In feminist circles, ‘intersectionality’ has become something of a buzzword. It connotes straying away from the traditional definition of feminism as something universal and all-encompassing and instead acknowledging that specific sections of society demand different things from the feminist cause. For example: transgender women face a different battle compared with of women of colour, therefore […]Read More
Welcome back. I’m trying to quit smoking, and I’m using literature, philosophy and the President of the United States to do it. Let’s continue. Addiction, as we have seen, is tied to emptiness – a hunger. Smoking belies satisfaction and has carcinogenic, mutagenic and ultimately deathly properties. So, in order to overcome the real crux […]Read More
Welcome. I am trying to quit smoking. The following is a conduction of a kind of self-therapy through which I try to learn more about smoking and addiction by analysing both literary fragments (admittedly scant) which muse upon smoking and my own mind/consciousness, with the eventual goal being some sort of developed or more thorough […]Read More
Two years ago, I didn’t understand what anxiety was. In fact, I wasn’t really that well up on mental health as a whole. We don’t educate young people on mental illness and we grow up somewhat acknowledging its existence in the same light as dust under the carpet – it’s there alright, but lets not […]Read More
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt so uncomfortable and nervous that you just had to leave? Or perhaps you had an unfortunate interaction with someone and the very thought of seeing them again made you feel nauseous? Now, imagine someone telling you to just “get over it”. Imagine them telling you to stop being “such a […]Read More
Do you know what’s getting old? The glamorisation and idolisation of female celebrities when they act like humans and um, do human things. Vanessa Hudgens leaves the house bare faced in a tracksuit and twitter crowns her an inspiration to us all. The bravery! Jennifer Lawrence completely decks it at the Oscars and she is […]Read More
