Love? Life? Joy!
Since it’s the New Year, I’m sure many of you have made resolutions and, for some, one of those might be to write your first novel. Last year, after getting rejected by numerous publishers, I decided to self publish my first book: Beyond The Luna. It did extremely well for a debut novel – hitting the best seller list on iTunes and... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Wise up!
Last week I made a series of cock ups I’d like to get off my chest. Monday: Cock up 1 Some of you may have already noticed this total tits-arse-wanker balls up on my Twitter feed or Facebook page, and if you did, thank you for not pointing it out to me. I really appreciate it. I kicked off 2015 by... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Wise up! Yazmin Joy
At the weekend, my sisters and I took my brother out clubbing. He’s just turned 18 and wasn’t sure what to expect. Being the youngest and only boy in our household, he’s been mollycoddled a lot by my mum. She kept nagging him to eat before we went out and told him not to drink anything. She seems to have... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Poppy Gillian Wise up!
Nicki Minaj had a massive year in 2014. With everyone talking about her big ol’ butt (her words), which was in full view – literally – across the media, it was pretty hard to ignore her. She’s been on my radar for several years now (that brilliant voice, those insane lyrics, y’know?), but until last year, I hadn’t given Minaj... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Fire me up baby! Wise up!
Italian video journalist Luca Lavarone stops various young boys in a busy street. They are all between the ages of nine and eleven. He then asks them a series of questions. Name…. Age…. What they want to be when they grow up. Then he introduces a girl into the frame. *Girl enters.* He asks the boys what they think of the girl.... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Wise up! Yazmin Joy
Picture this. You’re late for the bus and you’re running like a mad person waving your travel card in the air for the bus to halt and take you on board. You then reach the bus: out of breath, and dwelling on how unfit you are and how another day in the gym would have not gone amiss. You’re then... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Rant Sana Sarwar Wise up!
Over the weekend, I read in the news that Obama’s teenage girls were on the receiving end of some Twitter abuse for not being dressed ‘respectfully’ enough. Elizabeth Lauten, Communications Director for Republican Stephen Fincher, criticised the girls’ characters, based on their attire: ‘Dress like you deserve respect – not a spot at a bar’. Interesting, I thought. If that... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Becky Solomon Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Fire me up baby! Wise up!
Beauty: a word associated in this day and age with big hair, fake nails, silicon and being a size zero. But what ever happened to raw natural beauty? Why do women nowadays feel exposed and bare if they have no makeup on? Well, the answer is simple and it saddens me to say we feel the need to fit society’s... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Fire me up baby! Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Sana Sarwar Wise up!
The year 2014 brought slang terms such as ‘basic’ and ‘bae’ into the mainstream spotlight. And ironically it also ushered in a new term on my side of the pond: Columbusing. As seen in this satirical College Humor video, Columbusing happens when the dominant culture (most of the time this refers to people of European descent) adopts elements from non-dominant cultures,... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Erin Johnson Rant Wise up!
Birthdays are funny things, aren’t they? We spend the first 21 years of our lives looking forward to it, and then each year after that less and less so. On my fourteenth birthday I got a guinea pig. On my recent twenty-fourth birthday I spent the day discussing sexual health with teenagers in college (I shouted out the word ‘masturbation’... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Poppy Gillian Wise up!