Category: Celebrity

• October 27, 2022

  Short listed

  Very pleased to share that I was short listed for The Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Awards for Playwriting 2022! This year has been such a rollercoaster for my writing journey (and life) that I haven’t really taken a moment to take stock and give thanks for all the opportunities and lessons. Since gaining […]
• October 11, 2022

  Truss Us

  She is appalling. And Kwasi. Oh Kwasi. He is appalling too. But have you noticed the relative ease the media has had at pointing this out? Where was this energy with Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson? The man who broke his own law and partied as people died. Literally. 330k deaths from austerity, 208k Covid. […]
• August 9, 2022

  She’s a good sport

  With the England women’s football team making headlines for winning the Euros there is much talk of how to nurture and encourage girls to play football. I was reminded of a recent poetry submission I wrote for a BHM television special celebrating black sports personalities. Part of the submission included answering if any sporting heroes […]
• July 7, 2022

  Roe and Heard

  Versus Patriarchy – a Poem Why do wealthy men, love to wear women’s ovaries, like jewellery, in a crown of control and power? Why do powerful men loathe body autonomy for anyone who isn’t same sex or creed and sign deeds aimed to enslave and make us cower? Could it be that their insecurities gorged […]
• June 28, 2022

  Beyonce is not your saviour

  But you already knew that. There has been a lot of hype and debate around Beyoncé’s new release You Can’t Take My Soul. Raging thought pieces about the gullibility of the masses who are perceived to have accepted Beyoncé’s latest offering as her testament to her being part of the “struggle” flood my newsfeed. But […]
• August 21, 2018

  A letter of advice to Letterman

  

  I watched the first episode of “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” on Netflix and was delighted and entertained by David Letterman interviewing former POTUS Barack Obama.  An incredibly insightful, funny and inspirational 60 minutes of my life well spent.  The next episode with George Cloney also brilliant. The third episode however started to go down […]