All posts by Brendon O'Brien
5 Things I Wish I Could Insure Myself From
In the United States, some insurance companies allow their clients to take out policies against alien abduction. Yep, real talk. I was surprised that people would want to do something …
5 Things I’ve Learned About Myself
How many of us spend more time observing other people than analysing ourselves? I have always paid more attention to the motives and circumstances of the people around me. …
What’s the Big Deal About Having a Degree?
When I told my mother that I wanted to take a year off, after secondary school, before going to university, she tried to be okay with it. When I …
Soft Men, Strong Men, and Daddy Issues
Daddy issues don’t discriminate. And there are too many men out there who, just like women, have issues with their fathers, but never address them. I think it’s about …
Asking for help: It doesn’t have to be hard
Somewhere in the long history of civilization, someone lied and told us that we can do it all ourselves – that we don’t need to ask for help. Or, …
The Politics of Love: Shrewd and Practical
For those who think of love as a mechanical, functional thing, let me first tell you that there isn’t anything particularly wrong with you. There are some of us, unlike …
Where’s the Sexiness in the Struggle for Social Change?
Trinidad and Tobago is a society with too many agencies and not enough agency. By that, I mean that there is no action or intervention from ordinary people trying to …
Are UWI Students better off without Campus Carnival?
They say that the one thing you could get a Trini to protest for is Carnival. So either the administration of The University of the West Indies’ (UWI) St. Augustine …
Keeping it in My Pants: Making Sex Unimportant
In the hormone-ravaged, sexually charged terrain of 21st-century relationships, it’s hard for a 20-something-year old young, Black, Trini male to survive. Well, not really. It’s actually the place to be …
