Stigma is you and me
Last weekend I visited my friend in Helsinki and we went to see Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography at Kiasma, a museum of contemporary...
On voluntourism
When I posted a status on Facebook announcing that I would be fundraising £800 for Progressio in order to volunteer in Malawi, I got an...
What do you miss when you miss home
There were three things that I missed from home when I was in Malawi - on the whole, quite a low number considering the vastly different...
Dancing!
During our orientation week in Lilongwe, we had the first of many parties with satchets (poison in a bag), Carlsberg (because that’s the...
White people - selfish superhumans
Did you know that white people are superhumans? Nor did I, until we sat down under a mango tree in Dunduzu with my colleague Ken and a...
All body issues and no real issues makes the world a dull place
There’s nothing new about characterising Western culture as superficial and focused on appearance. As a culture, we shame, worship and...
The #ashtag (or, how I learned to stop checking my phone constantly and love unfragmented time)
My journey back from Malawi took its sweet ass time due to nonsensical layovers and delays, and when I finally got on the underground at...
