Yearly Archives: 2026

As black peoples we can go through periods of extreme loneliness, but if we can sit with this and work through to a space of existential solitude, then new gateways to love and relationship internally and externally.

The phrase ‘Emotional Intelligence’ is so overused that it could be considered a joke. Yet, when we factor in social constructions of identity, then how form does E.I. actually take. This partly personal blog explores this facet of our lives, our emotional world.

I promised you a blog from my break and this is it. Whenever I go away I always feel so much more able to be myself. The Black body holds so much hate received from others. This blog explores the somatic experience of racism.

Envy is a prevalent in experiences of racism for the other as any other emotion. Yet, it is one emotion which we often do not like to consider when we weigh up just how the subject sees itself in relationship to his racialised counterpart. This blog explores this theme, considering their link.

Black Men often have a right to be angry. Yet, even given the treatment we receive from society, we are often silent, suppressing our anger from the world. This month, I want to explore the systemic barriers to expressing this emotion, and look at how individuation for Black men involves accessing and owning their anger.

On the 14th of August, Professor Arday was found dead at his home in London, after enduring weeks of speculation and investigations into his academic qualifications and his life. This blog, calls out some of the racism behind his treatment, and asks us to all sit and think about our role in his sad passing.

Whiteness hates to feel shame. Yet, that doesnt mean it is absent of shame. This blog looks at just how shame is cast out, and how actually owning the shame of one’s experiences means that one, that we, can all start to see the other instead of use the other.

Black people, we are not allowed to be angry. Yet there is a gift within our passion, our rage, our fire, which if we can own can set us on the right path. This blog looks at our Fire, at Black Fire.

Respect is an odd phenomenon. Many of us experience the lack of respect afforded to us, no matter how hard we have worked, our achievements, our gender, race or sense of otherness. This months blog explores respect, those who dictate it, and where it should actually come from.

This second anniversary blog for the book #Mockingbird considers where we are now, the political and therefore psychological polarities which plague us and society, and how we might approach working with these.