Dear Aqa, As a professional author and mother of a young girl, I would like to share a few poems that I have been asked to read in schools to GCSE age students, mainly by concerned teachers or school nurses who have few other ways to speak of safe female sexual pleasure to students butContinue reading “Dear AQA”
POEM: This is a poem I wrote about things I, my white family, white friends and other white people have said around me and still constantly argue against. I guess it is a plea for white people to stop answering conversations about racism with ‘surely not’ – as in, surely not here / surely notContinue reading “white children”
I tour all over the UK and I go to so many brilliant train station (and a few other) cafes that I thought I’d start a little list for anyone who, like me, would rather give their well-earned cash to a small business rather a millionaire coffee chain when they’re travelling. So these are myContinue reading “Touring without Starbucks”
when i was a teenage girl the newspapers printed stories about the monsters they called paedophiles when i was a teenage girl a special assembly was called which told us all to watch out for a man flashing his penis in the park near the school we all thought it was funny looked out forContinue reading “when i was a teenage girl”
Quick sketch of thoughts on the advertising industry after reading another article blaming mothers’ at work for children’s issues… YOU WIN take her! go on just take her! i can’t do this any more! you are too rich you are too big i am too tired i am too small put up your billboards! sellContinue reading “New sketch: YOU WIN”
Just been sketching memories on the train…here’s one *** In my head, I shot the woman. It was the same journey we always did. Great Gran’s house to Glasgow Queen Street train station. Queen’s Street station to Edinburgh Waverley. Edinburgh Waverley to London King’s Cross. London King’s Cross to London Paddington.Continue reading “In my head, I shot the woman”
Just wrote this after walking by the graveyard I walk past each day. Not sure a title yet: when I die please fling my ashes somewhere nice and warm i pass the graveyard everyday the headstones look so cold don’t bother with a patch of ground for flowers plucked to wilt upon asContinue reading “New Poem on Mourning”
Breastfeeding for Geeks I get sent a LOT of articles and books and notes and emails and personal stories about breastfeeding. I have never studied infant health. I have never worked in maternity services. I studied economics. And from this point of view, in my humble and mathematic-loving opinion, I wish policy-makers would get overContinue reading “Breastfeeding for Geeks”
I wish infant feeding wasn’t seen as such a personal choice, otherwise I think support for it would be on every international agenda that included environmental and health issues. Whenever people ask me about breastfeeding and the importance of it, the main thing I always want to say is that it is not a personalContinue reading “Infant Feeding Report”
“In the sex scenes on our screens he will come and she will come. Ten kisses. Twenty thrusts. It’s enough”. Thanks to @durexuk #winwinorgasm #Ad for the partnership to make these short videos. Hope you enjoy xxx. Screen Sex Intimate Talking Winter Mornings
Hollie McNish