Good morning,

I’m aware that Fem Friday has been a bit home based of late, which is probably because I’ve been home based of late.

This week, though, we start by looking at squatting, which is a particularly difficult way of being home based. This is from a site all about Olive Morris, a black feminist squatter activist to whom a subscriber recently alerted me. She is great:

Liz and Olive resisted several eviction attempts, and were arrested in many occasions. Every time, they went back to the squat and just carried on. The most notorious of the evictions was well documented in the local press. On a January morning of 1973, while Olive was away at work, the police forcefully took Liz from the house and brought her to the police station. When Olive returned to the house, she simply got back in the building. The police came back to take her away too, but Olive climbed onto the roof of the house and from there she harangued the policemen on the street.

https://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/121-railton-road/

About as far away from squats as you can get, here’s some amazing interior design work by Odile Decq (a woman) in an amazing property. I can’t believe that this exists, it is like a mid century modern hobbit house:

Decq, who was named as this year's recipient of the Jane Drew prize for raising the profile of women in architecture, is known for her bold approach to colour with projects like the 2010 glass-covered extension to the Museo d'Arte Contemporanei di Roma, which includes a red lacquered auditorium.

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/03/odile-decq-completes-renovation-of-antti-lovag-1970s-bubble-house-maison-bernard/

Okay so you probably don’t live either in a squat or in an awesome hobbit house in the south of France but you know what you can do? Invite madness into your home. Reductress shows you how:

Lace curtains add a delicate elegance to any home, and the sheer material makes it almost certain that everyone can see what you’re doing, day and night. Are you ready to upgrade your lifestyle and downgrade your mental health? Here are five lace curtains that will perfectly complement your decor and intermittent bouts of paranoia.

http://reductress.com/post/5-elegant-lace-curtains-that-let-in-natural-light-and-the-sneaking-suspicion-youre-being-watched/?slide=1

Have a lovely weekend!

A xx.