There were women of all ages at the bandstand. Women from all parts of the world, from every corner of London. This was something that was felt by everyone.
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You feel your eyes grow drier, your too-warm skin starts to prickle, your muscles ache, and your head thumps as you watch the heavy blackness of night slowly morph into the terrifying twilight which heralds the arrival of another exhausting, sleepless dawn.
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Nuns can continue to wear their religious veils, but Muslim women cannot? Surely this is unfair and quite the opposite of equal, yet no one has raised awareness on the matter.
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I think it’s probably a lucky few that have had a completely easy-breezy life, right? Like many of us, I’ve had some adversity and challenges that I’ve overcome. I’ve climbed the Everest of mental health to reach a point where I feel like my peace and wellbeing is my ultimate prize to be cherished.
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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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Perhaps when your mate from a poorer background says no to going to the pub for a third time that week you can cut them some slack.
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These aren’t thoughts I consciously have though. They're ingrained, a part of every outing.
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Along with worsening dementia, the ‘client’s’’ loneliness is palpable.
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All the xenophobic acts we are unfortunately witnessing nowadays are just the tip of an iceberg that carries centuries of oppression, exclusion, and racism.
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As a trans man, one of the most common questions is “are trans men trash as well?” The short answer is yes. We are men, we uphold the patriarchy, we benefit from male privilege.
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When you think of Earth what is the first thing that comes to mind? Do you think of the ocean? Do you think of Trees and grass? Do you think of mammals, fish, or birds? How many of you think of dust? Well, that is what we are all made of; dust.
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June 21st is a deadline I both dread and await impatiently. You would wonder why the dread? It’s so exciting to be back to ‘normal’, but what is ‘normal’ at this point?
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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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Being poor is the challenge in and of itself, it does NOT require further punishment in the form of shame.
Your ability to coexist with those with money is a skill. Your ability to hide the lack of financial stability is a skill - but one you shouldn’t have had to develop.
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I had known the word endometriosis since I started to see doctors, from the endless googling I used to do to simply figure out what was wrong. But not one GP had even mentioned this to me until a month ago.
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The defund the police movement does not suggest that the government fire every police officer and close every prison immediately. Rather, it quite rightly argues that our current method of manging social issues via policing are a waste of tax-payer’s money.
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No one is born an ally. Allyship is a choice, an action, not an identity. An ally is only an ally in the moment of that action. They cannot be relied on inherently, and the word means nothing when it takes on a role as internalized identifier. Self-proclaimed allies often worry so much about the perception of being an ally that it prevents them from actually being one.
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The pain of being the only Black friend is having to accept that I have spent more of my life code-switching than I have existing as my authentic self. It means that I have wasted so much time swallowing my disgust when former friends caught a glimpse of other aspects of my identity and told me that I was behaving ‘out of character’.
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This is the second part of the Word to My Mother series. To read the first part, click here.
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“Why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest”, tweeted Rihanna on the 2nd of February 2021, more than six months after the movement began. Unlike other protests from 2020, the farmers protest has been given minimal media exposure, leaving many completely unaware of India’s largest protest to date. Though protests began locally, unrest led to farmers hailing from various parts of the country, with most originating from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, to unite in Delhi and resist three agricultural laws that passed through government last August.
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