Month: September 2017

• Sheep in Wolf Clothing

  I suppose it has always happened -there’s very little that’s really new around; I still wonder why it’s necessary, though. Even through the lens of my white male privilege –my through-a-glass-darkly upbringing- I continue to wonder about these things. Why, for example, do I even have a lens? Was it necessary simply because in the […]

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  September 27, 2017

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  BBC news, boundaries, challenges, chromosomal lottery, fairy tales, famous historical women, gender barriers, Hildegard von Bingen, history, Invictus, Jeremiad, Mererani, mining, need to be a man, Tanzania, tanzanite, walls, white male privilege, William Ernest Henley

• Different Flavours

  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy –so says Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I suppose as one ages, there is a tendency to become, if not indifferent, then less surprised at the plethora of variations that exist when they are sought, less amazed at the range of combinations […]

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  September 20, 2017

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  adoption, Age, ambiguous genitalia, BBC news, Bell curve, break the sweet potato, childbirth, difference, flavours, gynaecologist, Hamlet, hermaphrodite, historical revisionism, intersex, Kenya, Luo language, midwives, normal, rainbow, Robert Frost, Seline Okiki, Shakespeare, society, spectrum, The Road Not Taken, the Ten Beloved Sisters, traditional beliefs, traditional birth attendants, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human RIghts, Zainab

• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

  There is a time, a dark time, when normal daylight thoughts are banished. A time when what remains are skeletal shadows, atavistic remnants of ancestral fears, unbidden fragments of anchorless dread which in the fullness of a sunlit day, are sheer cotton. -translucent at their best. It is when doors are left ajar and watchmen […]

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  September 13, 2017

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  All’s Well That Ends Well, angst, BBC news, bipolar disease, deafblindness, educational support, empathy, Man’s Search for Meaning, mental health support, Molly Watt Trust, night blindness, panic attacks, Shakespeare, social life, solitary confinement, speech therapy, teenage social needs, Usher syndrome, Victor Frankl

• The Temple of Clothes

  I caught someone inspecting me the other day. Okay, it wasn’t an inspect exactly –it was more of a look… Well, maybe a glance, but it bothered me all the same. I could feel her eyes doing a quick little dance on me. They started on my mud-caked running shoes, before appraising the hem of […]

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  September 6, 2017

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  Afghanistan, anticipatory dresser, chador, clothes, eyes, forest, inspection, names, Pashto, trail, translator, vocabulary, woods