If there’s one thing I have learnt, it’s that it is far easier to decline help than to ask for it. Show up with food. Collect photographs...

We tumble back towards another war, there are some things that we, people who oppose military intervention...

Yes donating cash, time and resources may help the immediacy, but how can we prevent this being a repeating story? There are three...

People have no qualms about talking about your body here. Men walk past me in the street and tell me I am fat. Women prod my stomach...

In a week filled with hate and horror, fear and anger and finger pointing, it is essential that each of us, and I’m talking specifically...

If you can recognise and admit that and how the systems which benefit few are very much part of the problem, you can go about becoming a par

I feel like I am stealing from another woman in need. And why is that? Because I know there is just not enough for all...

“Did you get any nice presents?” I asked. “My cousin made me a bracelet” she said, pointing to jumble of loom bands proudly adorning her...

For the next time around. Welcome Autumn. I am ready for you now.

The looting in the Ferguson suits the media and the police just fine. It changes the narrative from the devastated community to the wild..

Don’t go on a demonstration against conflict and then come and bitch to me about how much you hate that bloke at work.

Happiness is not something to pursue, it’s something to be, to listen to and to act upon.

It was a beautiful morning, the day you weren’t born.

She got into a fight this morning She does most mornings. Her belly says it’s hungry and she tries to devise a new way to stifle the noise

They’re just words, right? No one really means any harm. They’re just words. Only words can be powerful and they create strong images.

Transcript of my TEDTalk: I’m here to talk to you about the essential role each of us can play in achieving world peace.

There is no silence like the noise of missing someone you never met...

I’ve just had a miscarriage. It’s a real conversation stopper, I’ve found.

Two years ago today there was an earthquake in Japan which was so powerful is shifted the world on its' axis. And my mum died in my arms.

When people feel uncomfortable they quite often slip into self-defence mode.