The Great Orange One had rambled out another missive. I forget who the target was this time. But, as usual, it was dripping with hate
Tag: Life
Upholding the right to breastfeed
Hospital keeps exclusively breastfed baby away from her mother Hospital bans exclusively breastfed baby from her mother Wouldn’t those be shock-horror news headlines? Well, it’s
The abiding sting of racism
It’s been almost 30 years since the end of apartheid – and racism is alive and kicking (it kicks and it hurts). V and I
Proudly 60
No, we won’t go quietly One morning a couple of weeks ago, I woke up and I was 60. Just like that. As I do
Escaping the darkness
Three women share their experiences of being gaslighted – and how they got out of it Gaslighting, I once thought, meant finding a source of
What we need now is kindness
Where is the acknowledgement that we are frightened and in pain? Why are we not comforting each other? This reality demands a new kind of
Facing up to the new normal
If you’ve wondered why and how to make masks, then this post is for you. Making facemasks almost broke me. Apparently I saw the need
The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele
Celebrating ordinary people emerging as heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic Long before the dust started settling on the mask-or-not debate, people in Rhodes Village and
What will you do when it comes for you?
Let’s talk about stigma – you know, that nasty human tendency to shame groups of people as outcasts because it makes you feel better than
A tale of two viruses
About 30 years ago, when the first stories about HIV and AIDS emerged, I was a health reporter on the Sunday Tribune in Durban, the