So I've been meaning to write about this for a while, it's been sitting in my draft folder for 5 months and I finally decided I feel okay to start sharing my thoughts about how I deal with anxiety and to share some insights that I've personally found useful. I've also received some amazing support, advice and strategies from my parents;(who are both experienced psychotherapists) along with hearing many other peoples stories and experiences too.
I want to start with a disclaimer and say of course I am no expert as I will be mainly sharing a few tips on what I've found have been helpful to me.
Although there are some similarities about how anxiety manifests, as it shows up in many ways and each of us will have preferred ways of managing it too.
Growing up I didn't want to talk about these things and would hide them from others, yet over time I realised it's something that a lot of us share and through my conversations with my friends I've realised how common it is, yet also realised how sad that there is limited and straight forward education about it. So over the last few years I've found the more we talk about these issues, the more we may help each other or allow each other to all feel less alone whilst dealing with these things.
I'm hoping sharing some of this with you may either create more open dialogue about it, where we can all talk and support one another (my messages are always open for any of you) or perhaps the tips may offer something that you could try that may help, like they helped me.
Anxiety is an experience with many symptons and the word anxiety is just one limited way we use to describe something which happens to us on lots of levels. So using one word to try and describe an abundance of thoughts, feelings, sensations and behaviours is inevitably going to leave us confused.
Breaking all this down into bite size chunks was the first real step for me in understanding.
The following is in no particular order, as where anxiety usually starts is deeply personal for each one of us. But for me, firstly changing the way I thought about anxiety was most useful.
This is obviously something we all do, whether we think in terms of stories or images. The gift of creative thinking and imagining is incredibly useful, however this creative thinking can be a curse when we imagine the worst.
Once we are creating worse case scenarios, images and stories in our mind, we are actively telling our body and brain that there is actually something bad that is, or might be going to happen. And if we do this often enough the brain and body believes that the stories and imaginings are real and then the body starts to respond as if it were actually real. Yes, the brain doesn't always know the difference between fact and fiction.
Of course factual scenarios can be appropriately scary, however adding more story telling can often intensify the feelings I am having.
Previously I used to call my experience of anxiety an 'anxiety attack'. Yet I no longer call them that or associate anxiety with an 'attack' as I would tend to create more worry or fearful thinking, which would only escalate the feelings I was having. So when I feel the physical symptoms of anxiety I no longer think about an 'attack' or 'panic'. My body may be reacting in a powerful way but my fearful thinking was only telling my body and brain that I was under threat.
Along with scary thoughts there would be a good mix of scary feelings too, such as feeling nervous/scared/fearful. So next up was not just understanding what I was feeling but what were all these weird sensations that were going on in my body.
When we are in an anxious state our bodies are generally moving into a 'fight or flight' response. We know this because our heart rate goes up, we get hot or cold, we may shake, want to be sick, feel faint, breathe very fast etc. Again this is because our brain/body has either perceived actual (factual) threat or perceived (imagined/fictional) threat and adrenaline kicks in. This adrenaline is the chemical in our bodies that gets the heart moving faster and it activates blood flow toward the muscles. The reason for this is that if we are under threat (fact or fiction) we need to get out of the situation, hence 'fight or flight' we either need our body to fight the situation or run away from (flight) the situation. This is why the adrenaline is released.
(There is also a freeze response that can also happen under extreme stress/trauma, but I may explore that in another blog).
Now of course this fight/flight response is great if we are in a life threatening situation but if it's a result of stress for whatever reason or being late for a date, then its not so helpful. The other problem is that when a lot of adrenaline is released into the body the blood flow goes to the muscles and not to the brain. This is why we feel spaced out and cannot think straight when in this adrenalised state.
Also feeling sick is because the body wants to be lighter to run or fight so the body wants to get rid of whats in the stomach. Breathing very fast is because our bodies are preparing to move fast.
One of the worse things to do is to sit and be still in a highly adrenalised state, the best thing to do is to move around, dance, jump, run for a few mins. This will then move the adrenaline as the brain then knows that the body has done its job. If you are unable to move, imagine running and sometimes this can also help.
Here's a few more tips that I find useful for me.
1. Eating a substantial breakfast is really vital, whilst avoiding stimulants like caffeine and high sugars. Breakfasts with healthy fats and proteins with vedge based carbohydrates are ideal. Keeping our blood sugar levels balanced throughout the day prevents the body producing unnecessary adrenaline as a false fuel, as skipping meals will produce more adrenaline especially when we are running low on energy because of the lack of food and lack of essential nutrients. Quick fix sugars only exaggerate feeling more stimulated/anxious.
2. Visualising: This is dependant on the situation but closing your eyes and visualising another place or paying attention to the things around you and focussing on the 'facts' of whats happening and your external environment. I play the colour game usually, as I find my moments happen when I'm travelling, so I usually look for colours,focusing on 4 red things, 4 blue and so on. However, for some people I know that reading things can also help in these moments. On the train for example, I spend a lot of time reading the small print of the signs to help focus my mind on things around me.
3. Create your safe place senses: My mum introduced this strategy to me to create a safe place senses 'box', 'notebook' or even place on your phone with notes of a list of things that help you feel relaxed or to help us in these moments. For example, I have podcasts I love listening to on my phone and meditations, I have drawing apps to take my focus off of them, I have a book I'll take with me when going into situations that may make me feel anxious. I bought myself a mindfulness colour book that I draw in before going out if I'm feeling like I may be going into a situation that I may find anxious. Of course, it's down to finding things that work for you in these situations, but try creating a list of strategies that allow you to feel relaxed and work on them as a resource .
4. Chewing gum: Now I have to say I'm not saying to chew gum or chew something whilst you are highly adrenalised as this could cause you to choke and I'm only suggesting this as it's something that's helped me. But if I feel as though I'm going into a situation that may be stressful, I carry a pack of gum or mints on me and chew them before going into the situation. It's known that chewing reduces levels of stress hormone cortisol found in saliva and fast chewing has been shown to have more of an anxiety busting effect than slow chewing. Some people I know also say that the chewing has helped them feel less anxious as it allows them to focus on the chewing and stops teeth grinding in stressful situations.
5. Question/ visual Game, with others or alone: If you are alone and experiencing any of the symptoms of anxiety, try the question game. Work your way down from 5 and in your head or if you are able to out loud say 4 colours that you notice around you, 4 smells around you, 4 things you can see, and 4 things you hear. Then work your way down from 4, stating 3 colours, things you see, smells and things you hear. This allows your mind to focus on the physical things around you, to focus your mind and attention onto something else. If you are with someone who may be having anxiety symptoms or you are experiencing them and need support, it's okay to ask someone to help you with these questions. If you are the one supporting another, ask questions about things they've done (such as "what did you have for breakfast") encouraging them to move their attention away from the internal experience of anxiety and start to notice the external world around them.
6.PIES: Going through these points/exercises help me acknowledge where my anxiety is originating from. This can be helpful when the symptoms are moderate. P/Physical – How is my body experiencing the adrenaline? I/Intellect – Are my thoughts fact or fiction? E/Emotionally – How do I feel? S/Socially – What do I need to regulate?
7. Do what eases anxiety symptoms. It is different for everyone, but find something that allows you to feel at ease and involve these moments into your days or the upcoming days you may feel stressed about. Relaxation methods, such as yoga and meditation are good ways that allow your body to relax and to stop your adrenals from overworking.
8. Plan short term activities throughout your days, that are enjoyable or focussed in a way that brings your attention away from what might be causing you worry. For example, If you are spending more time in your thinking, do some movement and body based exercises.
9. Challenge your expectations and social media norms: For me a lot of my anxiety stems from situations I cannot control and I feel distressed when I don't think I can control an outcome. Over the last few months I have been working daily on consciously doing one thing that is out of my routine by doing things that aren't planned or in my control. Some small examples of mine are planning to see someone on the day, rather than in advance. Accepting that I don't have control of others and letting my expectations go. Not checking my phone for an hour and taking time off my phone when feeling anxious or stressed is also something that helped me massively. Our bodies are stimulated when scrolling and looking at a blue light on a screen which again overstimulates our nervous systems and stops us from resting. So I found taking time off scrolling and not being constantly plugged means we give our bodies the down time they need.
10 Be kind to yourself: Anxiety is not always just about the psychological and is very often an adrenal response that is caused by many stressors that are outside of our control and part of the pace of daily modern life. Just because I don't feel ok doesn't actually mean it's me that is actually not ok. Our bodies are good at giving us feedback and if we listen we may make life choices that enable us to live in more balanced ways that will support our bodies/ brains and nervous systems, which will naturally reduce anxiety and adrenaline symptoms.
Thanks for reading this post, I really hope in some way this was helpful and know if you ever want to chat my messages are always open. Have a lovely day!
My new favourite drink and super cute event!
Just writing a short but extremely Sweet blog post today about a little event I attended that I really wanted to share with you all! Last week I was really lucky to be invited to try the new Tequila Rose in Brighton, along with my bestie @AliHemsley !
Now at first I was honestly thinking am I going to struggle to drink it? Tequlia has always been to strong for me, but oh my goodness!!! This strawberry cream liqeur is incredible. It's pink, it taste amazing and the bottle looks absolutely beautiful! So I did really spend my Saturday in pink, drinking pink things and getting super excited about finally finding my new favourite drink. I tested this drink with all my friends this weekend, and they all loved it as much as me! So I'm super happy that it now means all pre drinks can be Tequila Rose! I guess you could say I really am in love with it.
The day consisted of getting our hair done at Lipstick and Gunpowder in Brighton and drinking the most amazing Tequila Rose Milkshake, which I really need to attempt to make! Whilst having my hair curled into the most stunning bouncy waves we had lots of yummy shots and then decided to take full advantage of the colourful background and super cute tequila rose backdrop! Ali and Myself decided to borrow the coolest pink jackets that made us feel like we were part of the pink ladies gang.. pink ladies tequila gang in fact and had such fun catching up in the sun.
The best way to describe this drink is like an alcoholic milkshake! It's so so yummy. Honestly everytime I smell it I want a sip…but it's not really expectable to have a drink on a work night in bed by yourself. It really is such a perfect drink for summer! For shots with friends, a milkshake or even tequila 'beer pong' that me and Ali decided to play for her birthday this weekend, which is 100% nicer than beer in my opinion!
You can buy Tequila Rose from Tesco's and its so so worth it, I promise once you add this into the mix on your nights out you'll thank me for it!
Let me know if you've ever tired it or if you do after this!
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Tips on dealing with the stresses of social media and learning to love yourself.
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." ~Thich Nhat Hanh.
Hope you're all happy and well! I thought I'd create a post today about how I personally deal with some of the stresses of social media and ways in which I am learning to love and accept myself. I'm only writing this because I believe as inspiring and amazing as social platforms can be, they can also be mentally draining for a lot of us who are part of this virtual world. We are all human, and I feel as though a lot of the time we do and try to constantly show all the positives and share only the positive moments. However for me personally, I do have difficult days and I am in no way complaining about how incredible social media is and how many wonderful opportunities it has opened up for me. So just to make sure this post isn't about me complaining or talking about the negatives, it's more to highlight that we are all human and social media can sometimes affect us. Below are a few different ways I cope with it all. It can be overwhelming and so hard not to compare yourself when you are constantly surrounded by everyone's highlight reels, so I am trying hard to learn how to release self-neglect.
I am a firm believer that you can create your world by working hard, putting your all into it and being positive about everything you create. I also believe it's okay to have those down days and be open about the things you go through – it doesn't mean your moaning if you need to express how your feeling! So I wanted to share some ways I personally deal with the stresses of social media and how it can sometimes make me feel.
As I am sharing so much of my life online already, and will only continue to share so much more over the next few months and years, I want to make sure I am always honest and open with you all and will share as much as I can on my thoughts and tips with how to deal and enjoy this journey.
So, here goes… Here's some of the things I've been doing lately to allow myself to have down time from social platforms and learn new ways of self-love and accepting myself.
Starting the day with love, not technology. Reminding yourself of your worthiness in the morning. Don't go on your phone as soon as you wake up. Give yourself an hour for your body to wake up slowly before flicking through social platforms – it's not going anywhere, you won't be missing out, promise! It honestly helps so much with feeling relaxed. As going on your phone as soon as you wake up can be such a shock to the system as its such an over stimulant.
Give yourself breaks from constantly checking your phone. Find something that allows you to switch off. For me personally, it's going to the gym. I don't have any wifi there (thank goodness – a little blessing) so it means I can just listen to music and switch off from it all for a bit. MY suggestion would to be to consciously turn airplane mode on and do something for yourself, for part of your day. This could be anything – cooking, planning what you are going to do the next day, going for a walk or spending time with loved ones.
Follow accounts that inspire you, not ones that you find yourself comparing too. As I see it, you may just need a bit of space from following that person sometimes. I am in noway criticising them, but it's simple, everyone shows their positives, their proudest moments or shares all the things they love. However, it can be extremely unhealthy and also damaging for us to spend some of our time comparing ourselves to someone elses best moments. I know I've been guilty of this, I have moments where I don't feel like this and moments where I do. Just look out for yourself, as we can sometimes do it without even realising. There is a big difference to admiring/ being inspired by someone and feeling envious and constantly finding yourself picking at your own features or lifestyle because of having an insight to someone elses. We are all unique and everyone is on their own journey, so enjoy yours.
Time off before you got to sleep. Try give yourself an hour or two before bed to not go on your phone. Recently, I've been writing in a note pad and filling it with ideas I have that I want to start creating after university, I think it's important to allow yourself to relax before sleeping! Listening to music or reading is something that also helps me sleep better at the moment.
Talk about how your feeling, if you feel affected in any way. It's okay to talk about it all, social media has so many positives but also can have so many uncertainties and worries that occur due to it, and it's okay to take time out to focus on what is right for you and be in the moment. Surround yourself with people who make you happy and be in those moments with them, not always living it through your phone.
I also want to briefly touch on numbers, followers and engagement. As I know a lot of us can be affected by this. I have always tried to never ever focus on any of those things as it's something you don't have full control over, but I understand it is something that does feel like recognition/ a sense of achievement to things we create through social media sometimes, but we shouldn't let it. Our platforms are a place where we are able to be creative, and share our love, whatever it might be with others. It's a very inspiring place however, we need to remember why we started sharing these in the first place. When I first started blogging, I ended up stopping for 7 months because I began to feel constantly down about what I was doing and that it wasn't 'good enough', so I stopped. I took time out to have my space and think about why I wanted to pursue this in the first place, and for me that time was so helpful as it brought me back to all the reasons I wanted to do this. So do what is right for you. Allow yourself to step back if you need that time, you need to feel happy and positive towards what you create.
Talk happy to yourself. If you can, try and think of 3 or more things daily that you feel you've accomplished and things you love about yourself. Although I found this difficult to start with, I believe it really helps you focus on a positive mindset towards your body and your mind.
Be patient with yourself and appreciate/ think about the things your grateful for when you can. We can only do so much and it's good to listen to your body, to allow yourself to relax and focus on doing the things you love. When it works for you, it's good to have time to reflect on some of the things you've accomplished and what your grateful for.
Talk to someone, or seek professional help. Dealing with self-rejection and stress can be extremely difficult, and we all deserve to be happy. From personal experience, I think it's important to try tune in and work out what you may need, and if seeing someone may help with that support in your life then it's something that's worth exploring. There are lots of different approaches you can make to this, so it's always good to try different things and if they don't work move on and try something else. I've tired a few different things regarding therapy to help with the ways I deal with stress, and am still learning and trying new things, such as yoga and meditation. Talking to people can also help, such as friends or family. If you are reading this and want to chat, I will always be more than happy to talk to any of you as a friend (I'm no professional) but sometimes it can help just to let it out in the open.
I want to thank you all for reading this and sticking around to be part of this journey with me! I will always be honest and true with you all. I am forever grateful for all of your support and love.
I thought I'd do a little post about the sweetest January treats I received for my nails and hands this January. I've always wanted to have healthy and long nails and throughout winter my hands get so so dry and I also have the worst habit of biting my nails when I get stressed or anxious! So when I received this box from Mania and Lola I was so excited and amaze by some of the products, I felt like I had to share them with you all.
Within my box I recieved an beautifully smelling hand repair 'Intensive Hand Mask' by Skin republic and the most perfect little on the go pot of 'Milk and Honey Body Butter'. January and February has been so cold and can be so harsh on our hands. Just yesterday when I went for a walk, my hands turned so pink and big from the cold they looked weird! So having these littles treats in your bag for those moments, is so so perfect. Keeping my hands super nourished and soft!
I also received these beautiful three shades, they are absolutely gorgeous nail colours and they are such long lasting luxurious polishes. I swear by all this brands! The bright purple is from Artistic Colour revolution "Shred it up", OPI 'Samoan Sand' which is my new favourite colour. The colours are so striking and I couldn't love them more! I work in retail once a week and for those of you that have done or do, you'll understand how bad your nails can get from picking up and carrying hangers all day! Mine end up chipping so badly, but I've been using these colours the last few weeks and it lasts so much longer! I also received the Nail Shaper within my monthly box, which is amazing for smoothing over my nails and keeping them in good condition. I struggle keeping my nails neat and tidy, but this is super easy to use!!!
These little treat boxes are so perfect, and cheer up my months with such sweet surprise gifts! You can check out there website HERE to subscribe for some amazing surprises each month!


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Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution*
By Chris Crass
For all of us who are men who believe in social justice, who want healthy and beautiful lives for our loved ones, and who are working for positive change in the world, let us commit or re-commit to making feminism central in our lives, values, and actions. Black feminist scholar bell hooks writes, "When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love." She continues, "Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage, and strengthen our commitment." It is time for men in the millions to take courageous action in our society to further feminist revolution.
The everyday violence and oppression of sexism in our society is epidemic and not only must end, but can end. Sexism devastates our relationships, communities, social justice efforts, and our lives. While we did not choose to be men in a patriarchal society, we have the choice to be feminists and work against sexism. Below is a list of tools and suggestions that have helped me over the years as I have struggled to understand what it means to be a man working for feminism.[1] Let us look to the leadership of women and gender oppressed people for guidance and work alongside them, let us bring more and more men into feminist efforts, let us embrace feminism as a healing and transformative force in our lives, and let us feel in our hearts that we can do this.[2]
Develop an intersectional feminist analysis of patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, heterosexism, and the state. Study feminist analysis from writers such as Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Suzanne Pharr, Angela Davis, Barbara Smith, and Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez. Learn about the historical development of patriarchy in books such as Maria Mies' Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch, and Andrea Smith's Conquest. Explore the impact of patriarchal violence on your life and what you can do to stop it in Paul Kivel's Men's Work. Read bell hooks' essays about men and feminism in Feminism is for Everybody and The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love. Learn more about gender justice in Leslie Feinberg's Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Reflect on your experience of gender using Kate Bornstein's My Gender Workbook as a guide.
Study social movements and organizing experiences led by women and gender oppressed people historically and today—from Ida B. Wells and Abby Kelley to Septima Clark and Ai-Jen Poo. Also learn about men in the movement who supported women's leadership and feminist politics—from William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois to Ricardo Flores Magon, Carl Braden, and David Gilbert. Take stock of the resources around you that can support your learning. Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, and Labor Studies programs were won through the struggle of previous generations. Some of the most visionary and powerful feminists of our time teach; seek out opportunities for study at colleges. Look into political education and training programs led by social justice organizations with feminist politics. Look for events about women's history and feminism at progressive bookstores, social justice conferences, and with community groups. Join or form a study group to read books from some of the authors already mentioned, and to learn more about feminist history.
Think about women, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people in your life who support your development as a feminist. These may be friends, people you've worked with, or family members. Reflect on what you have learned from them. Far too often patriarchy teaches men to ignore or devalue the wisdom of gender oppressed people and this both undermines their leadership in society and robs us of their leadership in our lives. Take time to thank people for what you've learned and look for opportunities to support them and strengthen your relationships.
Think about men in your life who can support your process of learning about sexism and developing as a feminist activist. This could include talking through questions and struggles you are having and/or reading one of the authors mentioned above together, as well as participating in organizing efforts that have feminist goals. While support for your development as a feminist will often come from women and genderqueer people, and it is important to show gratitude for that support, it is critical to build bonds of mutual support with other men as we work to grow individually and also to develop a culture of feminist activism amongst men.
Learn about current struggles in your community that further feminist goals and have a gender analysis. Look for opportunities to get involved and support these efforts. Your support can include donating money, volunteering to do office work, doing outreach for events, showing up with others to demonstrations and rallies, and recruiting other people in your life, particularly men, to get involved as well. It is important to support and respect the existing leadership of these struggles, rather then come in thinking you're going to take over. Look for opportunities to build relationships with the people involved in these efforts. The more you show up and make useful contributions, the more you can also build trust and respect.
Develop a feminist analysis of all the social justice work you do, and work with others to help make that analysis more central in your efforts. Reach out for help and ask questions. Notice when you feel that asking for help is a sign of weakness and try to do so anyways.
Help create political education opportunities such as reading groups and workshops for other people to come together and learn more about feminism. Help promote other groups' events on similar themes. Make a special effort to recruit men.
Go deep and go personal. Day-to-day patterns of domination, both institutional and interpersonal, are the glue that maintains systems of domination. While most of this list is focused on activist efforts, it is also important to bring our politics into our personal relationships. Far too often, activist men support feminism in their public life and retreat into male privilege at home. Going with the flow in personal relationships generally means going with the flow of domination; liberation requires consistent and conscious decisions to choose and create something different. Just like any other effort to win and create another world, set goals in your relationships to practice feminism. It will likely feel awkward, contrived, and uncomfortable at times to bring this level of attention to your personal life. When almost every aspect of society is based on and reinforces male supremacy, it should be expected that our steps towards feminist liberation will at times feel uncomfortable and awkward, and sometimes terrifying. Being clear on our goals, seeking help when we need it, and knowing that we can increase our capacity to live our values through practice, can help us also make feminist action a powerful and rewarding habit.
Become more aware of your own participation in social justice efforts. For example, count how many times you speak and keep track of how long you speak at meetings and in discussions. Count how many times other people speak and keep track of how long they speak. Be aware of how this breaks down according to gender. Create a method to help you do this for a few months, or until this awareness becomes routine.
10. Practice noticing who's in the room at meetings and events: How many cisgender men ?[3] How many cisgender women? How many transgender people? How many white people? How many people of color? Is it majority heterosexual? Are there out queers? What are people's class backgrounds? Don't assume to know people, but also work at becoming more aware. Listen to people and pick up on how they identify themselves. Talk with people one-on-one who you work with and get to know them. Learn about the various ways that people identify and express their gender and explore what it means to be transgender, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming.
Be conscious of how often you are actively listening to and supporting what other people are saying. As a white guy who talks a lot, I've found it helpful to write down my thoughts and wait to hear what others have to say. Others will frequently be thinking something similar or have better ideas. Practice listening. Support people to develop their ideas. Ask them to expand on what they think about events, ideas, actions, strategy, and vision. Think about who you ask and who you really listen to. Developing respect and solidarity across race, class, gender, sexuality and ability is complex and difficult, but absolutely critical and liberating. Those most negatively impacted by systems of oppression have played and will play leading roles in the struggle for collective liberation.
Think about whose work and what contributions to the group are recognized and celebrated and whose are not. Practice recognizing more people for their work and try to do this more often. This also includes men offering support to other men who aren't recognized and actively challenging competitive dynamics that men are socialized to act out with each other. Strive to become fluent in appreciation and gratitude. Capitalist patriarchy thrives on the idea that there is a scarcity of power and that there is only enough for some people at the top to have it. Creating a culture of appreciation and gratitude can help us remember that there is an abundance of power that we can share, and that each of us is capable of making important contributions.
Be aware of how often you ask people to do something as opposed to asking other people, "what needs to be done?" Male socialized people often assume a higher level of competency then they actually have. Additionally, it is a patriarchal norm to assume men are in charge. There are likely others who are just as qualified, or even more so, who could be in positions of coordination. There are also a lot of men who are skilled coordinators and this is an important set of skills to pass on to others. Encourage and support others to take on this important leadership role.
Be aware of ways you might think you are always needed, in every discussion, in every work group, to make sure things go right. Be aware of how this may impact other people's participation. Struggle with the saying, "you will be needed in the movement when you realize that you are not needed in the movement." Humility and encouragement of others, along with appreciation of your own unique gifts and contributions, are key ingredients for successful leadership.
Work with and struggle with the model of group leadership that says that the responsibility of leaders is to help develop more leaders, and think about what this means to you: How do you support others and what support do you need from others? This includes men providing emotional and political support to other men. Look for opportunities where people can grow as leaders and help others take note of those opportunities. When possible, have group discussions about how to best support various people to make the most of those opportunities. As Ani Difranco has said "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." Every organizing experience is a leadership development opportunity if you look at it right.
Develop a keen awareness and appreciation for work that is traditionally defined as women's work. Take on this work, and recruit other men to engage in it as well. Socially defined "women's work" can include cooking, cleaning, providing transportation, replenishing food and supplies, caring for children, tending to people who have special needs (because of illness, age, or ability), taking care of logistics, providing emotional support, mediating conflicts, and other such responsibilities that help build a healthy community. When you engage in this work, learn from the people already doing it, so that you can do it well. Give people appreciation for doing this work and, in the process, grow the understanding of how important this work is to accomplishing overall goals. When this work is shared more equally, it frees up other people's time whose leadership and participation is needed. Thinking about the needs of others and helping meet those needs is also a concrete way to move out of emotional isolation that many men experience. When recruiting others, take a moment to explain to men why you're asking more men to do this work. See if they have suggestions of men in their lives who would be good to recruit and encourage them to reach out.
Take time to emotionally support other people and deepen your understanding of the political significance of emotional work to building liberatory culture, community, and movement. People socialized as women often provide the bulk of emotional support in interpersonal relationships, organizations, communities, and movements. While transferring skills and recruiting people to take on responsibilities is important, supporting people to work through internalized oppression, internalized superiority, self-limiting beliefs, and believe in themselves is key to helping people grow as successful activists. Emotional support is also an important part of creating healing and nurturing political culture that helps us sustain our efforts and live our values more fully. In larger society, emotional vulnerability by men is often responded to with ridicule or violence. Providing emotional support and opening yourself to emotional vulnerability are steps towards creating feminist masculinities.
Learn about the impact of sexual violence on the lives of women and gender oppressed people. Sexual assault and harassment are prevalent, not only in society, but also in the movement. While we work to make larger scale changes in society, there are also important roles we can plan in stopping sexual assault and harassment in activist efforts. Learn about ways you can actively challenge rape culture and help build feminist culture. For example, in society at large and in activist settings, women are routinely sexualized and turned into objects of male desire while their leadership, skills, experience, and analysis are marginalized. Remember that women are flirted with, have their bodies commented on, and are hit on over and over again. We need to help make movement spaces, and as many other spaces as possible, safer for women to participate fully rather then spending their time deflecting unwanted advances, comments, and actions. This isn't about creating an anti-sex culture, but promoting a respectful and consensual one with women's self-determination and autonomy at the center. Men talking openly and honestly with each other and, where appropriate, in group discussions about how to help make this happen is an important step. Men supporting survivors of sexual assault and harassment is an important part of this process. Additionally, it is key that men pro-actively speak out against rape and rape culture in the company of other men and promote consent culture.
As you work to challenge male supremacy and struggle for feminist change in society, explore your relationship to cisgender men. Often as men become more conscious of gender and feminism, they work and build community with women and gender-oppressed people. This makes sense, given who is primarily talking about gender and taking action for gender justice and feminism. It also makes sense because many of us have experienced male violence, with our political commitments and identities additionally making us targets. However, it is also important for feminist men to actively build community with other men, both to heal ourselves and organize more men to challenge patriarchy and work for feminist liberation. How can men support and encourage each other in the struggle to develop radical models of anti-racist, class conscious, pro-queer, feminist manhood that challenges strict binary gender roles and categories? This is not a suggestion to end or stop building relationships with people who aren't men. Rather, we should have a wide range of relationships with people of different genders and maintain a commitment to bringing more men into movement for collective liberation.
Remember that social change is a process, and that our individual transformation and individual liberation are intimately interconnected with social transformation and social liberation. Life is profoundly complex and there are many contradictions. Mistakes are part of the process. Remember that the path we travel is guided by love, dignity and respect even when it brings us to tears and is difficult to navigate. Often when men in the movement are asked if they are feminist, their first response is to talk about how frequently they fail to live up to feminist principles. Far too often, men committed to feminism become incapacitated with shame and act from a place of critique of themselves and others, which prevents us from bringing leadership to help shape events. As we struggle, let us also love ourselves and reach out for help. Believe in your ability to make important positive impacts in the world. Make changes to this list and include additional tools that have been helpful to you. Keep your list and share it with other men you are working with. Remember that we are in this together and that everyday is an opportunity to live our values and take action to further feminist revolution.
* "Against Patriarchy" is an excerpt, revised specially for The Feminist Wire, from Chris Crass's new book Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy published by PM Press.
[1] These tools come out of conversations and reflections rooted in social justice organizing over the past 25 years. Thank you to Justin Stein, Lewis Wallace, Molly McClure, Marc Mascarenhas-Swan, Chanelle Gallant, Josh Connor, Chris Dixon, and RJ Maccani for sharing initial ideas and feedback. Thank you to Amar Shah, Rachel Luft, Dan Berger, Carla Wallace, Rahula Janowski, Charlie Frederick, Paul Kivel, and Lisa Albrecht for their feedback.
[2] Gender oppressed refers to people who don't fit into the gender binary of male and female. This includes people who are genderqueer, gender variant, gender non-conforming, intersex and who either live outside of being male or female or have both male and female genders.
[3] Queer and transgender activists developed the term cisgender as a label for individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity. Cisgender is a companion term to transgender.
Reprinted with permission from the author.
Chris Crass is a longtime organizer who writes and speaks widely about anti-racist organizing, feminism for men, lessons and strategies to build visionary movements, and leadership for liberation. His book, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy, was recently published by PM Press.
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Deep in the vines of France's natural wine underground
Today, to drink natural wine is to go on an adventure: Richard King heads to Val De Loire in the heart of France's wine country to understand what makes it special
By Richard King
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When the phrase "natural wine" started appearing on more progressive wine lists around a decade ago, several assumptions were made. One of the most prevalent was that the adjective "natural" gave the bon viveur licence to order bottle after bottle of this frequently seductive drink and that the following morning there would be little or no consequence. The more sceptical drinker found the notions of cleanliness and purity associated with "natural" discouraging; the word suggested an insipid wine devoid of character or flavour. For many of us, experience of the odd sore head has disproved the first assumption, while the esoteric funkiness and rewarding palate of natural wine has dispelled any idea that its varieties are likely to be boring. Today, to drink natural wine is to go on an adventure.
In our digital age, in which authenticity and rough-hewn traditions of handicraft are now highly valued, natural wine speaks to an idea of a much in-demand sense of integrity. As fashion has embraced the workwear styles of the pre-War agricultural labourer of baker, so it is now possible to drink the 1930s rural working man's wine. The manufacture of a bottle of natural wine is certainly a timeless, if time-consuming, process. A basic description of its contents might be wine that is often cloudier, fresher and more animated to the taste than conventional wine; a wine that the Ancient Romans might have hoped to enjoy as a result of their planting of vines in the territories they conquered whose climate supported their cultivation.
The grapes used in natural wine are, at the very least, organic and often obscure varieties, which are cultivated, tended and harvested by hand and subsequently pressed using antiquated equipment. Formal organic certification is usually cost prohibitive to the small producer, many of whom consider it merely an administrative exercise, neither trustworthy nor reliable and who display little interest in codifying or formalising their trade, which prides itself on unique characteristics.
Rue Des Belles Caves, the chai of Francois Saint-Lo, lies in the village of Berrie, Val de Loire, in the heart of France's wine country. Saint-Lo a modest, prepossessing man in his early thirties is currently producing some of the most desirable and stylish bottles under the rubric natural wine. On the limestone wall near the entrance to his chai I was shown a patch of 90-year-old blue-grey fungus that contributed to the circulation of airborne yeasts. In natural wine production the fermentation of grapes depends on such naturally occurring yeasts, which the producer often encourages at their premises. After fermentation the liquid is bottled, unfiltered, by gravity. This means the scant possibility of a microscopic piece of grape or grape-related detritus finding its way into the wine cannot be ruled out. In the event of such an occurrence it is best to consider the presence of such rogue proteins as adding character and value to the bottle. As an extreme example of the unpredictability of natural wine, one notable producer who is considered, even in this field, something of an eccentric, is known to have found a spider at the base of one of his bottles.
I was visiting Berrie with Joel Wright, an affable, bookish man of a similar age to Saint-Lo, who runs a successful business, Wright's Wines, which imports and sells natural wines from rural Carmarthenshire in West Wales. Wright carries many of the vintages that are currently among the most coveted and fashionable bottles on the market, for which there is great demand in the bars and retailers of London, Leeds, Bristol and other British cities, where the drink, currently enjoying an on-going popularity, is on the cusp of transforming itself from a niche to a commercial interest. Wright was in the Loire to make the rounds and review the 2019 harvest with some of the producers whose wines he carries, among whom are the natural wine world's most fervent practitioners and in an unregulated micro-industry populated by the ornery and uncompromising, some of its more forceful personalities.
To reach Saint-Lo's chai we had turned off the autoroute A85, which runs through the Centre-Val De Loire onto the smaller departmental roads that lead deeper into the region's endless hectares of vineyards and increase the sense of immersion in an unchanging landscape. On either side of the road the vines stretched to the horizon, uninterrupted by either hedges or trees. In mid-autumn, after the labour-intensive harvest had ended, there was little sign of activity; the scarce amount of traffic on the smaller roads consists of lorries driving to and from the small roadside factories that appear every 30 kilometres or so. Their yards were stacked with large crates, barrels and plastic sealed pallets containing wine bottles. Rather than an atmosphere of bucolic calm, even in this sleepy period of downtown in the viniculture year, the backcountry interior of the Loire was a working landscape of agri-industry.
Berrie shares the rather bleak atmosphere of the infinite, flat fields that surround it. There were empty properties for sale at eye-wateringly low prices, by British standards, and several dilapidated, half-collapsed stone barns and outbuildings at either end of the village, in which there was neither a boulangerie nor épicier, nor any other sign of economic activity. Once through the gates of Saint-Lo's house we walked downwards, through a yard littered with wine-making equipment and other detritus, towards two large hand-turned wooden doors. These opened into a cellar where we felt a notable drop in temperature among the stone walls where Siant-Lo and some friends were seated around a table eating a cold lunch of bread, cheese and cured meats. Everyone had the glazed, sleepless look of people running on coffee, wine, tobacco and broken sleep patterns. Saint-Lo pointed towards a large wooden press to our right, a solidly built barrel style object, somewhere between an enormous wooden tub and an oversized pepper mill. I later learned that this had been restored by a carpenter friend and neighbour, who I assumed was also responsible for the construction of the cellar doors.
The faint fizzing sound of red cabernet franc grapes compressing against each other was audible from within the press, a process initiated by its barely perceptible descent through the barrel. The mill's progress needed to be supervised throughout the night, its frame, through which the red-purple grapes were clearly visible, was stationed on an old trolley of the size that might have once been used by railway porters. The juice would be ready in two days, maybe a little less, Saint-Lo said. A few hours previously, the press had been filled with the grapes and the basic and rather archaic motor, which had been restored and jerry rigged to turn its large metal handle, switched on.
Looking past the press into the semi-darkness behind the improvised dining area, I had seen for the first time that we were standing in a deceptively large, high-ceilinged cave system, the floors of which contained barrel after barrel of wine. Wright, witnessing my reaction, informed me this strange, almost holy space already existed when Saint-Lo took over the building, but had been further excavated over the years by him and some friends, who had set to work with hand tools burrowing into the limestone to create this extraordinary cavern. It was the size of a large parish church and enjoyed a steady temperature, one that might discomfort a congregation but provided the perfect atmospheric conditions for producing and storing wine. The road opposite the entrance to Rue Des Belles Caves, the road of beautiful cellars, was Vine Street, Rue Des Vignes. The sense of traditions, perhaps even harmony, being restored to this quiet village was tangible.
As well as learning to make wine alongside Saint-Lo, several of the people coming and going between the caves and houses seemed adept at carpentry and ironmongery, which added to the impression that the operation at Rue Des Belles Caves was a collective endeavour. Saint-Lo and several of those present wore their hair in dreadlocks and had a certain aura of detachment and scruffiness that in Britain might see them labelled New Age Travellers.
Such an outward appearance of mild outsider resistance or rebellion is a signifier of the position of natural wine within the wider ecosystem of viniculture and a rejection of the rigid legal hierarchies of appellation contrôlée and terroir within France. The atmosphere in Saint-Lo's underground winemaking facility, one of hand production, of a labour of love, of attention to detail, of wine making using methods that were familiar to the population of France 80 or more years ago, but have been greatly superseded since, is as good a definition as any of the term "natural wine". It is a drink that, unlike the bottles produced by the wine industry, is currently without any legal classification.
By the end of the Second World War the system of AOC (Appellation Origin Controlée) was formalised throughout the wine-growing areas of France. A bottle of cotes du Rhône that bore on its label the statement "Appellation Cotes Du Rhône Controlée", was now, unequivocally, a bottle of cotes du Rhône. Natural wine producers, however, argue that what began as a system to protect the characteristics of each area developed into a bland orthodoxy regarding how a wine was supposed to taste. The result was that in order to receive its title, a sauvignon had to conform to a strict criteria of tasting notes, one increasingly best achieved by industrial fertiliser and additive-reliant viniculture. As much as a movement seeking to preserve the traditional, folky methods of wine-making used by the paysan – the French countryman of limited means – up to the middle of the last century, natural wine is a drink produced in defiance of the uniformity in taste and style demanded by following AOC manufacturing standards.
Instead, natural wine vignerons respond to what the harvest provides. If the grapes are rich and plentiful, the wine will reflect this abundance. If a late spring frost takes hold of the crop, this random act of nature will be evident in both the flavour of the wine and the smaller number of bottles in the yield.
Although made from the same grapes and the same regions covered by AOC the results are likely to be radically different from the rigorously enforced AOC definition of how a wine should look and taste. Natural wine producers not only eschew these strictures but take them as a challenge to make wine that demonstrates how orthodox and unimaginative the wine industry has grown. The first Saint-Lo wine I tasted was a cabernet franc, a grape familiar as the backbone of every bottle of merlot or cabernet sauvignon produced internationally, wine that at its most prosaic is served as a pub glass of medium red. The wine was silvery in the mouth, elegant, light and refreshing; whatever my preconceptions of drinking such a workmanlike grape variety, they were dashed. This was a stylish, attractive wine that was perfectly reflected in the labels that adorn Saint-Lo's bottles: elegant and mysterious line figures drawn by his sister Justine. I asked him about their inspiration. "They could be based on a conversation the two of us have just had. The wine is not really the subject," he said.
A friend of Saint-Lo, who was staying in Berrie to learn the finer points of production shared in the tasting. I asked her if she thought the atmosphere of the place was contained in the wine. Certainly, it had a flintiness of character. "How could it not?" she replied. "You can taste these stone walls in the glass." We briefly discussed the current position of natural wine, the ubiquity of the phrase as a hashtag and the regular stream of posts on Instagram of the orange-hued wine associated with Georgia. She was dismissive. "That has nothing to do with any of this," she said, pointing towards a second press that was being emptied of its "cake", a compressed half metre of grapes that lay like the stump of a tree at its base. By a vaguely enforced law, this is a by-product destined for the pharmaceutical industry, in which the now thoroughly crushed grapes are used as a base flavour for medicines or are blended on an industrial scale with other surplus fruit in the production of eau de vie. Instead, Saint-Lo uses them to fertilise his hectares of wines, which are divided into parcels of grape varieties. Like all the producers we met, he prunes, tends and harvests by hand, although the Saint-Lo vineyards were unique in having the grass rows between the grapes maintained by the hoofs of horses, which are less compacting of the soil than machinery.
Whatever cost natural wine incurs to the drinker, whether by bottle or glass, its makers have invested levels of expertise and time incapable of realising an adequate return. This is a drink made by people for whom wine is a vocation. Perhaps "slow wine", or "handmade wine" better define the attention to detail, labour, love, bloody-mindedness and round-the-clock care that goes into producing a bottle of Saint-Lo's cabernet franc. "At the moment my wine is drunk in Copenhagen, which I am happy about," he said. "But my wish is one day my neighbours, the people of this village, would drink my wine."
The night before our visit to Saint-Lo, we had driven to the other end of the Loire to Lunotte, the house of the enigmatic Christophe Foucher situated in a hamlet beyond the town of St Aignan, and the name with which he labels his wine. In common with many producers, Foucher has no website or social media presence and is hard to reach by phone; according to Wright he can often take up to a month, or longer, to respond to an email.
In contrast to the improvised, almost occupational presence of Saint Lo in Berrie. Lunotte evokes the timelessness of La France Profonde. A rabbit stew that would eventually be eaten long after midnight was cooking in a wood-fired range, into which Foucher intermittently fed hand-sawn logs in order to maintain its temperature.
The yard outside was littered with wine-making paraphernalia and equipment, including a small vintage tractor, and led to an outhouse. We walked carefully through the darkness of a cloudy night in the countryside, picking our way over the flagstones and uneven steps that led to its door.
The building was originally built as a barn, a place for a smallholder to keep their pigs and geese. A row of fermentation tanks ran along one side of the wall and a few barrels were stacked at its other end next to a set of small stone steps. These ended at a small gap at ground level, through which livestock had once made their way. With a little effort we jerked our bodies through this hole and came out its other side into a smaller, low-ceilinged room, roughly six by four metres, in which every available space was occupied by barrels. The walls and ceiling were covered in a mould that had spread, with Foucher's encouragement, across the barrels' surface, as their enzymes act as an airborne ambient yeast that aids fermentation. The room was lit by a single bare light – the switch looked pre-War – and in this borderline claustrophobic environment, one whose ecosystem was palpable, almost breathable, Foucher produced his voleur de vin, a large pipette-like instrument about the length of a squash racket. And as he moved between his barrels, nimbly removing the large corks wedged tightly on their upturned sides, he drew in their contents and started liberally filling our glasses with his wines.
Bottles produced in Foucher's section of the Loire Valley are typically classified as AOC Touraine, which he eschews for the plainer Vin De France designation. We tried each of the wines from the five-and-a-half hectares he farms, which contain vines of sauvignon blanc, gamay de bouze and cabernet franc that in some cases are almost 80 years old.
If the wines Saint Lo produces have a mercurial, airy elegance, Foucher's wines tasted of the earth. I felt as though I were drinking the definition of terroir, a wine made within a short walk of the vineyards in which the grapes grew. The sauvignon, which was neither buttery nor floral, but cloudy, brought to mind day breaking over sun-dappled leaves in late May. The gamay, so often associated with the juiciness of beaujolais, suggested a rich autumnal fruitiness, a fruit aching to be harvested and tasted. Perhaps it was the surroundings: the mould-infested barn, the paysan cottage, the piles of logs, the rabbit waiting in the oven, but these wines tasted ageless, as if they could be set down at a table and drunk by a character from Flaubert or had once been shared by members of the Resistance meeting in a similarly clandestine location on a similarly cloudy night.
We manoeuvred ourselves back into the other half of the outhouse. Foucher suggested we try some of his menu pineau, a grape indigenous to the Touraine that had almost become extinct and was grown in only a few parcels locally and known colloquially as arbois. The first of the two barrels tasted exceptionally fresh, it was easy to imagine working one's way through several bottles over the course of a long summer evening. Among natural wine cognoscenti the technical term for this sort of light, easy-drinking wine is "glou glou". We were drinking a wine in its youth. The tasting from the second barrel, which was a year older, revealed a far richer wine, one that carried the historical weight of an almost forgotten grape variety. It had an intensity and depth that suggested some secret knowledge. For the first time on this trip I realised the extent to which unpredictability is part of the appeal of natural wine and of the sense of alchemy at work. By allowing time to run its course, Foucher had produced two separate wines from the same obscure grape.
The following morning, we wandered among the Lunotte vineyards. As we walked among the knotty wood of the vines, Foucher seemed to know the contours of each stem. I noticed his hands were like resin, translucent and smooth. With his index finger he picked away at what looked like a dust of dry rot, a fungus that had established itself in the middle of a stem, then smiled, indicating that the vine had recovered by pointing to some new growth. During previous years he had not always been so fortunate. In 2012 his harvest was decimated by bad weather and the yield was sufficient to produce only one single barrel of wine. Rather than buy in grapes from other vignerons, Foucher accepted his fate. "That year, no wine for sale," he said, with a smile, as he described his lowest ebb to date as a producer.
At the edge of the crop he instinctively looked down, inspecting the ground for mushrooms, kicking at the occasional stem. "That one's yellow," he said, indicating what looked to me like a field mushroom. "Best not to go near." It was a glimpse of his life spent hour upon hour alone in these fields. "I am an artisan," he had said the night before as we ate the rabbit. "I do not want for anything more. But nor do I want anything less."
Foucher's wines are popular in Japan, the country that remains the largest market for natural wine and where its viniculture of fermentation, hand crafting and almost monastic dedication developed an early cult following. The final producers Wright and I visited were Kenji and Mai Hodgson, a couple based in Anjou in the lower Loire. Their home was reminiscent of the illustrations of turn-of-the century family houses in primary school French textbooks, from the era when such things existed. At its rear was the less typical but now familiar assemblage of press, fermentation tanks and barrels that constituted their chai.
Kenji, originally from British Columbia and whose mother is third-generation Japanese-Canadian, had learned his wine-making craft working at the Coco Wine And Farmery in Tochigi, Japan. He and Mai had intended to produce wine in Canada before a compétence et talents visa, a scheme that allows non-EU skilled workers to move to France, allowed them to emigrate to Anjou and establish themselves as vignerons.
We drove the short distance to one of the Hodgsons' parcels, which was bordered by a high red brick wall, behind which the grounds of a chateau were visible. The word chateau carries an authority and authenticity of which AOC committees doubtless approve. This style of building is ever present, either as a drawing or photograph, on the majority of labels placed on bottles of French wine. We ate grapes that had been missed or camouflaged during harvest as we made our way along through the vines. I asked the Hodgsons when they thought they might begin pruning. They described their winter days in the vineyards, arriving at the crop together before dispersing to either end of the parcel. A portable stove, a large rusty wheelbarrow-type object, would be positioned at the end of the rows in order to burn the cuttings. Occasionally they might call out to one another, but otherwise they would work in silence, their breath visible in the air. The entire pruning process might take three to four weeks, its exact timing set by the waxing of the moon, when the water table is low and moisture in the vines is largely absent.
Back at their house we began tasting several of their wines. The labels were printed yellow and showed two birds holding either end of a grape-laden vine in their beaks. It was a perfect image that evoked the sense of contentedness and quiet industry that permeated their house and vineyards. The Hodgsons' wines are classified Vin De France but christened with esoteric names. One of the first we tried was a chenin blanc named Luchini after the 1997 single by Camp-Lo, one of the last breakout hits of the golden era of hip-hop. Luchini had been perfectly christened. It tasted fresh, a little abstract and was strong on flavour. It tasted as well of the grapes we had picnicked on while walking in the parcel, from vines once used in the industrial viniculture that depends on the AOC system and words such as "chateau" to provide its identity. Now the same vines provide grapes for wines named after relatively obscure hip-hop jams. Blue Flowers, a previous Hodgson cuvée, took its title from a celebrated track on an underground rap classic by Dr Octagon. The wine itself was a pétillant naturel, or pét-nat, a sparkling natural wine made using the méthode ancestrale now coming back into acceptability. The technique means the addition of secondary yeasts or sugars is unnecessary. It is a production style that was pioneered by monks in 16th-century Limoux, which predates the méthode champenoise used in the sugar-heavy manufacture of champagne and especially prosecco. Kenji opened another of his bottles. He waved the glass in his hand in the direction of the kitchen table, well stocked with the fruits of his and Mai's labour. "A big part of all this," he said with a broad smile, "is the geekiness."
For large parts of the wine establishment, bottles such as Blue Flowers remain anathema. Masters Of Wine and some of the more traditional sommeliers claim natural wine is prone to "mousiness", a savoury, biscuity taste that appears as a result of harmless bacterial infection and which climate change is making more difficult to control. They are equally wary of its vignerons' propensity for hand-drawn or roughly designed labels, carrying little information other than esoteric names. But for the initiated, to look at such a label, then uncork a bottle of natural wine is to begin a journey through each glass, towards the place of its creation. To drink wine that was made by the light of the moon, by people who seem to have no choice but to lead secretive lives among their vines, contented in their gentle mania for producing unique, characterful, handmade vintages, is a centuries old but also very contemporary pleasure.
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The French Swimming Federation (FFN) announced in a press release that it held interviews for the position of National Technical Director (DTN) for the national team last Friday, January 23 with the three remaining candidates: Roxana Maracineanu, Jacques Favre, and Philippe Hellard.
Roxana Maracineanu – If selected, Maracineanu would be the first woman DTN in the history of French swimming. And how fitting. Maracineanu, who is a native of Bucharest, became France's first female world champion when she won the 200 back in 1998 at the World Championships. Although she has never served as a technical director, she believes her management experience, as well as her history in the sport, have equipped her to do the job.
Jacques Favre – Favre is the director of the sports commission of the Cercle des Nageurs de Marseille, the club that houses Florent Manaudou, Fabien Gilot, Fred Bousquet, Camille Lacourt, Mehdy Metella, Grégory Mallet, and Giacomo Perez-Dortona, amongst others.
Philippe Hellard – Hellard runs the research department at the French Federation. As such, he has published numerous reports on the physiology of swimmers, treating such topics as swimming injuries, the effects of taper, and threshold saturation, amongst others.
The National Technical Director position has been vacant since September 2014, when then-DTN Lionel Horter abruptly resigned. The FFN immediately invited interested parties to submit applications and by November 9 and hoped to interview the top 3-5 candidates during the French Short Course Nationals in Montpellier at the end of November.
On November 25, Federation president Francis Luyce announced that 17 people had submitted resumes but warned that the new DTN must meet certain conditions: he or she must (1) live in Paris, (2) get along with the FFN president, and (3) commit to 10 years. Luyce told the press, "We are two years away from the Olympic Games in Rio. The new DTN can't come in and change everything. We still have our plans for Tokyo in 2020 and Paris in 2024. I want to be very clear about that. It's a condition sina qua non that the person we chose will be with us for ten years."
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Hopefully Roxana will be selected.
At least she will not comment world championships or olympic games on French public television anymore. 🙄
And Francis Luyce: "We still have our plans for Tokyo in 2020 and Paris in 2024."
Well, I didn't know Paris was already chosen! 🙂
The only thing I'm sure is that Mr Luyce will still be the Federation president in 2024.
He's president since 1993!
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Q: Swimmer survival plot ggplot_Events color coded by time duration One question regarding the time axis for Swimmer waterfall plot.
I generated the swimmer plot using the code below>

However, I would like to have the bars for each subject colored by the responseType (rather than "Stage") based on the responseStartTime and responseEndTime duration from the dataset. Please suggest how I can define the color by responseType for the duration of that response.
Thanks!

Source: (http://rpubs.com/alexiswl/swimmer).
Data code
    library(magrittr)
library(stringi)
library(readr)   # Reading in the dataset
library(ggplot2) # Viewing the dataset
library(forcats) # Sorting factors
library(RColorBrewer) # Plot colours
library(dplyr, warn.conflicts=FALSE)   # Manipulating the dataframes
library(purrr, warn.conflicts=FALSE)   # Manipulating dataframe metadata
library(zoo, warn.conflicts=FALSE)     # Filling in  NA values
library(reshape2) # Reformmating dataframes

library(editData)
df.data <- df
swimmer_file = "https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/files/2014/06/Swimmer_93.txt"
col.names = c("subjectID", "stage", "startTime", "endTime",
              "isContinued", "responseType", "responseStartTime", "responseEndTime", "Durable")
df <- readr::read_lines(swimmer_file) %>%
  # Split by line recursion (\r\n)
  stringi::stri_split(fixed="\r\n", simplify=TRUE) %>%
  # Take only lines starting with a number (sample id)
  .[grepl("^[0-9]+", .)] %>%
  # Remove spaces from response column
  gsub(pattern="\\sresponse", replacement="_response") %>%
  # Remove spaces from stage column
  gsub(pattern="Stage\\s",  replacement="Stage_") %>%
  # Some lines missing 'Stage' and 'isContinued' column.
  # Replace any set of 8 or more spaces with ' . '
  gsub(pattern="\\s{8,}", replacement=' . ') %>%
  # Split strings by spaces, do not include empty strings as columns
  stringi::stri_split(fixed=" ", simplify=TRUE, omit_empty=TRUE) %>%
  # Convert to dataframe
  as.data.frame(stringsAsFactors=FALSE) %>%
  # Set the column names
  purrr::set_names(col.names) %>%
  # We need to do some more cleaning up of the dataframe
  # Convert all . to NAs
  dplyr::na_if(".") %>%
  # Fill NAs in Stage column
  dplyr::mutate(stage=zoo::na.locf(stage)) %>%
  # Turn isContinued into boolean
  dplyr::mutate(isContinued=dplyr::if_else(isContinued=="FilledArrow", TRUE, FALSE, missing=FALSE)) %>%
  # Convert stage variable to factor, remove underscore
  dplyr::mutate(stage = as.factor(gsub(pattern="_", replacement=" ", x=stage))) %>%
  # Remove underscore from response types
  dplyr::mutate(responseType = gsub("_", " ", responseType)) %>%
  # Change Durable from character to numeric
  dplyr::mutate(Durable = as.numeric(Durable)) %>%
  # Change Time variables from character to numeric
  dplyr::mutate_at(vars(dplyr::ends_with("Time")), as.numeric)

df.shapes <- df %>%
  # Get just the subject and response time columns
  dplyr::select(subjectID, responseType, responseStartTime) %>%
  # Melt the data frame, so one row per response value.
  reshape2::melt(id.vars=c("subjectID", "responseType"), value.name="time") %>%
  # Remove na values
  dplyr::filter(!is.na(time)) %>%
  # Remove response variable column
  dplyr::select(-variable) %>%
  # Add 'start' to the end of the response type
  dplyr::mutate(responseType=paste(responseType, "start", sep=" "))

# Add the end time for each
df.shapes %<>%
  dplyr::bind_rows(df %>%
                     dplyr::select(subjectID, endTime, responseEndTime, isContinued) %>%
                     # Place endtime as response endtime if not continuing and responseEndTime is NA
                     dplyr::mutate(responseEndTime=dplyr::if_else(!isContinued & is.na(responseEndTime),
                                                                  endTime, responseEndTime)) %>%
                     dplyr::select(-endTime, -isContinued) %>%
                     # Remove other existing NA responseEndTimes
                     dplyr::filter(!is.na(responseEndTime)) %>%
                     dplyr::mutate(responseType="Response end") %>%
                     dplyr::rename(time=responseEndTime))

# Append on the durable column
df.shapes %<>%
  dplyr::bind_rows(df %>%
                     dplyr::select(subjectID, Durable) %>%
                     dplyr::filter(!is.na(Durable)) %>%
                     dplyr::mutate(responseType="Durable") %>%
                     dplyr::rename(time=Durable))
# Add on the arrow sets
df.shapes %<>%
  dplyr::bind_rows(df %>%
                     dplyr::select(subjectID, endTime, isContinued) %>%
                     dplyr::filter(isContinued) %>%
                     dplyr::select(-isContinued) %>%
                     dplyr::mutate(responseType="Continued Treatment") %>%
                     dplyr::mutate(endTime=endTime+0.25) %>%
                     dplyr::rename(time=endTime))

responseLevels = c("Complete response start", "Partial response start",
                   "Response end", "Durable", "Continued Treatment")

# Convert responseType to factor and set the levels
df.shapes %<>%
  dplyr::mutate(responseType = factor(responseType, levels=responseLevels)) %>%
  # Order by response type
  dplyr::arrange(desc(responseType))

unicode = list(triangle=sprintf('\u25B2'),
               circle=sprintf('\u25CF'),
               square=sprintf('\u25A0'),
               arrow=sprintf('\u2794'))

Plot code:
  df %>%
  # Get just the variables we need for the base of the plot
  dplyr::select(subjectID, endTime, stage) %>%
  # Remove duplicate rows
  dplyr::distinct() %>%
  # Order subject ID by numeric value
  dplyr::mutate(subjectID=forcats::fct_reorder(.f=subjectID, .x=as.numeric(subjectID), .desc = TRUE)) %>%
  # Pipe into ggplot
  ggplot(aes(subjectID, endTime)) + # Base axis
  geom_bar(stat="identity", aes(fill=factor(stage))) + # Bar plot. Colour by stage
  geom_point(data=df.shapes, # Use df.shapes to add reponse points
             aes(subjectID, time, colour=responseType, shape=responseType), size=5) +
  coord_flip() + # Flip to horizonal bar plot.
  scale_colour_manual(values=c(RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(3, "Set1")[1:2], # Add colours
                               rep("black", 3))) + # min of brewerpal is three but we only need 2.
  scale_shape_manual(values=c(rep(unicode[["triangle"]], 2), # Add shapes
                              unicode[["circle"]], unicode[["square"]], unicode[["arrow"]])) +
  scale_y_continuous(limits=c(-0.5, 20), breaks=0:20) + # Set time limits
  labs(fill="Disease Stage", colour="Symbol Key", shape="Symbol Key",  # Add labels
       x="Subject ID ", y="Months since diagnosis",
       title="Swimmer Plot",
       caption="Durable defined as subject with six months or more of confirmed response") +
  theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5), # Put title in the middle of plot
        plot.caption = element_text(size=7, hjust=0)) # Make caption size smaller

A: Sorry for the late answer but I think it's a quite interesting question, so even if you don't need anymore, I post a solution. I hope I understood what you wanted.
Basically, you have to have a different approach and use geom_segment().
If you do that the solution is quite straightforward.
The only problem is that you didn't make your goal explicit: for example, what do you want to do in case you have a NA for the responseEndTime value or do you want to keep or not the info you're showing in your bar graph so I had to make arbitrary choices but you should be able to figure out how to get what you want from this solution:
df %>%
  # Add a few variables to your df
  dplyr::select(subjectID, stage, responseStartTime, responseEndTime,
                endTime, responseType) %>%
  # Remove duplicate rows
  dplyr::distinct() %>%
  # Order subject ID by numeric value
  dplyr::mutate(
          subjectID=forcats::fct_reorder(.f=subjectID,
                                         .x=as.numeric(subjectID),
                                         .desc = TRUE)) %>%
  # Pipe into ggplot
  ggplot(aes(subjectID, endTime)) + # Base axis
  # substitute geom_bar by a geom_segment
  geom_segment(aes(x = 0, xend = endTime, y=subjectID,
                   yend=subjectID, color = factor(stage)),
               size = 12) +
  # Substitue geom_point with another geom_segment for the responseTime part
  geom_segment(aes(x = responseStartTime, xend = responseEndTime,
                   y=subjectID, yend=subjectID, color = responseType),
               size =8) +
  # don't need coord_flip anymore
  # probably could improve this part but you got the idea
  scale_colour_manual(values=c("#FFFFFF", "#000000",
                               "#F8766D", "#C49A00", "#53B400",
                               "#00C094")) +
  # the y scale is now the x scale...
  scale_x_continuous(limits=c(-0.5, 20), breaks=0:20) + # Set time limits
  labs(fill="Disease Stage", colour="Symbol Key",
       shape="Symbol Key",  # Add labels
       y="Subject ID ", x="Months since diagnosis",
       title="Swimmer Plot",
       caption="Durable defined as subject with six months or more of confirmed response") +
  theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
        plot.caption = element_text(size=7, hjust=0))

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Q: RecyclerView onItemClick not working, always show nullpointerexception I checked full of Stackoverflow but i can't find solution, May be this is duplicate question but please help me.
i create Interface in Adapter:-
public interface OnItemClickListener {
    void onItemClick(int positon, AdvSearchList_Model item, View view);
}
public MyMatches_New_Adapter(Context context, ArrayList<AdvSearchList_Model> dataList, OnItemClickListener listener) {
    this.context = context;
    this.listItem = dataList;
    this.listener = listener;
}

In onBindViewHolder:-
final AdvSearchList_Model item = listItem.get(position);
        myholder.setIsRecyclable(false);
        myholder.bind(position, item, listener);

Call bind function:-
public void bind(final int position, final AdvSearchList_Model item, final MyMatches_New_Adapter.OnItemClickListener listener) {
                itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    listener.onItemClick(position, item, v);
                }
            });
            user_pic_circle_layout.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    listener.onItemClick(position, item, v);
                }
            });}

and set onItemClick in Fragment Class:-
adapter1 = new MyMatches_New_Adapter(context, listItem, new MyMatches_New_Adapter.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(int positon, final AdvSearchList_Model item, View view) {
            switch (view.getId()) {
                case R.id.user_pic_circle_layout:
                    Toast.makeText(context, "COMMENT Working", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    break;
            }
        }
    });

When i click on Item then its give me NullPointerException. Please do the needfull.

A: add this method in your adapter -
 public void setOnItemListener(Context context, ArrayList<AdvSearchList_Model> dataList, OnItemClickListener listener) {
    this.context = context;
    this.listItem = dataList;
    this.listener = listener;
 }

access your fragment -
adapter1.setOnItemListener(context, listItem, new MyMatches_New_Adapter.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(int positon, final AdvSearchList_Model item, View view) {
            switch (view.getId()) {
                case R.id.user_pic_circle_layout:
                    Toast.makeText(context, "COMMENT Working", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    break;
            }
        }
    });

A: you must down cast context in your adapter class to your listener field not pass listener to your adapter from outer class , do this in try catch like this :
    private Context mContext;
    private OnItemClickListener mListener;
    public MyMatches_New_Adapter(Context context, ArrayList<AdvSearchList_Model> dataList) {
       this.mContext = context;
       this.listItem = dataList;
        try {
               this.mListener = (OnItemClickListener ) context;
      } catch (ClassCastException e) {
               throw new ClassCastException(context.toString() +
          " must implement OnItemClickListener ");
      }

 }

you must implement this interface in your activity like a callback
try this if don't work tell us more details.


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