On arthritis and diagnosis
Here’s my latest column for the Nelson Mail, ‘My illness finally has a face‘, where I talk about being diagnosed with Ankolysing Spondylitis – inflammatory arthritis in my spine.
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Beauty, sex and disability
This is kind of a part two to my previous piece on body image, health, and feminism. In that piece, I started to look at my beliefs about body image, where Continue Reading →
Food, fat and feminism: why eating is another fight
I think about food a lot. I love food. The fact that that feels like a guilty confession is one of the reasons I want to write about this.
Just play nice
I am exceedingly unkind to myself.
A note on politics
My latest column for the Nelson Mail was about women in politics, and the lack of interest in Nelson as a political region.
GiggleTV – your sexist jokes are not making me laugh
This might seem pretty small in the scheme of things, but I want to draw your attention to something that’s been upsetting me for a while. It’s called “GiggleTV.”
Finally… Diagnosis
Today I found out I have Ankylosing Spondylitis. Arthritis in my spine.
Can you help?
Two days ago I got an email from a very frightened sounding woman. I want to help her. Can you help?
It is all loneliness
One line might not be enough to build a life on It probably isn’t enough to pay for bread, and milk One line might be the echo, the Continue Reading →
Stop telling me how to get well
Coconut water, oxygen chambers, rescue remedy, aquajogging, Vitamins A, B, K, and Zinc, more sleep, less sleep, kefir, raw food, cultured food, super greens, no greens, all greens.