Christmas time is just another designated period of the year that is an excuse for a bit of flamboyance, such as theatre. Every family has their own little traditions when it comes to this time of year and my family is no different. Since I was little, I can remember…

If you haven’t heard of this literary genius then let me introduce you to Langston Hughes. Hughes is credited with being one of the most prolific and iconic writers in the Harlem Renaissance through his poetry and the rest of his collected works. …

There are only a few works in which I have laughed aloud while reading. Bridget Jones, the Louise Rennison Collection and, now, Oreo. Each page is overflowing with humour and wit with a musicality that dances through your mind. You don’t feel as though you are reading at all. …

I feel quite silly just sitting here, looking at you all wrapped up. If I had waited just a few months more you would’ve been wrapped up in a pretty blue or pink or yellow muslin cloth, your face all red and splotchy. You would have been handed over to…

Sometimes you cry yourself to sleep. It’s part of growing up. Because you’ll get led on by boys. And rumours will be made up. And you’ll swallow pills and realise your mistake. So you’ll go to the toilet and make yourself throw them up. Sometimes it’s okay to cry yourself…

I wish I didn’t feel these things at all. I’ve gone through periods in life feeling numb. Not like a punch or a poke, I’d feel that. Physically. But happiness, joy, sadness and hate. I don’t feel those. When those moments hit, it’s like a plateau of melancholy soaked numbness…

The digital age we find ourselves in today enables relationships of all shapes and sizes to be formed. By merely increasing the sheer amount of footfall we get with digitalised human interaction, the probabilities of meeting someone that your attracted to, and who is mutually attracted to you too, increases…

As I let the feelings of my first official break-up wash over me, I am struck with feeling a tad confused. Underwhelmed if truth be told. Disney movies prepared me for screaming, crying and the inevitable weight gain when I drown my sorrows by eating my feelings with gallons of…

‘By definition it is not sex work if it involves coercion or abuse’[1]. Prostitution in the UK is not illegal[2]; however, related activities such as soliciting, kerb crawling, pimping and brothel owning are criminalised. Given the exchanging of sexual services for money is legal in the United Kingdom it; therefore…