Tag: Sister

This is the most painful piece of memory I have. It has been penetrating my mind since 1996. I can’t blame this trauma on generational inheritance or narcissistic abuse. This was something fresh, tailor-made for me — something of my doing alone. If I believed in Karma — and I te...

The times in which Julius Caesar was a senator were very strange and complex. Due to the fact that Roman high society was very complicated and relatively small, it meant that better off Romans knew each other rather well, this sometimes led to complications when two people disagreed and some Romans ...

The default response to the Oct 7 rapes/atrocities/massacre from women’s organisations, and from representatives like Reem Alsalem, tasked with fighting male violence against women, was not what I’d expected – an outpouring of outrage at the perpetrators an...

When I was 5 my sister found me marking out all the black children in a Sears catalogue of playground equipment with a big red X. She told me later in life that in that moment she taught me this wasn’t something we did to people…X them out. I don’t remember that moment, ...