[Content warning: this article includes mentions of physical violence on women.] A profile. From the old Italian profilo, from profilare, meaning to sketch lightly, what …
School Girls: Constructing the Past in Fiction and Memory
Back in my hometown due to the coronavirus, in the timelessness of however many months it has been since March, I have been thinking about …
Death of a ballet teacher
“She slipped in the shower and cracked her head open. They just found her lying in a pool of her own blood.” I don’t think …
Time and Punishment
We quantify time in many different ways. If you have ever worked a minimum wage job, you will know that, by some standards, an hour …
A Sign of the Times
Time. The great teacher, the great healer, the greatest ceremony of humanity. Time, coupled with reflection, allows us to grow, to progress, to figure out …
On Time and its Delightful Malleability
To start this article off like a terribly boring wedding toast– Webster’s dictionary defines the word “history” as “events of the past.” Something which when …
Reflections on @standrewssurvivors
‘If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one’-Stanley Tucci as lawyer Mitch Garabedian in Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, …
Magic Realism in the Age of Covid-19
You don’t need me to tell you, as so many news reporters, employers, business owners and governments have so often noted, that we are living …
The Appropriation of Magic: How White People Demonised Voodoo
Last summer I visited New Orleans, the home of Louisiana Voodoo. New Orleans is a city which has a whole tourism industry built on Voodoo, …