Sixth Sense: The unease I was feeling had been with me for a week now. It was so loud in the pit of my stomach that I was beginning to feel annoyed. The practical side of me was at odds with the spiritual, intuitive side. Generally, the spiritual side wins…

Dying of hunger: I clutched my stomach tightly, willing it to be quiet and stop protesting the lack of food. Not that I could blame it- I hadn’t had food for three days now. I summoned my inner Samson, trying to lift my head from the pillow. The last time…

I can’t breathe — I walk to the shops, my nostrils filled with the stench of teargas and burning tires. At seven years old, I’m too young to understand that my skin colour is not celebrated in this world. All I know is that I can’t breathe. With police officers and army officials constantly…

The Essence of her Presence: If you were to ask me to describe in one word how I feel about my mom’s passing, it would be “confused.” Grief has rendered me incapable of writing for the past month. My mind knows she is no longer with us in the present…

"Stop crying, or I will give you something to cry about," yelled my father. I'm confused. I thought the hiding I had just received was something to cry about. Angrily wiping the tears off my face, I looked at him with a combination of hurt and defiance. "You'd better wipe…

The Voice Inside: The Imprisonment: People who have been incarcerated for years often don't know what to do with their lives once they're set free. It's overwhelming because they've changed and so has the world. They find technology strange and feel inadequate because they don’t know what to do with…

The Missing White Girl Syndrome: The missing white girl syndrome. Definition: Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to the media coverage: especially on television, of missing-person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls compared to the relative lack of attention…

The Burden of Poverty The burden of poverty on poor children is “intimately entwined” with shame. “Please, sir, may I have some more,” were the famous words uttered by the protagonist Oliver in the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Being an orphan, Oliver did not want gold, a…

(T.W. this article contains words such as Rape, Sexual Violence, Trauma) The definition of Blurred Lines is: (A commonly used expression to reference a situation where things are ambiguous or unclear.) There are, however, certain instances in life where there is no ambiguity. Examples: You either are or are not…