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Showing posts with label Sandi Toksvig. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sandi Toksvig. Show all posts

Jun 12, 2020

On This Day

Sandi Toksvig



Common Dust
by Georgia Douglas Johnson

And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan
And solve the mystery?

The high, the low, the rich, the poor,
The black, the white, the red,
And all the chromatique between,
Of whom shall it be said:

Here lies the dust of Africa;
Here are the sons of Rome;
Here lies the one unlabelled,
The world at large his home!

Can one then separate the dust?
Will mankind lie apart,
When life has settled back again
The same as from the start?

May 15, 2020

Today's Vox Tox

Behind every great thing achieved by man, there's a woman being ignored.

Sandi Toksvig

May 8, 2020

Vox Tox

On how great women of history never escape getting slammed for being whores or ball-breakers or harpies or gold-diggers or or or.

Like we just can't bring ourselves to say they were great in their own right, and allow for the simple fact that nobody's perfect, and that by insisting on the ideal, we're always setting ourselves up for disillusionment.

Plus, it's good to be reminded that women generally have good reason to get a little prickly because of the constant stream of aggressions - micro or macro or subtle or obvious or physical or implied or what-the-fuck-ever.

Anyway, here's Sandi Toksvig: