Reflection on Albert Camus' 'The Outsider'
'The Outsider' is starkly morbid yet the vivid with liberating absurdity.
about me
I am a multimedia trainee journalist for Tindle News, currently working with Midlands 103 whilst living in Ireland.
I am also an NCTJ Diploma in Journalism Student and English Literature Graduate.
Here are my meandering thoughts and opinions, music, media, and book reviews.
I think about interactions in culture, media, history, and the internet, considering broader socio-political and feminist discourse.
At the moment I am dabbling in personal and/or creative essays and poetry, prioritising blog posts and reflections on my life as I see it and experience it.
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periods of limbo
note to self: stop being so consumed by the future that the moment becomes defined by what is precedes!!!
Patti Smith's 'Just Kids'.
It is a memoir in the way the very word ‘memoir’ sounds; seductive, free, romantic, exotic, poetic.
Siri Hustvedt's essays and collage as an allegory
A creative essay using Siri Hustvedt's collection of lectures and reflections, and a collage.
Review of The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye: Complexly intersectional yet crystal clear.
Based on fact and research rather than anecdote, this book is a large window into the facts of the trans experience, and its intersections with socio-political, socio-economic, and societal structures.
on last times, leaving, and time sometimes revealing itself
Leaving somewhere makes time, for a moment, a physical space.
Review of Katy Hessel's 'The Story of Art Without Men'
Hessel removes the clamour and clutter of men from the art world and shows the shining art of women that were and are spoken over.
Eva Takes The Lap With 366 Wild Swims
Review: The autobiographical poetry of 'Notes on Heartbreak' by Annie Lord
In Notes on Heartbreak, Annie Lord delicately captures and commits to paper the acute feelings of love and loss.
More Than Just A Walk In The Park
Interview with Jenny who walked the highest peak in each national park
Hags by Victoria Smith Review
In this passionate memoir-come-manifesto, Victoria Smith analyses the social and political status of older women.
the desperation of writing
Once you start writing your life, putting moments to paper and immortalising them in the process, poetic significance becomes manic desperation, habitual and then addictive.
Louis 'so proud' over restaurant wins
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
I was so late to the party of this book, but I’m glad I held off. Reading it at 22 was perfect.
women's intimate awareness of time
Women's relationship to a month, a week, and time, is different to a man's. Monthly patterns create routine, and time taunts as it passes.
Isla-Mae proves a HIT with foodbank
‘The Sum of Us’ by Heather McGhee
McGhee asks and answers the question: ‘What if racism is driving inequality for all of us?’
A Devonion Time Traveller
An interview with Rosemary Griggs, who's post-retirement career defies time and brings the past to life.
WATCH: Widecombe Show
Highlights from Widecombe Show
wild blackberries and the mindfulness of playing a part in your own food
Searching and tiptoeing for the ripe ones and gently putting them in my container, I understood the countless poems about food, baking, harvest, and seasons.
my charity shop dilemma: when slow fashion starts to speed up
What originally started as a way to save money...has recently become a bit of a retail addiction.
A Roaring Success
Amelia Averis attends Newton Fire's training and interviews Holly Wines, Manager of Teignmouth Ladies, to explore the local response to a national movement.
Photo by Noelle Otto on Pexels
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Perhaps the ponytail can be seen as a 'Feminist Symbol', but we mustn't reduce top-level athletes to their hairstyles
I hoped to read an article on the feminist symbolism of the hairstyle, and its rejection of what the male gaze sees as feminine, but instead, I was met with predictions of the next summer trend.
'Difficult Women' by Helen Lewis
Searching for a way to define feminism, in 1913 Rebecca West wrote ‘I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute’ other feminists have summed it up in a single word: ‘no’.
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