When family privilege is used as a weapon I think that’s what’s shitty, not open and honest communication about an unavoidable change of circumstances.
A Friendship Died Waiting for Something “Urgent”
I trusted someone beyond reason. Believed their words while their actions screamed red flag, in this case the world was coloured red, yet I still hoped years.
An Unexpected Encounter: It’s a Rat Choosing My Underwear
Something parkoured off the back of my chair. A rat bounced on my shoulder with a squeal of joy, & dived out the open window. Oblivious to the three story drop.
Move After Abuse: She Pretended Love While Smearing Lies Under Her Stiletto
I cant even have a private conversation about my lived experience without being threatened, talked about online, or now a court case. But I will speak my truth.
Church Going Has Never Been a Happy Experience
Church has never been a happy place for me. It’s not meant to be I hear you murmur under your breath. It’s where you worship, revere god you correct my innocent musing. I call bullshit. Its simply a place of manipulation, narcissism and predatory behaviour. Which church? Every church? Religion to my humble mind, the organised kind, is simply rounding …
Muddling Through Life, When Your Mother Teaches Everyone But You
Once I left home at sixteen. Once I wasn’t living with my mother I had no real connection with her until she died, and by then I was out of the country.
Scary Creepy, Crawly, Crittery Things Terrified Me During Mourning Time
Alone at the farm was my worst nightmare. When I arrived back home after B died, it was me and the creepy critters for the next nine months.
Finding Out My Long-Term Partner Was HIV Positive Was Devastating
I had some education around HIV before my partner became ill. But nursing her was an intimate experience and opened up possibilities for me to become infected.
Started With Wildlife Volunteering, Bus Strike, & No Way Home
Volunteering with wildlife is not for the weak, in South Africa at least. It was a 15,000 acre sanctuary still being converted from farmland.
A Stink-Badger, The Beach, Bamboo, & The Need For Gasmasks
There was a family of stink-badgers living under the bamboo floor. The dogs found them one morning & our little home was filled with the smell of hells sewers.