As soon as I tapped the Facebook icon on my home screen, I was greeted by a barrage of weight loss ads and fatphobic memes. June 21st is coming and it’s time to lose the ‘lockdown weight’.
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Most of my clothes are pretty funereal in fact, except for occasional bursts of bright which render me clownlike. I feel safe in black, sturdy, roomy clothes, a barrier against the world that prickles and probes and demands from me. I like the anonymity and invisibleness of it.
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An invisible disability is a life-altering condition that is not apparent just by looking at someone. Guess what? This covers 1 in 7 of the UK’s population – so we are everywhere, you just don’t know it, because our superpower is being invisible.
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#FreeBritney.
#MuteRKelly.
#MeToo.
All of these hashtags are instantly recognisable. They have swept through social media like wildfire.
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So to answer who threw the first stone at Bridewell... the police did. Much like with other historic events, it was the police who transgressed first. A group of people then decided the reaction to this would be to resist - which led to vans being set alight and spray painted, and the police station window being smashed. All of this is repairable and replaceable; what is not repairable or replaceable is the trauma that the police inflicted on people that day.
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According to the National Literacy Trust, 12% of adults in Wales, 16.4% of adults in England, 17.9% of adults in Northern Ireland and 26.7% of adults in Scotland have very poor literacy skills. This means that “they can understand short straightforward texts on familiar topics accurately and independently, and obtain information from everyday sources, but reading information from unfamiliar sources, or on unfamiliar topics, could cause problems.”
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As time passes trends come and go, but I’ve noticed that the 90s are back in a big way. It’s not uncommon that we yearn for our childhood and adolescent years, when things were not as hard and your mum did all your laundry for you. This sense of nostalgia can cause past fashions to recur every so often, however this 90s resurgence has been going on for a long time and although I’m not mad at it, it makes me wonder...why?
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My sister once overheard a girl at our school unironically tell a friend that they must wear pink on Wednesdays. But unlike Mean Girls, these categories that we are put into, and put ourselves into, are not obviously stated or well defined. And sometimes, maybe even most of the time, are completely arbitrary and unhelpful.
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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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The moment I realised I wasn’t just living for myself but for some imagined male audience I had mustered up in my head, I was horrified and honestly, ashamed. Did this make me less of a feminist? Who taught me this? Why am I doing this? Am I even being my true self?
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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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But in developing this understanding of confidence, I began to question to myself; can everyone afford to be the most authentic version of themselves? Of course, I know that many external and internal challenges can influence or even challenge this ability to live ‘confidently’ (as I understand it). For one, I’ve never had to hide my sexuality or second guess my actions for fear I was being treated differently because of the colour of my skin or because I’m disabled.
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What is Self-love?
A face mask and a cocktail, another clothes order this month, putting on some make-up, or 15 minutes of ‘alone time’ with your special ‘friend’? All good options. But would you add taking a selfie to that list?
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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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