A poem about the hardships of womanhood. Pain. Ripping hair out of body, tearing away. Flesh. Smooth, silky flesh, heaven between my legs. Flesh, soft as feathers, long and lean and sexy Sexy legs. Rip flesh, pluck, tweezer, wax, thread Beauty is pain Rip flesh, so I can be beautiful […]
2018
All my blog posts from 2018.
Why you should avoid iWriter
Three years ago I came across this site called iWriter, which pays you to write articles for clients. Sounded great, right? Well. You have to earn a minimum of twenty US dollars – which equates to eleven quid in GBP. Their articles are EXTREMELY badly paid. How it works is […]
Jungle Fever: Race, Gender and Drug Addiction
One of my favourite movies is Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever. I’ve seen the film maybe four or five times now, and each time I watch it I marvel more and more at what a masterpiece it is. It says so much in just under two hours about race relations, gender, […]
Vicky Angel: A metaphor for schizophrenia?
I just re-read a Jacqueline Wilson book I haven’t read in years, called Vicky Angel. At the time of reading it – I must have been nine or ten – I took it very literally. ‘Vicky Angel’ is about a girl named Jade whose best friend Vicky dies in an […]
Thoughts on cat-calling
I’ve mentioned cat-calling in some of my other blog posts, and this post may include different opinions from views I’ve mentioned previously as ideas are always evolving. A random facebook post I saw earlier from some girl made me think more about this topic. She mentioned that she had been […]
The Little Mermaid: 1st vs 2nd film
Growing up I loved Disney films, and I still do. I adored both the first and second Little Mermaid movies. Earlier I watched them both in reverse order; I wanted to watch the second one anyway, and then felt like watching the first one. In my mind it worked like […]