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No, dressing like that isn’t the reason you got raped!

3rd July 2017 By Jonelle 6 Comments

No, dressing like that isn't the reason you got raped! Tyranny of Pink

Today, I find myself annoyed. REALLY annoyed at the amount of body shaming and blame placing that is going on. I fail to understand how WOMEN are pointing fingers at other women and saying that dressing in skimpy clothing is showing that you are “available” and it’s your fault for not dressing more conservatively. NO. …

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Filed Under: Social Issues, Blog Tagged With: brave women, empowered women, rape, South African Crisis, women get raped by men who rape, You are NOT to blame

Struggling to talk about every day life when…

12th June 2017 By Jonelle 6 Comments

Struggling to talk about every day life when...

The last while I’ve been trying to think of something to blog about. I’ve looked at my trusty content plan a million times and wondered if that was the right thing or if this is the right thing or maybe you’d like to hear about this or maybe that. I’ve thought about things I need…

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Filed Under: Social Issues, Blog Tagged With: Cape Storm, donate to Knysna, how to make a difference, Knysna Fire, What you can do

We should all be outraged – It’s not okay that our kids are dying!

23rd May 2017 By Jonelle 6 Comments

We should all be outraged - it's not okay that our kids dying! | Tyranny of Pink

This morning I woke up to the devastating news that an Ariana Grande concert had been bombed and 22 people are dead! TWENTY TWO people. Some of those, children. The lives of those twenty-two people’s family members will be changed for the worse for ever. They will now, live their lives consumed with guilt and…

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Filed Under: Being Mom, Blog, Social Issues Tagged With: #MenareTrash, Ariana Grande, children are being murdered, Courtney Pieters, Manchester, Manchester bombing, rape in the Western Cape, Western Cape murders

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Learning to back myself. Allow myself to be more. Learning to back myself. 
Allow myself to be more. 
More out there. 
More out of my comfort zone. 
More authentic. 
More me. 

This coat is fucking fabulous. 
I was terrified to buy it... it's too much. Over the top. Not me. 

Well. This is me. 
This is my coat. 

Guess it's me now. 

#embraceyourself #authenticself #beyourself #backyourself #zarastyle #leopardprint #zara
It was a cold November day and she had dressed her It was a cold November day and she had dressed herself up in layers of cardigans and covered the whole lot with her old tweed coat, the one she might have used for feeding the chickens in.

#barbarapym #janeandprudence #qotd #quotesaboutchickens #chooks #chooksofinstagram #aliceandclementine #chickens #backyardchooks #backyardchickens
The perfect Sunday. All day on the couch. Prosec The perfect Sunday. 
All day on the couch. 
Prosecco. 
Burgers. 

Dreading Monday.
I need a holiday.... 

#summerday #wellingtonnz #prosecco #oceanview
And in the naked light, I saw Ten thousand people, And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

#hellodarknessmyoldfriend #soundofsilence #disturbed #home #redandgreen #homestyling #sanseveria
Date night. Date night.
Bit my pretty red heart in two. I was ten when th Bit my pretty red heart in two.

I was ten when they buried you.   

At twenty I tried to die

And get back, back, back to you.

I thought even the bones would do.

#sylviaplath #darkpoetry #poems
It's the kind of tired that sleep can't fix. #bat It's the kind of tired that sleep can't fix. 
#bathtime #metime #whiskygram
Tiny house living. When your kitchen counter doubl Tiny house living. When your kitchen counter doubles as your office space. 

#wfh #wfhlife #workfromhome #homestyling #tinyspaces #smallhouse

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