2020. That's the word. We can all agree that 2020 has been a year like no other! The running theme has been Covid and lockdowns on a global scale. On a personal scale it differs for each individual. I'll share some of my thoughts on this year and what it meant to me. Highlights of 2020 The biggest highlight for me has been growing in confidence and demolishing my comfort zone. After completing my masters I said I want to be doing instagram Lives more. I've mentioned it before (I think) but I...
It's the evening and I see Lizzo is trending on twitter and also Clubhouse. Admittedly I do not follow her and so I do not know much about her. I click to see what the furore is all about and I see it is to do with her doing a 10 day detox. Hmmm. I'll give my 'surface level' response. What is the big deal? But truly to do this topic justice let us go into more detail. The body positivity movement There is a really good article on BBC bitesize that discusses the history of the body positivity...
Social media dating. For whatever reason those who are against it are really against it. Granted not everyone is up for it which is fine but I have found that sometimes people can be ill informed about it. Online dating is only one part of social media dating. Meeting someone who slid into your DMs either through Twitter, Instagram or even Facebook is all a part of social media dating. Simply put you met someone through the medium of social media who you otherwise would not have met. The jury...
I came across a post on social media that piqued my interest and got me thinking about apologies. The post is below so you have an idea of what I am talking about. I highlighted the ones that really resonated with me.
Before I delve into it let us look at the definition of Tokenism. According to Google, as provided by Ocrod Languages, tokenism is defined as: the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from under-represented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce. Let us go even further by defining what perfunctory means-- (of an action) carried out without real...
Opeyemi : I should give thanks/ be thankful [to God]. Hmm. Where do I begin? For the longest time I had a love hate relationship with my name Opeyemi. I didn't like it because it was unisex. I mean, how could it be unisex? And then I came to understand more about Yoruba names and so I began to appreciate the benefits of a unisex name. Once that was over I began to despise how my name sounded- or rather how incorrectly people would pronounce it. It didn't help that I myself couldn't pronounce my...
Before we start let us first define what Ableism means. According to google it is discrimination in favour of able-bodied people. Cambridge Dictionary defines it as : unfair treatment of people because they have a disability (an illness, injury or condition that makes it difficult for them to do things that other people do). I hope that gives a general understanding of the phrase especially if you have not heard of it before. So, why am I writing about this? I came across a few things online...
The title makes it seems as if living with friends is either yay or nay when it could also be meh but hey, meh doesn't pack a punch as much as yay or nay. For me,I learnt some lessons whilst living with friends four years ago and I will share below. Space It is fair to assume that for most people you live with friends you are close to, perhaps very close to. As such you may go out together, speak a lot and the like. Now, living together you may think that will continue. It may and it may not....
Childhood. One thing we can all agree on is that we had a childhood. Whether it was rich or left much to be desired is another question entirely but childhood? We all went through it. I mean we had to go through it before we became adults. There are some things that may be common to us all (mostly) such as loving McDonalds happy meals or going through the (now defunct?) Argos catalogue imagining all the endless possibilities of toys we could have even though it more often than not would not...