By Chloe McLaren
2011: Thin, wispy and cold. Used by many, appreciated by none. Continue reading
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First World Problems
I can’t afford a cleaner or a gardener but I’m too busy to do cleaning or gardening.
My career is based on a fictional social construct and has provided me a set of non-transferable ‘skills’ which would render me completely pointless in the event of an apocalyptic return to the old days.
Glastonbaby
I went to Glastonbury this year, as a puppeteer. I’ve been before, on and off since 1997, when I was a skinny middle class white girl and didn’t notice that everyone else there was a skinny middle class white girl too.
This year I felt like Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused – ‘I get older, the girls stay the same age.’
Horrorscopes 2015
Melanie May has been a beloved part of the KnockBack family since the beginning. She’s like a rarely seen aunt from Canada, or the lady who works in the launderette. Continue reading
If You Want Something Doing (properly)
By Marie Berry
Is it contentious to say that men fucked the world up? Is it sexist? What if I said it was overweight middle aged white men in suits from the west, who have systematically fucked the planet from the cosmos down? Is that sizest, sexist, racist, heterophobic? I mean, some of my friends and family are middle aged straight white men, but I think they’d mostly agree….
That’s What She Said
By Emma Derringer
She said ‘They’re looking for someone who really wants to be a PA’
