Freddie’s Thots
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November 2020
An armoured truck rolls through the city traffic on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. A man is perched in a hole in its middle, looking through the scope of an M21 rifle. Everyone goes about their day around it like normal.… Continue reading
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How the Bar Course Tried to Kill Me
It had been about two years since I’d last engaged in formal education when I joined the bar course. Initially, I had decided against studying the bar, and detoured instead towards a career in film and writing, content with my… Continue reading
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A Conversation on Intersectionality
If you have been online these past few days you witnessed the shitstorm that Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie’s essay ‘IT IS OBSCENE’ created. I’m here to address it, because it was especially hurtful to me, these are authors whose work I… Continue reading
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Why you should not just vote, but vote for Bobi Wine.
This post is for our comrades who have lost faith in the power of the ballot. For our friends who say why vote, when we already know the results? Let me start by saying that I know democracy is not… Continue reading
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A “Dicko.” The role of the gender binary in shaping conventional societal attitudes towards intersex and Gender non-conforming individuals.
Sometime during lockdown, a voice note circulated around mainly twitter. On it, a guy recounted a sexual encounter he had with a girl who happened to have what he called a “dicko”, along with a vagina. I can’t even begin… Continue reading
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Heteronormativity. (Don’t clap, it’s a bad thing)
“Visualize the amount of gay people that you think you might know (but not know, you know?) and triple that number. A lot more of the people you interact with are not heterosexual.” So apparently (legally, I guess?) to call… Continue reading
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The lachrymose siren
She carried her shamisen with her as she travelled from town to town, never staying anywhere too long. And when she arrived in a new place, she would find herself an unoccupied corner next to a parlour to sit and… Continue reading
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A short lesson on consent.
The idea for this post came to me today after I had a conversation with my friends about sex and more specifically, revoking consent. There was a tweet by New vision talking about a new law that could ‘bite’ husbands… Continue reading
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Mom, I’m atheist, for real.
Today is the first Sunday after my mother and I fought over my atheism We’d had the discussion where I’d told her I no longer believed in god, Yahweh, the Christian God or any other god for that matter. But… Continue reading
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The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton Continue reading
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