When addressing the issues of gender inequality - or really any inequality - in my experience one of the most damaging tools is language. As children we’re frequently taught that while “sticks and stones may break my bones, words can never harm me.” This may have been one of the most misleading lessons of my … Continue reading Sticks and Stones.
When people think about illness, what so often comes to mind are images of physical ailments and worn-down bodies. We imagine viruses, hospitals full of people with IV drips, wounds that we can see and touch. What is often neglected and not considered with the weight that it truly deserves, is illness of the mind. … Continue reading We can’t do it alone.
I found myself recently – during one of my daily walks – in the old stomping ground of my abuser (as I write the word abuser I have to resist the ingrained urge to put inverted commas around it – because is he an abuser if he never really hit me, and he never really … Continue reading Who are my abusers?
Bad Feminist 