Putting barriers back
The bit where they say it and the bit where they take it back.
Etcetera Theatre: Women Writers Festival
Wait for it.
OPEN CALL: WOMEN WRITERS FESTIVAL 2026
We’re now programming Women Writers Festival 2026 — a month-long celebration of new writing by women and female-identifying writers, this March 2026 at The Etcetera Theatre, Camden.
Oh. So not a women writers festival then. “Female-identifying” is the opposite of women, so it’s a people writers festival – which is fine, but you shouldn’t call it a woman writers festival.
This is about removing barriers and getting bold new work in front of audiences.
Not really. It’s about putting up new barriers to women. You can’t have it both ways. If you let men in you can’t say it’s for women.
Updating to add:
Not a man in the bunch. You’d never know it was for women and men who pretend to be women, would you.
Also notice the bright cheery colorful hijab – as if religious laws that force women to muffle themselves so that men won’t be tempted to rape them were bright and cheery and colorful.
And skirts or ethnic dress. Not a jeans-wearing woman among them.
maddog, didn’t you know? You can tell they are women because they are wearing skirts. Otherwise, how would you know? /s
That being said, I wouldn’t have minded a burka the other day when we did our grocery shopping in below zero temperatures. I saw a woman in a burka, and for the first time, it looked comfortable, at least for temperature.
That too annoyed me – also that annoyed me too. The whole thing is damn annoying!
I tried high-heels for a very brief time in my youth (50+ years ago).
It didn’t work for me.