Tag: abuse

• All That Glitters

  “My uncle wants to come,” Jasmin announced as she sat in the hard wooden chair by my desk, looking worried. She was almost due, and as her obstetrician, I was seeing her for what she hoped might be her final prenatal visit. She wanted to know how many people could be present in the delivery […]

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  July 30, 2019

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  abuse, Aeon.co, Edith Hall, ethical relativism, heroes, historical revisionism, Julian Baggini, musingsonwomenshealth.com, philosophy, prejudice, prenatal visits, social milieu

• The Kingdom of the Blind

    Sometimes, after waking up from a troubled sleep, it occurs to me that I live in a world to which I have become so accustomed that I wander down its streets like a horse with blinders. I see those things at which I am pointed and accept what I am told about the rest […]

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  June 7, 2017

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  abuse, acting roles, actors, appropriate interpretations, BBC 4 podcast, blinders, Body Count Rising, crime programs, documentary, necrophilia, producers, rape depiction, reality, victims, violence against women, writers

• The Serpent’s Egg

  We all see the world through our own experiences, paint it with our own colours, fly our own flags. They seem real to us –unique and even necessary to our identities. As if it’s enough to be simply what we wear; as if we are only what we’ve been taught to show. But sometimes we […]

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  February 21, 2017

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  abuse, accusations, antenatal form, Australia, BBC news, consensual sex, domestic violence, gender-based violence, male privilege, poetry, pregnancy, privilege, Shakespeare, talking points, The Winter’s Tale, unintended pregnancy

• The Grief that does not Speak

  How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Like Hamlet, we all recognize this mood: the black dog lying in the noonday sun, the cloud that even hides the moon. It is the tear that defeats the wavering smile –and yet… And yet, there is often something more […]

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  November 23, 2016

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  abuse, Antidepressant medication, depression, doctors, GP, Gynaecology, Hamlet, Khalil Gibran, lens of depression, listening, sadness, Shakespeare, talking, the black dog