You have a little cruel streak
How come you’re never smiling when I look at you?
You have very soft hands
No one will love you with thighs that fat
One in ten people are asthmatics, and three people die of asthma in the UK every day, although many cases of asthma are not as severe. These numbers look like 300 million patients and 250,000 deaths a year around the world.
Where is the fine line between encouraging a certain way of living, and forcing a certain image? An image that undoubtedly never fails to glorify habits that are unhealthy for the self, and others. Social norms and new standards of manhood are constantly growing and manifesting unfortunate levels of toxicity among men, pressuring an uphold of certain appearances that are becoming difficult for a man to maintain.
A woman walking the streets at night. A girl playing with her hula hoop. Another woman standing in the shadows. Which one is you?
The phone rang. I picked it up. I cried. I’d been interviewing for a publicity assistant position at an independent publishing house. It was the ….
Lava on the tips of your gown you come forward, angels drown gathered under the eclipsed sun crumbling castles collapse behind you molten clouds gush ….
Alina: A Song for the Telling by Malve von Hassell tells the story of Alina, a 14-year-old girl in 12th century France who has lost ….
If I said the word ‘housewife’, the first thing that would come to mind is a woman who doesn’t work. Digging even deeper, perhaps a ….
Have you ever imagined what it’d be like to live life trapped within four walls? A year ago none of us really thought much about this until it happened and we were told to stay inside.
We’re drawing close to the Regional Independent Bookshop of the Year Award at the British Book Awards, with the shortlisted shops chosen. Obviously, the past year has been very different from usual, for all of us but especially for bookshops! To find out more, I wanted to get in touch with some of my favourite shortlisted bookshops, asking what they had been up to over the past year and how it had worked.