Emma Watson – Francesca's Thoughts

23/09/2014

Scoffed at the HeForShe Campaign? Right, Let’s Talk

If you haven’t seen it already, the next thing you should do today is watch the entirety of Emma Watson’s UN HeForShe speech. There has been a lot of news articles quoting it, but some of the most interesting parts weren’t cherry-picked as far as I remember, and watching and listening coveys her emotions a Continue reading

DISCUSS., Fuckin’ Idiots, Government and Politics, Internet, September 2014, Videos

Emma Watson, equality, feminism, gender equality, gendered marketing, girls living as boys in Afgahnistan, HeForShe, India acid attacks, Indifferent Ignorance, make up, social constructs, UN

08/09/2014

A Tourist’s Guide to Being a Tourist: Warner Bros. Studio Tour, Watford

I feel like I should blog because it’s Literacy Day or something and I’ve got some time to kill before a webinar later. I was going to have a shower so I could be all snuggly with my headphones on, but then I realised that snuggly usually equals sleepy and I’m supposed to be a Continue reading

Books, Films, Movies, Photogenius, September 2014

‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, books, Emma Watson, filmmaking, Harry’s cupboard, Indifferent Ignorance, Literacy Day, review, Warner Bros. Studio Tour, Warner Bros. Studios, webinar

31/01/2014

The Eleven O’Clock News: Dog Snuggles Help Students.

Recently I’ve been the sort of busy that makes me think of people in the City clutching Starbucks at six am with their clacking heels and superduper handbags and eighteen hour days. I don’t have the clacking heels and I’m working on finding the perfect handbag but eighteen hour days are becoming quite normal. Which Continue reading

COFFEE, DISCUSS., January 2014, The Eleven O’Clock News

being a city worker automatically makes you really intense, COFFEE, eighteen hour days, Emma Watson, handbags, Headspace, Indifferent Ignorance, mindfulness, sleep, stress, The Eleven O’Clock News, tumble driers

02/12/2012

Six Degrees of My Headache

I thought I should let you know that recently I’ve been rereading and discovering the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus novels respectively, and that earlier I had a boogie to Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners, which featured in a film called The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which starred Logan Lerman, who also Continue reading

Books, December 2012, Movies, Pure Insanity, Videos

‘Come on Eileen’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Heroes of Olympus’, ‘Heroes’ by David Bowie, ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’, ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’, Dexys Midnight Runners, Emma Watson, Greek mythology, Indifferent Ignorance, Logan Lerman, Rick Riordan, six motherfuckin’ degrees of seperation