Essays
Repairing Lost Time
Oranges Journal, November 2022.
Early March 2021. A mid-week day in lockdown. I had an 11am appointment on Zoom with a psychiatrist to confirm what I already knew to be true. I couldn’t concentrate on anything else whilst I waited […]
How Art Can Give Us Hope in the Dying Days of the Anthropocene
The Everyday Magazine, May 2022
Who dares to feel hope nowadays? In an era defined by climate disaster, Covid 19, and the rise and subsequent normalisation of right-wing politics, hope can be hard to find. […]
Becoming the Invisible Woman - What I am learning about ageing as I get older
The Everyday Magazine, May 2022
A weird thing started happening to me a few years ago, I started to become invisible. It wasn’t everywhere or all of the time - in the private sphere of my life I was still very much solid, visible and three dimensional, but I started to notice it happening occasionally on the public stage, like some sort of glitch. […]
I Don’t Have Depression, I Have Attention Deficit Disorder
The Everyday Magazine, September 2020
Imagine it is 1993. You are 16. You are obsessed with The Face magazine and rave music and you are really good at being an art student, but not much else, it would seem. You have been told all of your life you are crazily clever and you are destined to go far, but you know deep down you don’t have the mental capacity to go very far at all, because you are not perfect enough; they don’t know you really, they got you wrong. […]
A Love Letter to Bristol
The Everyday Magazine, June 2020
I am a middle-aged, middle-class, liberal white woman who has called Bristol home for the last 26 years. I read The Guardian, I love a nice bit of overpriced sourdough with my morning coffee; I am mired in white privilege and I am well aware of this. After the toppling of the Edward Colston statue yesterday I am also very proud of my city, in a time where I can find very little to be proud of in the world. […]
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