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“That’s a nice stick,” I told my neighbour Andrea, on my way to the forest. She was on her way back, wielding a lovely stick cloaked in...

Eczema was always my warning signal - it still is. But I had to learn, over many years and a lot of work, to befriend these warnings...

This 11 March marks the ten year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It was the first day of my exams at Oxford, and two...

what's the world like now asked my father from his bed and my mother there next to him lying still, nearly dead it's winter now, i tell...

What is your relationship with anger? My life has been characterised by it, except that until this year, I didn't realise it was an...

I first started writing this in October 2019, aware of the role that ‘preventative injections’ (from hereon referred to as V due to heavy...

It is getting harder in all directions It's harder to speak And harder to stay silent Being pressed into corners To maintain the cooling...

Politeness Not only is an armour for cowardly individuals But an active colonial violence That has caused the collapse of families,...

One atom bomb drops, And another. A nation defined in chaos Wounds that take Aeons to heal Generations of questions Hang In silence, we...

audio version The privilege of contemplating privilege The privilege of education The oppression of education The privilege of oppression...

Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:54 The words white privilege, antiracism, and white supremacy are being thrown around without a proper inquiry...

It is not enough to simply coexist. We must interact, engage, discuss. This will involve clashes and disagreements.

We are individually unique combinations of our ancestors vibrating with an orchestra of frequencies. And yet we are simultaneously ancient.

I spent one autumn on a rice farm in the depths of Kyushu's "hell" valleys where the land heaves with forces from the underworld, hot...

written on 21 March 2020 ~ As dusk falls, the whole world, Navy and still, two short months,  and a century ago A mist clung to our...

Nine years since the great mythical catfish writhed beneath Japan and engendered a roll of energy which life has been riding ever since....