TALKING FEMINISM: GENDER, LANGUAGE, LITERATURE

A blog exploring linguistic gender inequality and its many real-world manifestations.

Linguistic traps and cutting through the crap.

Kitty Doherty

Mar 15, 20223 min read

Personal Essay: Quietly Kicking

When women are systemically taught to distrust their own instincts and to defer to the cognitive authority of men, it can be difficult...

Kitty Doherty

Mar 15, 20222 min read

Introduction: If I Can't Find the Words, Where Does that Leave Me?

Not all men do this - we know. However, enough women, or people who aren’t cis men, have been at the receiving end of a lecture during...

Kitty Doherty

Mar 15, 20222 min read

A Note from the Author

This blog is written from the perspective of me, Kitty Doherty: a young, English-speaking, white, pansexual, cis woman with a literature...