Category: Life Beyond The Kitchen Sink
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Winter Solstice Vibes
I started writing this post for Black Friday- something that didn’t even exist in this country ten years ago – a day dedicated to ramping consumption, consumption of products designed to be obsolete by the following year’s Black Friday – but alas procrastination set in and I never finished it. But here we are six…
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The Art of Grief
Probably a surprising title for a review of #wakanderforever but then again- I’m not really writing a review but an observation. In our Western Society grief, loss and mourning are taboo words (unless of course a member of the monarchy dies). We are told to rush ahead, distract ourselves, buy things, fuck things – whatever…
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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…
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Morons
The current module on my course talks of the importance of NVC – Non- Violent Communication when holding conversations with people of differing views. There are four stages to NVC communication: 1) Making observations 2) Describing feelings 3) Identifying needs 4) Making requests So for example, instead of projecting what you are feeling onto what…
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Empathy
So I have been completing a course with Berkely Greater Good Science Centre (Might as well make use of insomnia). In one module, I was asked to complete the empathy test below: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/embed/empathy The summary of my results included suggestions on how to be more empathetic. Rather than swimming in neurosis on whether the tips…
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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.…
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Long live the people
In the trenches of blighty, the enforced mourning is exhausting. Across billboards and headlines we are told that we must feel deeply devastated about the death of an elderly women who lived a very long, comfortable and privileged life at the expense of the general public. For those of us in genpop who are generally…
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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…
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Adaption
I bought the @xrebellionuk Handbook several years ago but have been too terrified to read it and so embarrassingly, it has just sat on my shelf gathering dust.. But this one below has been impossible for me to put down! Yes, the first couple of essays talk in very plain language of the extent of…
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hope +glory
Let us not forget that this vote of no confidence was brought about NOT because their Right Honourable leader – broke the law – the laws that he himself imposed across the land. NOR for lying about breaking the law or lying to the Queen. NOT for the 4am parties with vomit and red wine…
the brixton housewife 