If you want to reap the rewards of the village,it requires effort in return.
“While I have become adept at covering my cognitive impairment,memory loss is still a bewildering mix of frustration,uncertainty and vulnerability.”
In a plea for equity in public toilets I used the phrase “people who menstruate”. Previously we might have said “women”,but how we communicate with each other changes for good reasons.
Unlike human members of the family,my dog is always wildly thrilled to see me.
The impact of disability and illness has the potential to turn any relationship – romantic or otherwise – completely inside out and upside down.
“My son is sufficiently grown up to be independent in the basics,while at the same time sufficiently naïve to still think I am cool.”
For a shamefully long time,I was blissfully unaware of the fat-phobia and discrimination perpetrated by the labels I loved.
Australian women who are mothers earn,on average,5 per cent less than those who are not,writes Jamila Rizvi.
Like it or not,there comes a time when we must talk to our children about the inequality and unfairness in the world.
If you believe,as I do,that women are no more or less inherently cruel to women than people of other genders,what is going on?
They are too young to grasp the inequalities between them and boys such as my son. But soon,those differences will be clear,and as adults their pay packets will be proof.