Tag: Sister

When I was 5 my sister found me marking out all the black children in a Sears catalogue of playground equipment with a big red X. She told me later in life that in that moment she taught me this wasn’t something we did to people…X them out. I don’t remember that moment, ...

The default response to the Oct 7 rapes/atrocities/massacre from women’s organisations, and from representatives like Reem Alsalem, tasked with fighting male violence against women, was not what I’d expected – an outpouring of outrage at the perpetrators an...

This is the most painful piece of memory I have. It has been penetrating my mind since 1996. I can’t blame this trauma on generational inheritance or narcissistic abuse. This was something fresh, tailor-made for me — something of my doing alone. If I believed in Karma — and I te...