What do you see?

I listened to BBC Radio 4s podcast ‘Queenie’ last weekend. Queenie is the debut novel by Candice Carty-Williams, a darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world. Click here to listen I came across...

The Fertility Forum

Thanks to an invitation from Kate Brian I was on the panel at the Fertility Forum at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London yesterday. The event was attended by professionals and the general public with topics that covered a range of fertility...

International Women’s Day 2019

It was such a pleasure to be invited to talk at a local event celebrating International Women’d day yesterday. It was extra special for me because IWD in 2016 was the first time that I publicly spoke about being childless. The day was filled with so many...

I have something to tell you…

A friend of mine recently told me that she is pregnant. The wonderful thing about this was that she took the time to consider my feelings about her news. She has read my book and is sensitive to what I have been through (especially as she has friends in the same...

This black woman just wants to be heard

There have been times when I have wondered if I am in the right place or am I doing the right thing here??? It’s one thing to sit behind a screen and write about my experiences or even be interviewed on someones platform but it’s quite another to know if...