Wishful adventurer, bad climber, & writer of unedited poetry. A blog candidly exploring mental health, veganism, & the tiny things that make life worth living.
Me, and my aggressive septum piercing
extreme almond milk
and radical mascara
(that didn’t blind any Beagles?!)
gently, oh so carefully
ask you,
Leah Mallet, 18 year old beauty therapist from Leeds,
Why did a sticker
horrify you so much?
And actual slaughter
not bother you at all?
A weekend of cuteness, happiness, and shoving misogynistic boys at gigs.
A movement that’s laughed at,
All while we like act that
Throats aren’t slit.
You are unfit
To call yourself an environmentalist,
When really, you’re fundamentalists
In this cult that calls murder
‘lunch’.
Living in a society where satirical art, like Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, is a key way to get people engaged with problematic societal issues, this movie could be a modern stroke of vegan genius. Its self-awareness -: “who want to watch a whole movie about veganism?” mocks its own existence whilst also pointing out the need for an alternative vegan message that can live alongside documentaries like Earthlings and Forks over Knives.
Last year, when the cast list was released for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, there were some grumblings, some raised eyebrows, that yet again J.K. Rowling’s magical world was looking a little too white. After Rachel Rostads challenge of Rowling’s Cho Chang as part of her critique of the representation of Asian women […]
I did love the movie, it’s left many coming out of the theatre feeling powerful, bubbling with joyful exclamations of all the things we felt the film represented and attacked, overtly and subtly. There have been many praising the movie’s glaring take on where our values are taking us as a society, and of the […]
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