So today’s new thing is I submitted a collection of six of my poems to University of Illinos’ literary journal the Ninth Letter. Although I am well aware that nothing will probably come of any of this I think the main thing is that I am trying to make a positive change in my life […]
Tag: society
In this post-Capitalist society where you are judged it seems on purely monetary and aesthetic terms what are you worth when society deems you to be invisible? Since becoming wheelchair bound this is a question that I ponder a lot. The way disability is portrayed by the popular press in recent years is one that […]
Unless you’ve been living somewhere with zero access to (any form of) media, you cannot help but be affected by the horrific images from Woolwich this week. On Wednesday afternoon, Drummer, Lee Rigby, a member of our armed forces, was literally hacked to death on a “normal” London street. This man’s crime? Nothing more than being […]