What Christmas means to those without a family
As Christmas is often exclusively about family, for those without that like me, it can feel like a day of loneliness magnified.
Why I’m done with people giving me a nickname without my permission
It’s not my name and I’m fed up that, even as adults, we’re still normalising this behaviour
My dad only wanted to help kids in Rwanda, but when I met the people he had helped, I understood the impact of white saviourism
12 years after my dad's death, I returned to Rwanda to meet the boy he had sponsored and see the impact of his actions.
Writing The Other: Can literature escape the criticism of cultural appropriation?
Imagination might be key to fiction, but during a time of reckoning in regards to race, how much longer will literature remain out there alone, when other forms of entertainment have moved on?
Is There Any Way Back Now For Catalan Independence?
Local Catalans believe that Madrid’s behaviour towards Catalonia have left Spain’s richest region with no choice but to declare independence.