Being Black XI: Loneliness, Solitude and Love
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.
Individuation and the realities of Emotional Intelligence
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.
Notes from Tunisia: De-Somatising the Black body free from White Supremacy
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.
Explorations of the links between Envy and 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.