About

FemAcadem is a Feminist blog originally written by Suzi, and  is  now a group blog co- written by Suzi and Andie.

Suzi is a 25 year old terribly British, terribly middle class Social Sciences student, health care worker and mother. She is kept on her toes in between working, attending lectures, essay writing, inciting the student body to riot and reading feminist literature by two charming curious children, one charming, curious kitten and one charming curious partner, who incidentally does all the technical stuff for this site, because while Suzi is a total nerd she lacks in technological skills and is very good at breaking things that are gadgety.

Suzi also reads a lot of blogs and has a wide range of opinions that tend to focus on why the government are idiots, why education is the solution to all of societies problems, why gender inequality sucks, why the gender binary is the most rubbish thing ever and why being a nerd is the best way in life to be.

Andie is also a Social Sciences student and mother of two. She is much more radical than Suzi and is passionate about civil liberties, human rights, freedom of information and the open source movement. She also has a lot of opinions and reads a lot of blogs, some of which are ones that Suzi doesn’t read. She’s a top notch organiser, and recently won the colleges Margaret Marsh award which is awarded to the female student who has contributed the most to student life. She spent last year as President of the Student Union, fighting a lot of sexist behavior and stereotypes about single, working class mothers along the way, and she’s back this year having been re-elected for a second term.

When not parenting, attending university, working or living in deadline hell, Suzi and Andie like to spend time gaming- Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Fable 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Devil May Cry 4 are amongst their collective favourites. They also like to go out for lunch and scare waiters by discussing the relative merits of opposing political ideologies and whether or not P!nk is a feminist icon. At the moment between the recession and growing children they are both too poor to go out for lunch so instead they have coffee and spend a lot of time trying to work out whether Jadzia Dax was better than Ezi Dax and planning campaigns against Sexual Violence at college.