Discomfort, non-violence and race. In our efforts to make spaces in which people feel safer and more comfortable we need to constantly ask ourselves to what degree do we succeed in challenging and transforming hierarchical social relations, and to what degree do we fail at this? What are the racialised norms that underpin our understandings of comfort? March 28, 2014.

Personal blog of Karen Shiels. So why call the blog. And why now you may ask? What Karen Did Next. Well, maybe not every mo.

A woman who wants equality in the world. The Bully has been challenged. We need more people to think outside the box and we need to start listening to those who do, and instead of a world feeding on a drug of commodities we can cre.

A communal black and white photographic darkroom in New Cross Gate, London. The trick is to know what our ideas are to begin with. Sometimes I find I have no inspiration, no fresh thoughts, just a blank greyness flooding the mind.