Category: life

• October 13, 2022

  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…
• 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.…
• September 18, 2022

  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…
• 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…