The point of this article is to be candid about recreational drug use because, if we’re honest, drugs are everywhere.
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There are women out there, living alone or who have children, and who are still struggling, each and every day with making ends meet financially as a big chunk of their salary is being taken up by the cost of rent.
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So, if monogamy is so widely accepted as ‘normal’, default, and plastered all over the media (who else watched The One?), why are open relationships so attractive to some?
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This in itself seems to me both misguided and somewhat patronising. How are we to judge what an acceptable level of interest in politics is before you are knowledgeable enough to include such a disclaimer?
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I can’t remember the exact moment we first met, I guess that has something to do with being so much older now and memory fading over time but I do know that Rob has been in my life since we were young.
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For me, my happiest moment wasn’t a stand alone event, it was one moment that crystallised and encompassed years of happiness between me and my best friends.
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I didn’t know how to start the conversation so I cleared my throat and said, ‘Are you ok?’ There was a slight movement of her head as her eyes peeked at me between the top of her head and the linked arms.
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But, how was that first meeting? Was it love at first sight? What of the courting and bedazzling that came to pass between these two single souls living in London?
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I wish I’d known how the actions of my aunts and uncles affected my mum and dad. It must have been painful for them. If they had bowed to pressure and stayed away from our wedding, which I know anecdotally lots of parents have done (including two of my friends’), it would have broken me.
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I sat down for a virtual chat with Actress, turned CEO, turned Author Julia Goodman to find out: what does success look like at 70? I intended to discover what creates a woman as fierce as Julia, and how younger women like me can pursue success with the same focus.
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“Is it dangerous to admit that I’m feeling relaxed?” he asked. “This feels too good to be true”.
The happiest memory with my family? Perhaps it should be something sensational, the kind of memory that comes with a fanfare of trumpets, bursts of fireworks and a collage of photogenic smiles to line the kitchen wall.
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We let the news digest. I was officially autistic now. For my partner, I think it was something new to add to my list of difficulties. For me, it was a weight off my shoulders. I was relieved. I was understood.
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Happiness has lots of meanings. We are happy if there we have safety and security in our lives, and we’re happy in the deepest way when we feel a sense of belonging and connection with one another, and with the beautiful world around us. We are happy if we have a sense of purpose and meaning and as a parent to adopted six-year-old twins, currently, there is no greater purpose.
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When it comes to transgender people, cis-heteronormativity in healthcare can be particularly damaging: the National Transgender Discrimination Survey shows that 19% respondents were refused care, 28% reported harassment, and 50% had to teach their medical providers about transgender health needs.
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In the UK alone, 49% of children have missed a day off school because of their period. Almost one in four young women ‘didn’t know what was happening when [their] period started’.
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Welcome to my second (#2) in the series of game writing scripts which are inspired by the game Raid: Shadow Legends. To read the first in the series, click here.
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One thing that stood out is that homosexuality has been recorded in over 1500 species, and that they are yet to find a species that has sex which does not have homosexual individuals
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Word To My Mother is a personal project I have been working on for the past 8-9 years where I process the loss of my mom and my life without her since then in the form of letters addresses to her personally. She passed away in 2004 when I was 14, just when we had started building our mother-daughter relationship.
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Being a student right now feels like opening the exam paper and seeing that topic that you absolutely HATE on the first page. Yeah, that feeling...except it’s every day. It’s confusing and, at times, downright scary.
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How many times have we seen that conversation, or one like it? How many opinions are there on the word ‘queer,’ what, in the end, does it mean, and why’s it important? I will offer a different perspective from just saying one is right and the other wrong: the word ‘queer’ is really two words, two queers, the reductive, and the expansive.
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