Marisa Bate

United Kingdom

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "People Still Think A Mother Should Do It All"

1 month ago | grazia.co.in | Marisa Bate

Home Lifestyle Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "People Still Think A Mother Should Do It All"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares how her mother’s death has impacted her parentingIt’s been 13 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s impassioned 'We Should All Be Feminists'TED Talk, which was sampled by Beyoncé, printed on a Dior T-shirt and started a global conversation. And it’s 12 years since the author last published a work of fiction, the million copy-selling Americanah.
'People still think a mother should do it all'

2 months ago | graziadaily.co.uk | Marisa Bate

Author and activist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares how her mother’s death has impacted her parentingIt’s been 13 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s impassioned We Should All Be Feminists TED Talk, which was sampled by Beyoncé, printed on a Dior T-shirt and started a global conversation. And it’s 12 years since the author last published a work of fiction, the million copy-selling Americanah.
The Trump Administration Is Actively Eroding Our Rights - So Why Did So Many Women Vote For Him?

Nov 18, 2024 | service95.com | Marisa Bate |Olivia McCrea-Hedley

Alamy Activism, Politics | By Ahead of the US presidential election on 5 November, the polls told us the race was tied. Yet, in a contest framed as the battle of the sexes, some pundits believed that women voters would edge Kamala Harris over the line. Why? To protect abortion rights, to elect the first woman President and stop a man accused of rape and found liable of sexual abuse from getting back in the White House. “Typical,” I texted a friend.
I delved into my family’s history – and discovered a long-hidden secret. But was it mine to tell?

Nov 13, 2024 | msn.com | Marisa Bate

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I delved into my family's history – and discovered a long-hidden secret. But was it mine to tell? | Marisa Bate

Nov 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Marisa Bate

I’m sitting in my great-aunt’s retirement home on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan. It’s not yet October, but for reasons I don’t quite understand the home is throwing a Thanksgiving dinner for residents and guests. I join my great-aunt June and the other octogenarians piling up their paper plates at the buffet. Then we sit at trestle tables lined with tiny pumpkins, while framed photos of the recently deceased sit on top of the grand piano, seemingly looking our way.
A second Donald Trump presidency threatens to upend women's rights

Nov 6, 2024 | au.lifestyle.yahoo.com | Marisa Bate

Marisa Bate6 November 2024 at 12:42 pm·5-min readThere is no sugarcoating it. In the politest way I can muster, the election of Donald Trump as the 47th President is fucking terrible news for women — even the women who voted for him. If this election was a referendum on gender, as many suggested, it’s safe to say the men have won, propped up by the bro-vote and ushered in by the leaders of the manosphere, like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, and in many very real ways, women have lost.
I wanted a daughter - but my son has forced me to rethink my feminism

Aug 31, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Marisa Bate

You name it, they’ve done it. The men I know have let women down in spectacular fashion. There’s infidelity, domestic abuse, bullying, bad and lazy parenting. There’s scandal, secrets and promises never kept. I’ve even flicked through photo albums with relatives who have revealed stories belonging to distant members of arson and domestic homicide. There’s lying and second families and generations of male privilege that have allowed them to think they could get away with it, and mostly they have.
I'm the worst in my exercise class

Aug 27, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Marisa Bate

For the past several months, I’ve been attending a barre class on a Monday lunchtime. Barre is a mix of pilates and ballet, and it’s tough. An hour of repetitive pulsing movements that isolate muscles throughout the body leave my limbs burning. My legs, arms and core feel on fire long before we’re at the end of a set, often just in the warm-up. I have seen people leave the class mid-way, expecting gentle stretching and a few pliés, not hardcore muscle conditioning with weights.
What parents get wrong about raising boys

Aug 14, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Marisa Bate

It can be a frightening time to have a son. Masculinity is toxic, in crisis, or under attack, depending on who you ask. Statistics show young men and boys are online too much and are falling behind educationally. Figures such as Andrew Tate loom large in the public consciousness, a dangerous snake charmer that seemingly renders the rest of us powerless.
An isolated house and a man's face pressed up against the window… The terrifying stalker I experienced as a child cast a shadow over my life for 40 years | Daily Mail Online

Aug 11, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Marisa Bate

An isolated house on a wooded lane behind an abandoned airfield. A knock on the door late at night – and yet an empty doorstep. Later, a man's face in a balaclava pressed up against the window. It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but for my mother, my brother and I, these were no schlocky movie tropes. This was real life. And the consequences have stayed with me for almost 40 years. It was the mid-1980s and my mum and dad had split up.