Llewella_la_femme

Llewella_la_femme

Some of my more political writing and art...


AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE (FOR SOME); some notes on privilege, whiteness and racism.

8 Jan 2021 14 minute read 5 comments (S)llew la Wulf

  It's funny, yesterday I spoke to 2 people on the phone; one a family member (Black) another à friend (white). After the standard and general greetings, and the "how are you coping? " lockdown check ins, both conversations moved on, to more meaty st...

Thank you Steve McQueen for Small Axe! On growing up Black and British; on systemic racism over the decades

30 Dec 2020 10 minute read 9 comments (S)llew la Wulf

  I've just finished watching the Education episode of Steve McQueen's Small Axe and like many of them, it's had me in tears, floods of them (please do listen to  Bob Marley's Small Axe in the above video as you read). I did OK at school really, com...

LIFE, RECOVERY AND HEALING POST RAPE, SEXUAL TRAUMA; PTSD

27 Dec 2020 19 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf

    I wrote the following poem and created the piece of word art to go with it in the aftermath of being raped, for the second time in my life, about 5.5 years ago. It was a revenge fantasy in some ways but was also very much tied up into my personal...

 🆁︎🅴︎🅵︎🅻︎🅴︎🅲︎🆃︎🅸︎🅾︎🅽︎🆂︎; 2020; 🅃🄷🄴 🄶🄸🄵🅃 🅃🄷🄰🅃 🄹🅄🅂🅃 🄺🄴🄴🄿🅂 🄶🄸🅅🄸🄽🄶....

24 Dec 2020 7 minute read 4 comments (S)llew la Wulf

    Hello, am back from, not quite the dead but  this last week or so has been painful, arduous and I've just been slightly out of it on morphine. I am now on day 8 of healing after my knee surgery and feel like I'm turning a corner, just in time, i...

WHEN THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL; ONE UPPITY NEGRESS TELLS HERSTORY

11 Dec 2020 1 minute read 3 comments (S)llew la Wulf

  Reflecting on my last post, and the idea that perhaps poetry, art, creative output is more honest than the politicised nature of History text books and references, I think about some of my own, very political poetry. Not simply political but person...

PLATO; POLITICS; POETRY; HISTORY; RACISM.... This is how I teach poetry

11 Dec 2020 3 minute read 8 comments (S)llew la Wulf

In one of my classes the other day, as a starter, I put the above quote on the board and asked them to figure out what it meant and how far they agreed. Some interesting discussion. One young man in particular decided that it was a ridiculous idea b...

POLYAMOURY VERSUS MONOGAMY; some random thoughts and musings on cuntemporary relationships

10 Dec 2020 11 minute read 8 comments (S)llew la Wulf

  Years ago, when myself and father of my youngest were still together, I started thinking about the idea of polyamory; more specifically, our relationship was not going to plan – he seemed disengaged and uninterested in the reality of domestic life...

GRACE; a poem about grace, in the face of gracelessness; about love in the face of the antithesis...

5 Dec 2020 3 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf

TW - perhaps offensive to some. Apologies, none meant. Just my own personal brand of honesty...  Grace is the password..  I may have posted this before but I'm reminded of it again this evening... After a conversation with my children, which began w...

FUCK DONALD TRUMP; BIDEN HARRIS, SET TO M.A.G.A 🇺🇸☮️👍🏽✌🏾

7 Nov 2020 3 minute read 11 comments (S)llew la Wulf

Been watching every blow by blow these last few days...on tender hooks... My kids been too... so we celebrated by dancing to a very apt song, featuring the late and great Nipsey Hussle. So many facts, figures, fuckery and statistics; 20% of Black men...

ELECTIONS, COVID, THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF THE WORD PANDEMIC AND TRYING TO STAY SANE AMIDST THE FURORE...

4 Nov 2020 3 minute read 3 comments (S)llew la Wulf

  I feel like I'm in some kind of limbo, freeze frame, parallel universe currently... I feel blessed that I have my university work to focus on (writing an essay on a critical evaluation of teaching and learning practices, and also the practical sid...