Category: pandemic

• Masks: Why now?

    Today marked the mandatory rule for face coverings to be worn in all retailers or the possibility of a £100 fine in the UK. Yet, why now, we must question, at the height of the pandemic we were free to shop without the insistence of masks? At the start of lock down, we were…

  Alison Little

  July 24, 2020

  Art, Corona Virus, Covid, Disorder, Face coverings, Masks, pandemic, Uncategorized

• I May Destroy You

  I May Destroy You A staggering 6 weeks ago, when lock down restrictions were beginning to ease, our TV screens and minds were illuminated by: ‘I May Destroy you’. I, myself, who fared badly from the pandemic, was starting to recover from a long tail case of Covid-19. This drama series was the primary broadcast…

  Alison Little

  July 17, 2020

  Abortion, Adverse Lifestyle, Bi Sexual, Britishness, Casual Sex, Conflict, Consent, Covid-19, Female Icons, Feminism, Fertility, Fetish, fiction, Gender Roles, High School, Morality, Narcotics, Non-consensual sex, pandemic, Period, Rape and Sexual Violence, Rape culture, Relationships, Reynhard Sinaga, Same Sex Relationships, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Warped

• The Man Who

  Dave, my partner died from covid-19 during the pandemics deadliest week in Britain. This poem was written for him and read at his funeral. Due to the circumstances only 10 could attend the service and we were seated 2 metres apart. Now, as we progress towards some kind of pre-coronavirus normality, only without Dave and…

  Alison Little

  June 19, 2020

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