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

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

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

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...