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Monday 5th February, 2024 I stashed myself in a box for safekeeping.University is scary, leaving home at 18, meeting strange new people from different walks of life who want to know who you are.And what if they don’t like what they find?It’s a vulnerable place to be, deciding what you show people of yourself, especially …
Friday 2nd February, 2024 I don’t think there’s any better example of bad parenting than telling your child that they can’t be friends with the “naughty” or “weird” or “difficult” kid. I generally don’t do calling people “bad parent” ; parents face far too much judgment, especially mothers. We’re all really doing the best we …
31st January 2024 Holy Filth To hell with purity.Or at least to hell with what the righteous tell us it is anyway.To hell with virginal innocence, unblemished faces, untouched bodiesTo hell with polished halo’s, hallowed silences, shimmering radianceTo hell with clean spoken voices, eloquent speeches, flowery language, and choral sung hymns. Give me the screams …
Thursday 11th January, 2024 If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you. …
Monday 1st January, 2024 Happy New Year! No matter how much we try to avoid it, life is messy.Messy and… well….mingin’!Humanity isn’t clean and neat and tidy, we burp, and fart, and poop and bleed. In fact most of our bodily functions are sticky and gooey and often a bit stinky too. We’re gross! And …
Saturday 30th December, 2023 Yesterday I suggested that The Church (universal) needs to stop evangelising and moralising and preaching and get back to basics, figure out what it believes love to be and teach that, teach it loudly and widely and most importantly live it out, until there is not a Christian in the world …
Friday 29th December, 2024 Homophobia within the church doesn’t take a break for Christmas I notice. The Christian media has been full of stories of the Pope, desperately trying to slowly steer the Catholic Church towards Christlike inclusion by offering blessings to gay couples, whilst, like the Church of England, still stopping short of full …
The tiniest of eyelashes frame delicate blue eyesNestled perfectly in his chubby faceHe stirs a little, murmurs and sighsBut remains at peace, which is a reliefTo his mother, so tired, laid on her bed,She reaches over, her fingers brush his golden hairSoft like down.She marvels at the softness of his skinSo smooth, untouched, unlived inHe …
Thursday 14th December 2023 A comment made on a post on my facebook page recently suggested that religion is bad news for women.And it may shock some of you to know that I largely agree.Religion is so often used to put down, subjugate and control women. That’s what religion has always done, control people.“Why are …
Sunday 10th December, 2023 Violence Against Women affects all of us, a YouGov poll* found that 80% of all women in the UK had experienced sexual harassment, but for women aged 18-24 that figure rises to 97%- nearly all of us! That’s before we even contemplate all the other forms of violence against women. So, …