This piece is the second in our joint mother-daughter series. To read the first piece, click here.
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This piece is the first in our joint mother-daughter series. To read the second piece, click here.
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I always felt a bit itchy about it, and Valentine’s Day for that matter. Tokens of love can sometimes feel cheap when you spend too much money on them! And that dear readers is why I’m not a very successful businesswoman!
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With rent prices in cities increasing drastically in the last decade, millennials complaining that they are struggling to put any money on the side on a monthly basis, starting salaries being excruciatingly low, particularly in cities like London where the job market is extremely competitive, and few of us being offered private health insurance through work, it is hard to believe that many have the opportunity to spare £300 a month for counselling.
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For as long as I can remember whenever someone has asked the question, “who would be your dream dinner party guest?”, I have known my response. My hand shoots in the air, fingers waving as my face turns purple with the desperation to shout my answer. “Diana. Princess Diana”, I exhale.
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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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The Netflix hit Bridgerton, adapted from Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels, created by Chris Van Dusen, and produced by Shonda Rhimes, revealed to 82 million viewers the exquisite fashion of Regency Britain. While Bridgerton costume designer Ellen Mirojnick took influence from the colour palettes, fabrications, and silhouettes of the 1950s and 1960s to create the show’s 7,500 costume pieces, this article provides a whistle(down)stop tour of early 1800s fashion.
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A show of trust is not consent. I spent so much time beating myself up, for looking through every lens which casts me as the idiot, but, at the end of the day, we let our guards down around people who are supposed to be our friends - like we would be comfortable doing with countless womxn.
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I wouldn’t say I chose the spiritual path, rather it chose me. In order for my eight-year-old self to survive the slings and arrows of outrageous friendships, I needed to adopt a philosophy that ensured my closest relationships left me feeling whole and happy.
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‘Why would you feel so negative, when you can look at the positives that he has achieved in his life?’ That is something I will firmly hold onto, but grief is never easy. I had to grieve on my own, away from my family, and away from university friends that I would see in the odd lecture or two, due to the online learning we were now faced with.
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Dry January just ended, and many people choose to completely ignore it in favour of a very wet one! I don't bloody blame you, life is challenging enough right now so yes, enjoy your tipples, why not. But for some it may have been a good opportunity to kick the habit. A starting point to make healthy changes.
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To a certain extent, storytelling surrounds us from prior to our birth and, if we are fortunate, till long after we are gone. Yet it is a concept many of us are afraid of; myself included until merely a year ago.
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Humans are social by nature; this isn’t a new concept or hypothesis, we have ‘literally evolved to be social creatures’. So, when a global pandemic forced us to stay away from other people, it inevitably took its toll.
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This so far, may sound perfect, but of course there’s also been those who have dropped off of my path. Some of these, I just talk to less, some I realised we were never really that close. We all have those friends in secondary school who were only friends with out of convenience, right?
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Instagram on the other hand has always been a specially curated blend of my favourite things: illustrated art (mostly cats), activism and people with great style sense promoting independent stores I cannot afford. Each has served their purpose in creating a break from my relatively ordinary life, but the recent and growing blend of my three favourite contents has caused personal scepticism.
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In my experience, being beside the sea is an ‘unfenced existence.’ It is quiet, it is blinding, and it most importantly offers us on its shores something unobtainable in a world where we can get anything. It is, as part of the meditation and innate calmness, stretching your eye out as far as you can see, to that flat, dark line of the horizon.
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Online content is designed to be addictive. Everything on offer is based upon what you've previously shown an interest in, swiftly dragging you into the proverbial rabbit hole. I have a job now, as well as an incredibly developed sense of guilt, which means that I am not exactly comfortable with my tendency to spend hours on Youtube.
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Obviously, with so much going on right now, Valentine’s Day is probably so far down the list of priorities but regardless of how you feel about the day of looooove, for many couples, I think it was earmarked for a bit of normality.
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I had my last drink four and a half months ago. It was nothing eventful or remarkable. There was no drama, not even an unbearable hangover. I had planned to go with a bang, to make it count. Instead, I went camping on the beach with my family, drank my normal bottle of red wine and drained my plastic cup under the stars.
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