Recently got back into my creative flow and here’s a little something I’m working on about feeling stuck while everyone keeps going and all you want to do is press pause on life, but you can’t. The flowers keep blooming, the birds keep chirping each morning and evening routinely day in, day out repeatedly like…
Unveiling the Architectural Dystopia: Aesthetic Void in Modern Design
Walking around newly built areas, one can observe a lack of identity and character in the architecture of these places. Recent times have seen a rise in minimalist and uniform architecture, with numerous buildings adopting identical forms. As a result of their similar architectural styles, individual structures become lost in the masses, creating an impression…
Liberal Feminism Under Scrutiny: Addressing the Unresolved Issues
Feminism, the belief in equality amongst the sexes, politically, socially, and financially. A simple term so anger-inducing, so often misconstrued, villainised. Yet, feminism is but a way to ensure that all humans are equal to others regardless of sex or gender, a small stepping stone in all the factors that cause inequalities that exist in…
Sexual Violence Used as Military Strategy in Ukraine: What Does This Say About Society?
An article I poured by heart and soul into and sacrificed sleep for my school newspaper which was flagged for being ‘inappropriate’ and containing ‘too strong opinions,’ so I’m posting here instead xx Trigger Warning: Mention of Rape and Sexual Assault As early as April last year, merely two months after the outbreak of Russia’s…
A Feminine Monstrosity
Another poem, this time written in a raging storm of spite and anger at men and what society has made women into. She is beauty, She is grace. Yet if she speaks out of place, She is a sententious, smashmouth, silly schoolgirl. *** She is elegance and taste. Yet if she is no longer innocent…
Living Ghosts
A poem written on an obscure, thunderous day in the comfort of a ginger cat at my feet and a hot chocolate in hand, after a meagre day of incessant learning. Ghosts are not only the spirits of those whose consciousness leaves us, And depart into the red lands. Nor are they merely of those…