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For those of us not in a position to indulge in ski holidays or luxury pilgrimages to the Caribbean sun, let us instead take a holiday from being so tough on ourselves this New Years and pursue a more forgiving mantra of new year, kinder…

I returned from volunteering overseas this summer with two significant problems; nits and unemployment. Now truly at the threshold of adult life, embound in stigma and accessorized with dirty buzzwords plucked from early and later years…

So Leonardo finally won an Oscar. Experienced camera men caught the exuberant reaction of a crowd whose emotion is otherwise so tightly rehearsed. TV viewers clapped with pride, feeling a sense of ownership over this awaited award. In…

Can a feminist wear make up? Feminism is a delicate term. A delicate term reserved often for strong women. Women who, like their pubic hair, will be plucked and tugged and torn from their roots, and grow back stronger each time. A…

Laid flat on my back in excruciating, debilitating, nauseating pain, each blood vessel sensitive as a xylophone key repeatedly being thumped off-tempo, I think of the cliché; ‘I would not wish this on my worst enemy.’ And as I debate…