About

I have always been interested in women’s issues.  As a second child with an older brother my childhood was spent as a Tom Boy doing my best to prove that I could climb the tree as high as my brother, I could ride the cross handle bike as fast as my brother and that I could play rugby as well as my brother.

I am not sure how that played out specifically into my adult hood but I’m pretty sure that it must have had something to do with who I am now and what I feel most passionately about in life.  I have spent my adult life travelling and working in many different contexts; Ghana, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan Ireland and now for the last 12 years Ethiopia.

In so many of these countries and including my own I see the inequalities between rich and poor, disabled and able bodied, different religions, colors and race, between aged and young and of course between male and female.

I am most certainly a feminist but more than that I believe in the value of diversity.  I believe in empathy and trying to understand things from other people’s points of view.  I believe that if we were able to be more empathetic and gracious to each other then the need for us to fight for our own rights or fight for others  rights would not be required.

Sadly, that is not the case and it is necessary on so many counts for the inequalities in this world to be voiced, challenged and addressed.  This blog is really about my own thoughts and feelings as I battle with my own and other’s experiences of those inequalities.  How I am learning to address them in my personal and professional life and the small successes and failures that I encounter along the way.