Hilarious. Heartbreaking. Personal. Brave. Deeply lonely. Fearless. Relatable. Gross. Vulnerable. Self-deprecating. Comforting. Lonesome. I have just finished week two and book two of my 2018 one book a week resolution. This week I read Samantha Irby’s We […]
Simone de Beauvoir was born on this day in 1908. Simone de Beauvoir was a French intellectual who is largely known for writing The Second Sex, one of feminism’s seminal works. I am in the process […]
As part of my New Year’s resolution, I resolved to read a book each week. Another implicit reading goal was to read more books written by women of colour. One week into 2018 I […]
The CNN Breaking News banner is permanently imprinted on our living room TV screen. When a TV is left on for an extended period of time, it causes a break down in the display’s phosphors […]
When I was a teenager, I thought life was governed by destiny. Destiny was one of my favourite subjects and I loved movies like ‘Only You’ and stories like the one told by the man […]
Poverty is wearing me thin. I say this with a full awareness that I have never experienced true poverty. I have grown up with so many advantages and so many opportunities. As I write this, […]
The Greek myth of Iphigenia is a story of fatal blunder, revenge and sacrifice. It is the mythological equivalent of the double bind. In this myth, Agamemnon offends the goddess Artemis by slaying a sacred […]
Allegations, accusations, disclosures, confessions, denials, court transcripts, police reports, whisper networks, public statements, purges, pulled movies, cancelled shows, stone cold silence, people taking to Twitter, people taking Twitter hiatuses. We are being splattered daily with […]
For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. This is the first sentence of the first book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-book series My Struggle. The first […]
I love you Karl Ove Knausgaard. Really, this is not at all surprising, nor is it original, as the Norwegian author’s six-tome 3,600 page series titled ‘My Struggle’ has sold millions of copies worldwide. It […]