African Renaissance
Mental health: Sexuality and the multi-polar state of love and trust
I love you in a space and time like no other. You are older. I am
younger. Does it matter? I dress for you. I...
Running with Lithium
Head made of stone sound the alarm for here hallucinations abound like
driftwood, a gull sweeping through the sky overhead. In the photograph her skin
is...
My struggles with depression and finding lasting romantic love
These are things that make me happy. The stars brightness turns in the
air. Dandelions. Reading Hemingway. The pouring rain. A switched off
television. The magical...
My best friend is my psychiatrist
I’ll leave
the pain for tomorrow. Won’t even think about it until tomorrow. That is, if
tomorrow ever comes. So, I walk in the present, barefoot,...
The African Renaissance- poets
The Dutch poet Joop Bersee, has been
gifted confidante to me, selfless mentor, and I’ve have come to the beliefs,
the norms, the value of the...
What Emily Dickinson can teach us
The sun is a laughing, talking, walking
miracle today. If it shines, it shines only for me and Lavinia. What
perfection, because it shines with an...
Amherst
How am I supposed to live without father?
He is passed. Gone into the hereafter. He is never to return. While, yes, I am
still very...
Africa: The next chapter begins
How does a continent decline? Corruption.
Misappropriation of funds. Leadership, where leadership, the leaders of South
Africa, or the leaders of a particular individual African country,...
The captive spirit: Bipolar creativity and genius
We are seduced by
people, individuals’ who achieve extraordinarily. I never thought I would be
living the life that I am living now. I am literally...
Feminist Technoscience
‘Networked
feminism is a phenomenon that can be described as the online mobilization and
coordination of feminists in response to perceived sexist, misogynistic,
racist, and other discriminatory...