Love? Life? Joy!
I’ve just moved to a city several thousand miles from home. I am all set-up with my own place and have settled into my new job. I am enjoying exploring Beijing’s streets, galleries, cafes, and shops – I spend a lot of my free time wandering around on my bike or on foot, getting my bearings and seeing new places.... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland
I don’t know about yours, ladies and gents, but my breasts are a complete nuisance. Every day, I have to strap them up in reinforced cotton scaffolding and spend a lot of my time at work readjusting when it starts to rub and pinch in places. Anyone who wears a bra will tell you that the most glorious feeling at... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Rant
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!
So, ladies, after over 4 years of being single and going on numerous dates with a good number of men – some more disastrous than others (see my previous blogpost for some hilarious context) – a quite remarkable person fell into my lap unexpectedly and I am now officially attached. Joy! My new leading man is funny, intelligent, kind, gorgeous... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Love & Relationships
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!
Hello, my name is Rhian – and I love One Direction. Okay, I’ll be honest with you from the start. This is not entirely about One Direction (if it was, this would be a dissertation).This is actually about accepting yourself, not bringing each other down, and the power of young girls. My first impression of One Direction is hardly worth... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Fire me up baby! From the Heart Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
There comes a time when we depart the normal world and enter… the world of work! Welcome to the business world: the world of corporate buzzwords, LinkedIn and ego massaging. If you have ever done a bit of copy writing or gone to a writing workshop, you may have been told to cut out the jargon. This is so important and... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Becky Solomon Fire me up baby! Rant
It’s been a tough couple of weeks – I’m incredibly homesick (something my nomadic mindset found very hard to deal with!), the weather has been so vile and I work so many hours that my nature-loving, mountain-climbing self has been bound by four walls for what seems like eternity. There have been tears, lots of tears, and there has been a significant... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Lauren Williams
We ALL feel jealous from time to time. I mean it’s totally okaaaay to despise your ex for finding love before you. It’s finnnnne to wanna bitch slap your colleague for getting the promotion you worked all year for. I completely get your desire to usurp the lead in the school play because blatantly you were born to play that starring role –... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Love & Relationships Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement Wise up! Yazmin Joy