Taboo Topics : Brett Fish

Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear – meet Mhlengi Mpungose

"I did not benefit from apartheid, therefore why should I be held liable" # this is just one heck of a common statement that I hear from a lot of my white friends and I find it unwarranted because it lacks intellectual credibility, empathy, responsiveness and a sense of self awareness - "white privilege" is the damn elephant in the room -# as a black man I'm always an immediate suspect, thanks to this stereotype caricature that [...]

By brettfish|2014-04-13T22:02:19+02:00April 13th, 2014|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – What makes me me – Meet Deborah Dowlath

The country where I was born. The ethnic composition of my parents. My gender. What do these things have in common? None of them are sufficient to describe who I am. As human beings, made in God’s image and likeness, we consist of body, soul and spirit. Being a Trinidadian born female whose parents have Indian, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish and Caucasian ancestors are all factors which impact my body, but not my soul and spirit, [...]

By brettfish|2014-04-12T12:23:15+02:00April 12th, 2014|change the world, inspire-ations, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear: Meet Tsholofelo Mpuru [part ii]

my friend Tsholo had a bit of a p.s. to her first share on racism and i felt like it warranted a post of its own so it didn't get lost - this is a 47 minute video but i encourage you to make some time and watch it because it is so powerful. i am a little scared that the choir will get it and everyone else will make excuses so try and watch [...]

By brettfish|2014-04-11T20:12:12+02:00April 11th, 2014|shtupidt people, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race

i wasn't originally thinking of this as a Taboo Topic topic. but then when i started looking on the book of faces for people to write for me and had friends using terms like 'can of worms' and 'Pandora's Box' to describe what i was suggesting, it made me wonder if that is not exactly where it needs to go. is no one speaking about this? having lived in Americaland for the last three years [in diverse and mixed [...]

By brettfish|2014-04-11T07:30:02+02:00April 11th, 2014|Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|49 Comments

Taboo Topics: Dealing with the grief of losing someone you love – Meet Tarryn Patel

Nothing can prepare you for that moment when your perfect world is shattered into 1000’s of little pieces. When you receive that phone call to say that a part of your heart ‘”didn’t make it”… My sister, first team swimmer had drowned in a freak accident, walking around our pool, having a seizure, falling in and waking up in the arms of Jesus. Lauren and I were more than just sisters, we were the [...]

By brettfish|2014-03-28T17:19:00+02:00March 28th, 2014|family, God stuff, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|4 Comments

Taboo Topics: Dealing with the grief of losing someone you love – Intro

Grief is such a huge and too often taboo topic, possibly because different people grieve in different ways and so it is often hard to know what to say or do when someone has lost someone they love. We have already looked at some powerful stories from people who have lost a baby and those who have lost a child, but what about someone who has lost a person who has been in their life [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-02T17:10:38+02:00March 28th, 2014|family, friends and enemas, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|14 Comments

Taboo Topics: Abortion – meet Irma Oosthuizen

When I started thinking about having children and even long before.. I would never have guessed that the word abortion would ever be part of my vocabulary. I am definitely pro-life, and have been an active advocate against abortions, even doing speeches and presentations on the matter. I always thought that it was a black and white issue, and I am sure that for most people it still might be… I kind of wish that [...]

By brettfish|2014-03-26T10:39:32+02:00March 26th, 2014|God stuff, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|36 Comments

Taboo Topics: Losing a child – meet Sarah and Alexandra

The death of a baby or child is forever life changing in every way that you can imagine, or maybe you can not imagine. I must have heard this a million times, “I can not image how you handle this; I would not be able to handle it.” Who wants to imagine the death of their baby or child, No one I know and neither did I. But I found myself in that very real [...]

By brettfish|2014-03-18T07:11:51+02:00March 18th, 2014|pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|1 Comment

Taboo Topics: Losing a child [intro]

The very first topic i started 'Taboo Topics' with was that of losing a baby with the idea that there are a lot of people who go through that horrific ordeal, but yet not many people who speak about it and so a lot of people must be struggling and suffering through in silence. Thanks to some very brave friends of mine we now have a number of really powerful stories there which have been a [...]

By brettfish|2014-02-19T13:38:49+02:00February 19th, 2014|Taboo Topics|3 Comments

Taboo Topics: Losing a child – meet Jess Kelly and Henry

This is a repost that Jess graciously allowed me to share - you can find the original over here and you can, and really should, consider following her blog, 'Jess in Process' - in this piece she talks about losing her four year old son, Henry, 14 months ago, to a brain tumour. FULL DISCLOSURE ***WARNING: GRAPHIC/DISTURBING CONTENT*** How have you been, Jess? I hear this from time to time. It’s been 14 months since my 4-year-old [...]

By brettfish|2014-02-19T12:52:22+02:00February 19th, 2014|God stuff, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|1 Comment