Ageing is crossing a threshold into another land where life goes on but it is forever altered. It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who said we have “nothing to fear but fear itself”. At 25 I worried over being a quarter of a century old, at 30 I cried over my frown lines and lack of success. I spent my late 30s in paroxysms of anxiety about turning 40. And don’t get me started on turning 50.
Read MoreThe second part of tales about loos, bogs, shitters, throne rooms, crappers, khazi’s. Musings on the littlest room in the house and public conveniences. To read the first part, click here.
Read MoreI just want to point out that, just because we are disabled and may be in a wheelchair, it doesn’t mean we don’t understand. Sometimes people that are in wheelchairs might be unable to walk or they might have a leg or back problem; whatever is wrong with them, it doesn’t mean that because they are in a wheelchair they don’t understand what is being said.
Read MoreThis is the tale of how I tested the waters of the gender spectrum from agender to transgender, settling subsequently at cis female: gender nonconforming (or gender-variant). Confusing? It doesn’t have to be.
Read MoreI always was the one known for doing about 563726468382 things at once alongside school. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t forced to do them, I’d adopt the hobby because I liked it, and luckily, my parents sang the tune with me.
Read MoreIn September 2020, over 150 artists from around the world painted 50 plus large-scale walls across the capital; bringing art to the people in a legal way. The work of London Mural Festival was classified as construction and was therefore allowed under the pandemic rules.
Read MoreYou can always spot the Hackney tourist. In my experience, they are always the ones willingly queueing at The Good Egg, happy to pay £10 for what is essentially expensive organic eggs, maybe avocado and bread – a meal you could make for a respectable £4 if you got the ingredients from Ridley Road market.
Read MoreTo afford to continue renting into our 70s, and without a pension to draw on, we will need to continue working until the day we die - we’ll never retire. It’s grim, but it’s our reality and I think there are others in the same boat as us.
Read MoreIt’s more than just an easy punchline for food related jokes, it’s a serious, multifaceted, incurable illness which takes a huge amount of physical and mental energy to manage.
Read MoreTwo weeks into the new academic year, I came home from work, and he was gone. His stuff, him, everything. No warning, no notice, nothing.
Read MoreRegardless of ethnicity, many elderly people have suffered because of COVID 19, whether that be illness or the loneliness they have had to face.
Read More“I’ll find jobs that fit around being able to gig in the evening, and I’ll say “comedian” even if I earn my keep as a chef, or a baker. Existentialism teaches me that I create my own purpose, and define my own essence through the specific actions that I take”
Read MoreHi everyone. I’m Ramses, and I’m angry.
I should probably also say I’m trans, since that’s why I’ve got the microphone.
I’m Ramses, I’m trans, but I’m mainly angry.
Read MoreI’ve become used to checking my phone first thing in the morning and being inured to whatever bad news it has for me this time. But then, on 27th August I woke, checked my phone with sleepy eyes, and clicked on a Facebook notification. It told me that my friend C had died at just 35.
Read MoreTales about loos, bogs, shitters, throne rooms, crappers, khazi’s. Musings on the littlest room in the house and public conveniences.
Read MoreI have been in remission for 2 years and 4 months. I got Covid and survived and yes I'm still Vegan. I don't know how long Lupus will allow me to continue cheating, but for now there is peace.
Read MoreVegan and cruelty-free beauty is trendier than it’s ever been. The vegan cosmetics industry is predicted to be worth $20.8 billion by 2025, with millennials acting as the driving force, according to a report by Grand View Research. Yet despite these statistics, an alarmingly large group of us still don’t go vegan or cruelty-free when it comes to pampering ourselves. But why is this?
Read MoreThe last twenty-nine years have been rough. So why am I so nervous to turn 30? Surely, I should be ready to turn my back on the last decade, knowing that I’m coming out of it in the best place I have ever been, for both my mental and physical health. Yet I am terrified that I’ll wake up on October 5th, a failure.
Read MoreYou don’t tell him how you can’t understand why you ‘forgot’ to revise for your GCSEs last summer, so only got 4 A’s when you were told you would get at least 9. That most days you physically freeze when the bus to college comes; your arm refuses to raise to stop the bus, so you watch it drive past your stop and disappear around the corner, then dejectedly walk home and watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air VHS’s all day, feeling really bad because you fucked up again. You care deep down, although your lecturers think you are a lost cause and there is talk of kicking you out of college.
Read MoreOne thing that also increased over August, apart from customers and the layers of hand sanitizer on my hands, was the amount of catcalling myself and fellow waitresses faced.
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