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Lads: A Guide to Respect and Consent - Step Up, Speak Out and Create Positive Change
Home > Education > Lads: A Guide to Respect and Consent – Step Up, Speak Out and Create Positive Change By (author) Alan Bissett Be the guy to step up, speak out and create positive change. Have you ever been in a situation where there’s a loud guy making dodgy comments, cracking jokes that only he thinks are funny or leering at the girls in the room? You can feel the tension, right? That guy is the worst, but no one is saying anything, because the whole situation is intimidating and awkward.
Alan Bissett: Is writing in Scots an act of resistance?
I’m often described as someone who writes in ‘Scots’, but I’m not sure if that’s true in the strictest sense. If what’s meant is the heritage language which dates back to the 15th Century, deriving – but also distinct – from the northern form of Old English, with all its ‘hoolets’, howfs‘ and ‘houghmagandies’, then no, I’m not a ‘Scots’ writer. Reading that archaic language still connects me to a country which, in the main, is gone, a victim of English linguistic imperialism and marginalisation.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Please note this play ended on Sat, 06 October, 2018. A police interview room. A table. Jock has been huckled for a crime he says he didn’t commit: imperialism. He has been spotted at the scene, but is it what it looks like? Or is Jock, despite what he claims, a racist himself? It Wisnae Me is a political satire posing the question: of Scotland’s complicity in colonisation. Produced in association with the Traverse Please note this play ended on Sat, 06 October, 2018.
it's time to get above ourselves
The Independence movement finds itself in a strange place right now. On the one hand there have been massive gains. The referendum in 2014 was lost, but we came tantalisingly close to winning. Since then, support for Independence has gently risen, despite a continued onslaught from a largely hostile media and ‘OIL APOCALYPSE!’ screeching from the Unionist parties.
Rangers v Celtic: Football loyalty shouldn't beat class solidarity
by Alan Bissett There’s no denying it, the Rangers v Celtic fixture is one of the most exciting in the world. The atmosphere goes beyond anything offered up by other British derbies. When Graeme Souness first arrived at Rangers in 1986 he ruffled feathers by describing the game against Celtic as “just another match”. How quickly he changed his tune… In another sense, of course, the Glasgow derby is an embarrassment to Scotland: steeped in bigotry, ancient hatreds and puerile taunting.
Imagining a new nation
Another answer to the question is that the arts had already declared "independence in the world" decades ago (only amplified by Holyrood being responsible for cultural policy).
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