BOOK REVIEW: Harriet The Spy-Louise Fitzhugh: Flinch, Harriet
‘Harriet the Spy’ is about a 11 year old girl who is gagged by family & system and forced into therapy. Reading helped me crystallise my own identity crisis.
Pop Culture
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Poets Talk — Quoted In The Afternoon Despath & Courier ‘More Power To Poetry’
I was quoted alongside other poets in a media story about powerful poetry.
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Hey Men, Here’s A Women’s Day Gift From Me To You
Last week, after I performed a piece about women, I was verbally attacked & threatened by a man. This is how others reacted.
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Sorry I Didn’t Wait Till 8 March To Speak
Yesterday I was introduced on stage by a misogynist host. After I performed a piece about womanhood, another man began harassing me.
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Aren’t You Glad I’m Not Carrie?
I read ‘Carrie’ by Stephen King. In the same week, I received an invitation to a school alumni meet.
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The Showwoman Under The Paper Plane
Paper Plane & coffee
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Poem For An Ex I May Have Told You About
I had a chance to get this off my chest last year. I’m so grateful for the stage giving me a chance to voice things that had been eating away my insides for too long. I’ve been silenced by well-meaning friends and others who are just inconvenienced by anything other…
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And Then There Was Music
I sang. There was music.
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On Losing A Voice And Remembering How To Speak Again
Men will never stop attacking my right to speak. My voice is my only weapon and my sole identity.
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I Wear: Bohemian Rockstar
I was featured in an event themed ‘Women Empowerment’. And my look was a fashion-forward, sex-positive rockstar.
