it takes an entire village to raise a man
Guante is one of my favourite spoken word poets. This is an excerpt: Moving Train She doesn’t say it but I see it in her movements A gentle hesitance whenever we’re in tune with The rhythm of each other’s music, it must be She… Continue Reading “You’re not really innocent …”
Mental or physical abuse is unacceptable under any circumstance. Domestic violence has to be stopped. Male vs female abuse has to stop. Female vs male abuse has to stop. I don’t want to debate which gender is the worst nor which gender suffers the… Continue Reading “Without Victim Blaming”
I really do try hard to see the good in everyone. I have to believe it to be true but as I watch the accusations being thrown around gender issues and how people seem to need to find someone to blame, someone to punish,… Continue Reading ““We think too much and feel too little …””
Sometimes it seems that we are in a battle to prove who is hurting the most. Women are hurting more than men. Ethnic minorities are hurting. LGBT people are hurting. Religious minorities, political refugees, the poor … The only ones that are not hurting… Continue Reading “Who’s hurting?”
I had been wanting to do a speech for a few years but I had always held back because it dealt with suicide and male suppressed emotions, a hard topic. There is still a bit of a taboo around the subject of suicide, no… Continue Reading “Pain, discomfort and making a difference”