Ranging from emotive personal essays to rich creative non-fiction, this section seeks to tell colourful first person perspective stories.
Relearning to speak to my elders in lockdown
Opera helped me process my father’s death during the pandemic
Why endometriosis feels like a battle with your own body
A second Nowruz in lockdown is distancing me from my Persian culture
The NHS is stretched so thin, it nearly let my healthy father die
How fanfiction helped me grieve the loss of my grandfather
I barely recognise myself: how lockdown stopped my performance for the patriarchy
My beautiful dark twisted phone-tasy: 10 long years of phone addiction
Atypical anorexia nervosa: how I learned that Black girls can have eating disorders too
I miss airports more than anything else in the pandemic
Stigma that self harm is just ‘attention seeking’ nearly stopped me from seeking help
