On the 7th September 2018, Mac Miller (real name Malcolm James McCormick) was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in his LA apartment at the tender age of 26. A respected and talented rapper,...
It was when I found myself mixing sugar-free cocoa powder with fat-free toffee yoghurt that I realised there was a problem. What I wanted was chocolate. Melty, sweet, delicious chocolate. And what I...
In the last few years, there’s been a slow, yet strong and steady positive shift in how the topic of mental health is approached. People no longer feel the need to hide their experiences about...
People make a lot of assumptions when they see a fat person. It’s somebody lazy and greedy, surely. Somebody with no self-respect. When that fat person is also disabled, the assumptions triple, at...
“Let me guess – you’re Spanish right? Or Greek? You’ve got that kind of Mediterranean look about you.” That’s pretty much the most common guess when people ask me where I’m from, and...
We live in a tough world, where everyone fights different battles to survive, to move on. A lot of us, however, engage in an especially terrifying battle – one tough enough that functioning...
The Girl Scouts have come under scrutiny once more, but this is hardly the first time the organization has endured brutal nitpicking and evisceration at the hands of critics. Founded on March 12,...
Romantic comedies and young adult series aren’t really my bag. My romances usually come with zombies and I’m not that involved in YA/NA at all. But sometimes you just have to put down your...
A few months ago, KFC changed its logistics provider that organised its deliveries of chicken. It went horribly wrong and, for week after week after week, the store had no chicken to sell its...
When you visit the Museum of Death in Hollywood, California, the first graphic thing you will see is a photo—undated, but very 1970s-looking--of a motorcycle rider who has been in an unfortunate...
