There is a new Sun Maid in the vineyard. Her breasts have grown, her waist trimmed and her foundation is flawless. She was pretty before, so why did they have to make her sexy to sell us raisins?
Dear Madame X, I have recently started to date a man who has just told me he is HIV positive. What should I do? Over the last four months I have fallen in love with him. I feel betrayed that he didn’t tell be at the beginning of the relationship so I could leave before ...
Russian authorities are refusing to let Svetlana Izambayeva adopt her 10 year old brother, preferring the boy remain in an orphanage to living with his sister. Why? Svatlana is HIV positive.
Worried that the disease will not kill them fast enough, a law is making it’s way through Uganda’s parliament that proposes executing gay people who are HIV positive. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 also provides life imprisonment for those who participate in gay sex. Someone clearly misread the World AIDS day information pack. The “aggravated homosexuality” ...
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. ~ Coco Chanel
Happy Easter!
“Hell is other people,” as the philosopher said. And nowhere is this more true than in the office. Most...
