Oh Theon. He is one difficult character within the Game of Thrones universe and a character that stirs up a lot of debate among fans. Is he a treacherous arsehole who deserved what he got? Has he managed to repent his sins? Is he a tragic character that was wrongly […]
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The NHS website describes a person with a personality disorder as ‘someone who thinks, feels and behaves differently to the average person.’ However, I have a few issues with this. Firstly, what is ‘the average person’? Don’t we all have problems and difficulties? Is there any such thing as one […]
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Life is a series of disappointments with a few glimmers of hope and joy sprinkled in. When I was younger I remember being told the story of Pandora’s box. The gods left her a box and told her not to open it. She did, and out flew war, poverty, sickness, […]
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This poem ‘A Writer’ is included in my 2019 poetry collection Single Broke Female. A writer observesshe watches the world and writes every leafevery sigh of a tree blowing in the windshe listens. Men tell her their woesfrom tomcats to toadsthey weave their weeps into her earsshe listens. Fathers hang, […]
Continue ReadingGay people are ‘oppressed’ because some people think being gay is an abomination. Trans people are ‘oppressed’ because they don’t fit the gender binary. Women are ‘oppressed’ because they are controlled by men. Black people are ‘oppressed’ because they’re hated by white people. Straight white men are ‘oppressed’ because everyone […]
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