bebytit at the alst minute.
when you ask her to .ome t@, 3he-.
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very nice lo know and definitely not gnlfriend haterial.
65-35 She balances he. ma.ho instinct with a .onsideration for your needs. Shet rirm when she needs ro be, but shet not fri€hrened to giee
groud A tood bet Definitel/ gil+iend iareral.
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[ 30-0 Sottnes ,s her strentth hnd her nane ts Andrex - ed.). She s kind, considerare and very tentle. Sometih$ you mitht wonder iI shet jur!
\ a lirde wimpy. but beheve us /ou re much bet(er ort in thc troup than the first one. A real woman of the 80sl i/phts noterhis is NOT my
mislakel maybe the quiz{etter is tryin8 ro sublimabl/ inpll rhat rhis rype of woman is out oI dare - peBonally i think its just her sexuat prell
lf you scored over 100, TOUGH.
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atew lhings you could do to make /our dates le$ like rn episod€ ol Prisoner CellBlock H (shame - ed.):-Never 80 olt with her and her mates
Iou wont iike the toush ta! imate shet putrint on. 'lf she\ in a really foul mood dont go ou! wilh her. There s no point spendint a perfecrty
miserable eveninS tosether. 'Never ever ler her hir you-i{she does, n.ish wirh her. ll she\ done i! once she lldo ir asain, no mairer how nuch
she promises not to. Don,tffyto fo.ce herto do what yo! want by weepint and wailing. Toush la$er preter a gjrl who willstand her ground.
-She mal not be touSh through and throlgh. With gentle p.obins you mry well llnd a softy. ,Try and ter her ro like fury animah and babie3
and in the end she ll soften up ttr chuck you:
On€ lln.l wold abort thl3 qulz. If you ihould lind thit you or your ghl alontt ttt ex..rtty into the
Gatcgorl€c ibove, or that allprolllata anaayera are not giyen tor your b.h.vlour, tdst bea! irr mind
that EVEIIYONE els. llts alt.t you l'lu.lt be a 3oclal frcak.
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Farrcll of the S;er'eiy of Siste's
Faithful Companions of Jcsus
scrummed dom agaiast ! scratch
tem of lo€al vicd to Bise mond
for a church in Milton Keyre;,
Buckinshashi€.
According to Mother-Gencral
Xavier of T),t M Convent in central
London, "The 8ee is very popular
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Nature is a wicked Dlot
by Fd€ domination for centuri€s to try to
keep woh€n/girls in line-i.e. anything you do
which m€n don'twan!you to is "unnatur.l".
Likewise sam€-sex s€x is "unnatural" blah blah
well you knoly how th€y 8o on. 8ut if beint
str.ight and feminine etc is so natural then why
I the billions of pounds wonh of pro
da, repressive laws like Section 28 €tc,
don'r we act "naturallv" natllrallv.
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FORTUNE.A reat news
item!!! Yes. it wd a srru$re. but sP hs
indeed hanaged to avoid beintdisributed slighdy
better rhan it n at the moment. A cowle of months
ato our p.eent distributors told us that it we
Ented we could be sold at univeBiries lirst years
fairs alont wiih a magtine called Zitt7", which
they described .s 'an up-marke! ve6ion o{ Viz".
Well, nor exa.dy bdllianr, we lhought, but it would
be tood to get SP sold a bit no.e. So w€ trotted
atont ro meet the treat producers of ZiSg - all
seemed to be goint OK untiliust 6 we were leav-
int we happened to tet round to opening said nat-
trash - o HooROR FloRRoRlll! lt turned out
to be a load ol pornograPhic cra? with tits
everywhere-loads of "jokes" for wank/ male
nudents about the porn mars they read. As you
can imatine, we changed our minds quite quickly
abour beins sold on stalls wjth them, and a1l we d
liketo add to thistale is tha. Zisry it a pile womanhating
shire which should be .ipped up and dsaoyed
iI ever an 5P reader.workel comd acro$ it on
a newstenCs shelf (it h6nt been hard to nnd...hee
- I still like Shockint Pink ' ir what o.e of the Ziglwank€B
stinted d we explained lo ihem what we
rhought of lheir rag. Vi.tory to sho

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In ihis article we will rip bits ofi ftotrl the Obsewe olour supplemenl
bul since the Ob*Ne! also contains newoDs & patronising tales
of POOR PEOPLE, SP wil exclusively miss all this out d give yoD
only $e impondt bits.
Comparing the hi8hest wages dd the lowesl wa8es, Britai! is now a
more uequal sciery than ever before (as fd back as myoDe knows).
Reliable re@rds of ednings were fir$ kept 100 yq6 ago. in 1889 lhe,_
Victorid age when Things were Really Bad-
In 1869 the highest peid fifth of the workforce eamed 143% more the
the national average, and the lowesl paid fifth eamed 3l% iess the the
avernge. Now in 1989 the highest ?aid fifth are 15 % bette. off than $st.
and the lowest fiftb 4%,worse otr than one century ago.
Mosl of this inequality has core about it the last ten yq6 (coincidendy
the dse Tharchq & co have been in govemed). Before that lhere had
been a trend towards slighdy nore equarfty. Blt Dow conpare 37% of
the n]]l-time wortforce today eaning les thd the "decency threshold
of 68 % of av€rag€ tull-time eamings (s€t by the Councjl of Euope), with
2E% in 1979. Not imp.essive, is lt? And this doesn't.[ow for tho fact
that rhe.€ js an increasinS lrend towards put'tide work (es!@ially for
women), so that Imy ?eopte ar€ even wors€ otr thd lhese $atislcs *Dw-
.Also. note that chdges in fte tax sysled made by the To.ies
oh r.io
ao
LEEI's ANIMATION WONKS!|OP
- the r6t of rhis articl€ has vmished
from the disk, lrell Irll try to produc€ eme brief verjion of whai
ther€ p6 before Yes, weil as I vas sayinS, tle rich now pay a lot l€ss
tax thd beforc. Als. a1l thjngs lite dole, child benefil, housi4 benefit,
etc, have Bone up noch less tla! inflation or not at all. Arso nitlions
of other factoB nuke the poor p@rer, lik€ lublic seflices having b€en
run dowD or privatised so that you have to pay fo. more things-e8
trdsport is subsidied less, you have to pay for dental tr@ment & eye
tesls now-millions of thjnss.
Tlis is e extrad hom The ObseNers' lisr of lowst paid jobs (pay figrm
are befor€ tax has b€en taken off): a 1. Hairdresser (per yeal) €5,1E9
. 2. Reiail check'out operator t5,891 . 3. Hotel work€r (feo.le) t5,974
. 4. Bnrnaid !6.026 . 5 Hat or glove maker !6.063 . 6. Menswesr
worker !6,078 a 7. Shop ssistalt !6,089 dd so it ges oG Spoolily
enoueh, you @y trotice that all these e women\ jobs. Male national
aveiase pay is t14,014, femsle mtioml average is !9J80 And again
all these stats ar€ for tull time work including overtime, so maty women
actually eam far less tttu this shows.
Now che.k out lhe top salaries: Christopher Heath ('l!nagin8 dnector
, of some financiar co.) eets a mingy t1,339,000. Next down is Irrd
Hanmn (chairm of om co.): il,239.000. Next is Peter Stomonlh Ddling
(chaiman of finmcial co.) on !1.051,000. All those io the toP 50
de eilher men or typically male jobs. Top rich gits e3m mor€ in a day
th many peopte do in s ye{. But how does Terry Wog gel by on
€350,000 i-e. orly about 16,000 a week? I worry fo! dle poor boy.
I v€ been . lool w rh! nippin.$
lnd f.i.nd!hrp. Al the thin:,, can,t
hr. ,,,b€sus. ot wnat I .n I .:i'i
ih-cki.- g-P.nt
agazitte rcr women who don.t quite fit i
f{i@Mqffis
PnottoTlf,o cooD HAAT"S
(4rtA aofi. n'jttg''t! onat
,or ,h. n o'. mr.crt auo'!lr_,I
: Get lt from 23 Tunst tt Rd.
t Snxron . london Sw9 8Bz
7. fid London 274 Oar2.t
hsn I was 6
child, aboui 6, I
remembd awaking to
th€ sound ot loud
shouting , screaminq and
de€p cryins. I called for it io
stop, but ihe angry noiso
wsnt on. Next day mum
! comes down lookins really
badly bruised, says she's
This went on and on for
months. Once the police were
called by next door, they did
nothing.lt s domestic, not our
problem. Basicaly they didn't
At school whsn I was told
:' off lcried. then ran out. I lelt
i\ tit" t laa to escape, evervone
1\ was criticisinq me. I staned
f:* setting into trouble ar school,
Id{ft?rhtfi'.
I had no one to talk to- Me
and mum were arguins, due
to school. Dad was always
away. Friends dadn't undeBtand,
they giggled when my
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Go--l.rr>et--Giotr.
Do you believe you eern the lowest pay ot anyone in Britaln? Send ua in your
Itourly rate (be truthtul, now), and whoever earns the rnoct patheticatly llt.
tle wlll receive a genuinely good prize (not yet dectdedl and our advlce to
lcave tbe iob.
li
I mDt it .or lrE/HER/t1y MUM/
.>.r MY GMND MUM/HER I.IUM/OTHER
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;outhwark.
lhe feminist library and
nformation c€ntre so has a
election of journals and
Ewsletters, and specializes in
ilerature from lhe rvom€n's
iberalion movemdi.
lhe library also decided to
,.ioritisc books by and about
hose who exFrience multiple
liscriminntion such as women
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