Two things I made

A brief emergence from a newborn trance.

Zeni Gibson, one of the women telling her story on Stalked.

A few weeks ago, I gave birth to a baby boy. He’s mottled, flaky, terrifyingly weak and so, so beautiful. Most of what I’m focused on right now is making him fatter with the milk I’m producing in a very mammalian fashion with my own body, and being as good to him and his sister as I can manage.

But for the past year or so I’ve been working on a different creative project that’s also recently come to fruition, and that’s a documentary about stalking. Stalked is a three-part series following three women who have been harassed, followed and tormented by impossibly horrible men—and come out the other side with their spirits and senses of humour intact. The trailer is here:

This is the first time I’ve dabbled in film & TV and my role on Stalked was Story Producer. It was a hugely gratifying experience, mostly because the women and crew were such excellent people to work with, but also because the topic is the same one I keep prodding in the rest of my journalistic work: the dark ways we treat and are treated by one another, and how we’re able to thrive anyway.

Stalked is hosted by Jazz Thornton, who shares her own stalking experience.

The series will launch on Sky Open on the 4^th of May, airing on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and all three episodes will be available for streaming on Neon from Monday 4^th.

Please check it out! I’m biased, obviously, but I think you’ll find it a very good watch indeed.

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