Based on a true story, the film Carrington profoundly changed how I understand love, identity, and LGBTQ+ acceptance. Through the unconventional bond between Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey, I came to realise that love doesn’t follow rules — it simply finds the soul it recognises. This reflection explores how one film helped me walk in another’s shoes and redefined what it means to love and be loved.
Before Madonna struck a pose, Mae West struck a match.
She was the original provocateur — arrested for writing about sex, banned from Broadway for celebrating desire, and censored by Hollywood for refusing to play nice. Yet through wit, glamour, and sheer audacity, she rewrote the rules of womanhood on screen and off.
Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon traces how one woman’s defiance shaped modern feminism, queer aesthetics, and the art of female self-invention.
Walter Rodney was a man killed for telling the truth — that Africa’s poverty and Europe’s prosperity are two sides of the same coin. His groundbreaking book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed how centuries of slavery, colonialism, and corporate exploitation built the modern West on Africa’s stolen wealth. Half a century later, Rodney’s words remain as explosive as ever — a call to confront the systems that still profit from global inequality.
Assata Shakur’s life was one of survival, exile, and defiance. From the bloodied asphalt of the New Jersey Turnpike to political asylum in Cuba, her story is more than history—it is a lesson in resistance. Branded a terrorist by the U.S. yet celebrated worldwide as a freedom fighter, Assata reminds us that a woman’s place is in the struggle, with nothing to lose but our chains.
Motherhood is often framed as a woman’s ultimate purpose, yet for many it becomes the greatest barrier to freedom, ambition, and self-actualization. The Motherhood Mistake: A Cautionary Tale for Women With Dreams challenges the cultural myth that children complete women, exposing instead how motherhood can consume their futures—unless entered from a position of independence and wealth. Drawing from lived experience and feminist critique, this piece serves as both testimony and warning: women with dreams must protect their autonomy first, or risk surrendering it to the unrelenting demands of motherhood.
Stop blaming her libido. This blunt guide puts responsibility on men: safety first, then desire. Learn how consistency, emotional labour, clean leadership and real aftercare switch her body from “guard” to “open”. Ditch jealousy games, repair fast, praise precisely, and design scenes she can choose—so the queen you cherish becomes the freak you meet in bed.
Bonnie Blue’s story isn’t about porn, empowerment, or liberation. It’s about capitalism at its most ruthless — a business model where the product is a person, escalation is the strategy, and the body is the collateral.
From £2 million a month to nothing overnight, from diamond necklaces to bloodshot eyes, from notoriety to genuine danger… This is the race to the bottom. And the end.
Democracy’s decline is no longer a future risk—it is our present reality. From the populist fractures of post-Trump America to Britain’s quiet complicity in the Palestinian genocide, the West’s moral authority has been hollowed out. The credibility of liberal democracy now falters under the weight of its own double standards, creating a vacuum in global leadership. Over the next decade, as institutional trust collapses, a new political current is set to rise: grassroots, populace-driven movements that lean toward socialism. This article examines the erosion of democratic systems, the triggers behind the West’s loss of standing, and the political trajectories that could reshape the world order.
Gaslighting is everywhere. In therapy sessions. On TikTok. In political debates. In messy breakups posted online. But most people using the word have never seen where it came from—or felt the raw weight of its original meaning.
The term didn’t come from a psychology manual. It came from a story. A 1944 film called Gaslight. In it, a husband methodically convinces his wife she’s losing her mind—moving objects, dimming the lights, and denying reality until she doubts everything she knows.
Watching the film is like stepping into the suffocation itself. You feel the erosion of confidence, the rewriting of truth, the calculated isolation. It’s not just a plot—it’s the anatomy of abuse.
Before we dilute gaslighting into a buzzword, we owe it to ourselves—and to survivors—to go back to where it began.
The First World War gave us phrases like ‘over the top,’ ‘no man’s land,’ and ‘zero hour’—born in the mud of the trenches, now casually used in office meetings and sports commentary. The Second World War left its own verbal shrapnel: ‘SNAFU,’ ‘taking flak,’ and ‘loose lips sink ships’—once urgent acronyms and slogans, now part of our daily idioms.