“What makes you vulnerable, makes you beautiful” Brene Brown Comedian, Zahra Barri, reflects on the lies she has told men over the years and makes a resolution to be more truthful to them from here on now.I pride myself on telling the truth. My therapist says: “The Truth Will Set You Free….” “I mean, unless you’re Bill...
Comedian Zahra Barri gives advice on the most effective ways to ask for money.I’ve noticed a lot of women writing into magazines asking the question, “How do I ask my boss for a pay rise?” which makes a nice change from the usual, ‘How do I please my boyfriend in the bedroom?” The advice is...
Comedian, Zahra Barri pays a special homage to her favourite magazines whilst warning us of the toxicity of others ‘Sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more’ Carrie Bradshaw Sex and The City Don’t worry Carrie, no one at Vogue ever eats a proper meal either. This iconic line...
With the Season Finale of Brexit looming it got me thinking: what’s the most racist thing I’ve ever done? ‘Racism’. It’s very much a buzz term at the moment. Along with ‘woke’, ‘ghosting’ and ‘smashed avocado’. It’s known to Millennials and Generation X as the darker sister of ‘xenophobia’ and the un pc grandmother of...
I totally ‘get’ why some people refuse to believe that Michael Jackson was a prolific pedophile. He was always so nice to children. He built a Peter Pan style theme park in his back garden, for example. He hosted totally awesome slumber parties where you could build forts and play as much Nintendo as you wanted, (one kid’s...
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Zahra reflects on the implications of selling sex on TV. Someone asked me the other day which one I am out of ‘Sex & The City’ and I said, “I think I’m The Sex.” It turns out they meant the HBO show that ran from 1998 – 2002 and starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall...
The popularity of the Netflix show, ‘Marie Kondo: Tidying Up’ has caused a sudden influx of people clutching hold of their possessions and asking themselves ‘does this bring me joy?’ If it does, Kondo advises us to keep it, if it doesn’t then she urges us to throw it out. I ‘Marie Kondo’ed’ my underwear drawer the other day...
He’s not naughty, he’s artistic. Autistic? No artistic. A great way of getting away with bad behaviour is not apologising for it but to instead, mysteriously insinuate that it was all a dramatic piece of ‘performance art’. I got this idea from reading Lena Dunham’s interview in ‘The Cut’. She came across as a bit of...
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