Opinion
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Kathy’s Window: Modesty and consent – who do women’s bodies belong to anyway?
BlogsI learned that modesty often causes shame for women, and that consent is the basis of mutual respect and love.
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Kathy’s Window: One of my deepest regrets in life
BlogsMy greatest regret is using punishments and shouting to discipline my children when they were younger.
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Kathy’s Window: Why the Body Mass Index (BMI) is bull and racist
Local newsThe BMI is not a viable measurement of health and discriminates against people of colour, women and fat people.
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Kathy’s Window: Are you being fatphobic?
Local newsWe take a look at words we may say that are fatphobic and which could harm those with bigger bodies.
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I was fatphobic, and now, I’m fat
BlogsCaxton Durban's sub Editor, Kathy shares about her body changes through the years, and how she's realised that internalised fatphobia…
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33 hours later – how I managed without my ‘crutch’
BlogsI almost killed myself trying to delete a message sent to a large WhatsApp group by mistake.
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#NotMyAriel: From ‘Unda da sea’ to under siege
Local newsAre critics racist? Or is the remake of the award-winning 1989 animated movie, The Little Mermaid, all about lazy ‘woke’…
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Women’s Month: What are we celebrating?
BlogsCaxton Local Media’s KZN campaign coordinator, Mariclair Smit, shares her thoughts on the annual Women’s Month celebrations.
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OPINION: Recycling is hard, but we gotta start somewhere
BlogsRecycling is a lot like exercise. It sucks in the beginning, but if we do not start, we won’t get…
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OPINION: Hatred towards Heard hurts both male and female abuse victims
BlogsDiscourse on social media around the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial has everyone talking.
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A year at the Berea Mail – these are my top five articles of 2021
BlogsAfter a year of writing, choosing five favorites is no easy task.
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OPINION: It’s chaos as municipalities elect leadership
BlogsFrom fist fights to power outages, I cannot believe what happened at the municipal inaugural meetings yesterday.
