TABOO TOPICS
Taboo Topics is a series dedicated to sharing stories from real live people [mostly who i know] on real life issues, situations or experiences that are seldom spoken about for various reasons. So far the topics that have been addressed [with links to all the stories] are the following:
Dealing with the Grief of losing Someone you Love
Living with Disabilities/Special Needs
Marriage [when it’s not been easy]
Parents of Young Children [where it hasn’t all been easy and fun and struggle free]
I hope these will be of encouragement to you and to friends and family who you know who have been through similar things – please feel free to share the stories or send links to people who you think might appreciate them.
love brett “fish” [brettfish@hotmail.com]
Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear – meet Siki Dlanga
Every important thing has been said particularly by Tsholofelo Mpuru! You nailed it girl. I don’t even know why I am writing but Brett asked and I said yes. This is my pet hate. A [...]
Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear: Meet Hulisani Khorombi
Where on earth do I even start with this topic? “What I want my white friends to know” seems like such a direct attack to some of my closest friends and those who I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]