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Leaving his family was not a decision Jihad took lightly. In 2014, reports of floating bodies from boats intentionally shipwrecked by traffickers flooded the media and Jihad says he was forced to make...
View ArticleThe Budget Hotel
It is the last hour of an all-inclusive buffet breakfast, so naturally the serving platters are empty–scraped bare of pale yellow mass-produced scrambled eggs and ‘greasy-less-than-crispy’ bacon. A few...
View ArticleThe Body is Not An Apology | 7 Things You Learn Raising in Kids in an Open...
A polyamorous relationship changes the environment your kids grow up in. Those who live and love inside polyamorous relationships know this, because polyamory isn’t something you do like badminton on a...
View ArticleThor Ragnarök: A Baby Step in Equality
World building, as Marvel has proven it can pull off over the last decade, is a skill I admire, it's an escapist's ultimate playground--yet my aversion to imperialism and the influence of a feminist...
View ArticleA Privilege Problem With Journalistic Education
Yet we're in between two eras, where many of those teaching have been formatively educated in the objective journalism aka, the voice of God decades when their privilege had not yet been recognised....
View ArticleWhy I’m Grateful I Have a Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis
I googled ‘famous people who have borderline’ but I shouldn’t have. Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Britney Spears. All touted as hysterical, unstable women. The Hollywood tropes were if possible,...
View ArticleLovecraft Was Racist, But Isn’t That Why His Legacy Should be Remembered?
Great art changes the status quo and incites critical discourse. Lovecraft’s work, by this definition, is worthy of continued recognition. The post Lovecraft Was Racist, But Isn’t That Why His Legacy...
View ArticleWhat Aziz Ansari Did Does Not Make Him A Criminal, Unfortunately
Power is the capacity to influence others which--regardless of systemic privilege--fluctuates, sometimes on a daily basis according to self esteem, personality, age, maturity and in every unique...
View ArticleLife without Facebook? Is there any chance for escape?
Depressingly, a portion of those ‘success stories’ who did not return to Facebook had simply replaced Facebook with other social media. Far from extracting themselves from an algorithmic life, they had...
View Article7 Things I Teach My Kids About Consent, Sexual Harassment and Assault
We don’t treat people like we treat oranges because people are not things. No one can treat you like an orange. No one can take your juice aka... your power. The post 7 Things I Teach My Kids About...
View ArticleWhy Communists turn into Nationalists
As causes grow in popularity, the original victims are often left behind whilst those already in power claim more space and more status by piggybacking on these issues without having suffered...
View ArticleThe Tale of Two Dads
Status: Is this history repeating itself? Please Mr. Parenthood leave my sex life alone. Also, how is my mother going to take this? #peepositive #instupefaction, #notatallpanicking The post The Tale...
View ArticleWhy We Should Say ‘Female Genital Cutting’ and Not ‘Mutilation’
Mutilation is not a word commonly associated with love. But given that the choice in many African communities is to be cut or choose a future where your child is ostracised, unlovable and...
View ArticleThe Face of the European Brit
Maybe you like me, are growing weary of the bigoted, beating heart of Brexit-fucking-Britain, but unforeseen consequences and unsolved issues still resound almost two years… The post The Face of the...
View ArticleBoy, You’ll Be A Woman… Soon
For a woman like me--a die-hard fan of The Rocky Horror Show who lustfully watched Sweet Transvestite on loop --the news that Chanel launched it's first make-up for men on September 1 2018 in South...
View ArticleBrown Paper Packages Tied Up With String
With time restrictions therefore, my options are few; but I'm determined to make it work. After all between an apocalyptic future exploding in glorious glitter, and any other future where presents look...
View ArticleHow I learned that Mental Illness was not a Personal Failure
We talk a lot about sexual objectification but rarely look at the bigger picture. An object exists to serve a purpose and in many instances we are objectified in order to serve society. If I could not...
View ArticleMy Daughter’s Consent And The Boy Next Door
This boy is kind. But being kind doesn't disguise the fact that he has no knowledge of boundaries. He knocks at all hours of the day. If the back door is on the latch, he'll come in uninvited and sit...
View Article#Metoo Motivations
Last November, an ex-partner of Franklin Veaux contacted me to share some pretty dire experiences of psychological abuse. I didn’t want to believe her. What I wanted to believe was that the harm...
View ArticleThe Credibility of Polyamory’s #MeToo Research
Clearly I am subjective, but then every single individual is. My research is mainly qualitative, and it supports conclusions derived from interpretation and context. How then, might it be considered...
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