Yearly Archives: 2021

This month’s blog explores the intersections between systemic patriarchy and white supremacy. Told through the personalised experiences of black pain, this blog calls for allies from those who would see themselves as such but who are unconsciously complicit in the oppression of blackness.

Through the personal, to the collective, this month’s blog explores an experience we all have, that of enduring cultural narcissistic abuse.

This month’s blog is a further exploration of black fatherhood from both a personal and psychological perspective, and is especially relevant in the age of Black Lives Matter.

In this, the third exploration of black masculinity, we now consider the role of adaptation, its drivers both political and social, and how this not only saves black men, but also leads sadly to sense of inauthenticity and loneliness.

Part two of an extensive exploration of the trials and tribulations of the past year, and looks at how this has impacted upon us all.

The CoronaVirus is not so much the cause of the panic we are seeing around the West. It is the lack of direction from those we ask to watch over us, from those we nominate to be our political parents.

This is about us, black men, talking about what love is, and about me opening another doorway to this exploration for us all.

Childhood experiences which helped shape the man I am and who wrote the book Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

This new year was supposed to be a new beginning, a new start, the first steps along the road towards the exit of this pandemic. Yet, here we are in the United Kingdom, under a third national lockdown, prompted by rising infection rates influenced by the mutation of this Covid-19 virus so it has become more infectious, more dangerous to us all.