Senegal, and NFE and Ivory :D
Sep. 16th, 2013 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaGood news for Senegal. :) This woman has a long history of doing really good work!
Apropos of recent talk about women being labelled as "strong" in fiction (to which I'll post a link as soon as I remember where I was reading it done! :D ), the article says:
I did manage my weekend goal of catching up with all the latest postings in the wonderful NFE... but now a new story is up, so I'm uncaught again.
And I also... well, to be frank, I don't know if I finished the new chapter of The Ivory Merchants, but I posted what I had, anyway. I would have liked that day (in the chapter) to have got further than midday, but there it is, such as it is.
Apropos of recent talk about women being labelled as "strong" in fiction (
"Touré is known as the Iron Lady. Every woman who rises to a certain level of government becomes an Iron Lady in the press. The men are, well, just guys."
I did manage my weekend goal of catching up with all the latest postings in the wonderful NFE... but now a new story is up, so I'm uncaught again.
And I also... well, to be frank, I don't know if I finished the new chapter of The Ivory Merchants, but I posted what I had, anyway. I would have liked that day (in the chapter) to have got further than midday, but there it is, such as it is.
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Date: 2013-09-16 06:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-17 12:41 am (UTC)(Can you believe it? I just now googled "Toure", and she didn't even show up on the first page? And then I tried "Toure Senegal" and even there, she was second to a footballer. But ahh.. what the heck... how Google rates people is NOT the measure of their value.)