For Women magazine, 30 years on.
The launch of For Women was 30 years ago this week. I think it might even actually be 30 years ago today that the first copies hit the first newsagent, but the feeding frenzy was already well under way. I … Continued
Author Archives: Zak Jane Keir
Book thieves and book poseurs
It’s not particularly new for social media, or sectors of it, to be enabling book thieves. Just like music thieves, and film thieves, the internet is full of the idea that stealing art, particularly digital art, is somehow sticking it … Continued
Desperately seeking contact details?
(Yes, if it’s mine you want, you can have ’em: right here ) A beleaguered pal recently sent a heads-up round our social network asking the rest of us to please not give out actual contact details to anyone who … Continued
GC crybullies and the shrieking of the silenced.
Ever noticed how people allegedly ‘silenced’ never seem to shut the fuck up? There seem to be few better career moves than saying something horrible in public, getting disagreed with or reprimanded… and then launching yourself on the interview circuit, … Continued
It’s #WorldBookDay and we still love books
#WorldBookDay can certainly be on the tiresome side if you have kids at primary school, especially if you actually like books rather more than you enjoy contriving fancy-dress costumes. You can mostly ignore the invasion of the day by sellers … Continued
Chaos, comforts and Covid
Having finally had my own dose of covid last week, I can safely say that between the wonder of vaccines and the mildness of Omicron, well, I’ve had worse hangovers. Yes, I was lucky not to have been sicker, but … Continued
Shenanigans signing – win tickets for yourself and a friend
During the early, volatile stages of the spring of 2020, some of us were hoping Shenanigans would go ahead even as all the other dominoes were falling: unfortunately it became unfeasible to hold it, and the same was true of … Continued
Superstition, shame and luck
A recent depressing and exasperating covid-related trend is people announcing that they have copped a dose and then following it up with a bout of non-erotic self-flagellation – ‘it’s all my fault, I deserve it because I wanted to *go … Continued
Tiptoeing into 2022
A whole month into a new year… so how does 2022 look so far? In the short term, at least, further mass house arrest and further harm to the event and hospitality industries – and all your favourite fetish markets … Continued
Passwords, Safewords and Safety
Well, here I am in password hell again. Shouldn’t really complain, as it is lovely to have a Shiny New Laptop, but it is a touch tiresome to have to reset pretty much every password for every platform because, yes, … Continued