Those were the days
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing – if you can think back that far – and, as my kids keep reminding me, as my short-term memory fades by the day I shall probably soon be able to recall the Sixties and Seventies better than what happened last week despite the old counter-culture, rock underworld, jokey adage that if you can remember the Sixties you weren’t really there.
Accordingly I was delighted overnight to spy this interview by Josie Jordan of Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe, co-founders of Spare Rib, as appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN
The late Sixties and early Seventies were heady times for those of us vaguely interested in journalism – on the back of such publications as Oz, International Times and the Fortean Times – and my girlfriends and I welcomed the arrival of Spare Rib as a new departure. Like the others it was ‘of its time’, of course, but it pointed the way towards ‘something’ – I shall leave others to decide the extent of its influence upon later developments in the women’s movement.
