2016.
In case you’re bored of seeing all your friends having a wonderful time / Xmas / life in comparison to yours… here’s my self indulgent round
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HEARDinLONDON
- Nov 9, 2016
Reclaim the power
Trump’s rhetoric was filled with lies and hatred. Predominantly aimed at people of colour, women and minorities. This appealed to a lot...
HEARDinLONDON
- Aug 24, 2016
No
When you treated my “No” like a negotiable currency
You disrespected wombs which grew men.
Our ancestors remember behaviour like yours...
HEARDinLONDON
- Aug 19, 2016
It’s a date
A needle pierced your beautiful flesh
scoring ink under your skin
to commit your life to another woman.
HEARDinLONDON
- Jun 1, 2016
Vegans? We’ve gotta talk.
I commend your dedication. I think you are right.
But the messaging has gone astray. Really astray. This hostile aggression...
HEARDinLONDON
- May 31, 2016
If there is anything I can do, let me know
If there’s one thing I have learnt, it’s that it is far easier to decline help than to ask for it. Show up with food. Collect photographs...
HEARDinLONDON
- Jan 31, 2016
A penny drop of freedom
I just had one of those penny-drop moments, where the brick wall I have been pushing against just turned to glass. I have not shattered it.
HEARDinLONDON
- Dec 2, 2015
5 Actions You Can Take to Create a More Peaceful World
We tumble back towards another war, there are some things that we, people who oppose military intervention...
HEARDinLONDON
- Nov 15, 2015
On flags and indignation and guilt tripping
Facebook is awash with Tricolour faces I have to squint to see, which feels darkly emblematic right now. This morning my mind started...
HEARDinLONDON
- Sep 6, 2015
Three simple things you can do to help refugees
Yes donating cash, time and resources may help the immediacy, but how can we prevent this being a repeating story? There are three...
HEARDinLONDON
- Jan 10, 2015
Je suis l’Amour
In a week filled with hate and horror, fear and anger and finger pointing, it is essential that each of us, and I’m talking specifically...
HEARDinLONDON
- Nov 30, 2014
All Lives Matter
If you can recognise and admit that and how the systems which benefit few are very much part of the problem, you can go about becoming a par
HEARDinLONDON
- Oct 4, 2014
Defeating Youtube Terrorism
An idea for punishment befitting the crime of taking another life: the perpetrator should have to spend as long as it takes, listening to...
HEARDinLONDON
- Sep 29, 2014
Where where you when you heard the news?
I feel like I am stealing from another woman in need. And why is that? Because I know there is just not enough for all...
HEARDinLONDON
- Sep 27, 2014
The Tiniest Things
“Did you get any nice presents?” I asked.
“My cousin made me a bracelet” she said, pointing to jumble of loom bands proudly adorning her...
HEARDinLONDON
- Sep 26, 2014
The Fall
For the next time around.
Welcome Autumn.
I am ready for you now.
HEARDinLONDON
- Aug 16, 2014
On Looting
The looting in the Ferguson suits the media and the police just fine.
It changes the narrative from the devastated community to the wild..
HEARDinLONDON
- Aug 9, 2014
I doth protest
Don’t go on a demonstration against conflict and then come and bitch to me about how much you hate that bloke at work.
HEARDinLONDON
- Mar 7, 2014
In pursuit of happiness
Happiness is not something to pursue, it’s something to be, to listen to and to act upon.
HEARDinLONDON
- Jan 21, 2014
21st January 2014
It was a beautiful morning, the day you weren’t born.
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