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TAYLOR SWIFT SMASHES THE ‘SINGLE’ STIGMA
Taylor Swift just can’t win, can she? If she’s not being painted by the media as some crazy serial dater, she’s being lavished with sympathy: the poor dear, why doesn’t she have a boyfriend? But in a...
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YOU ARE NOT YOUR ANXIETY
Discovering I had a mental illness was a monumental experience for me. Because I was young, and also because of the lack of discussion around mental health, until then I thought that fear and panic was...
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A LOVE LETTER TO BOOBS
A short collection of my breast (!) memories, in chronological order: Stuffing socks down my top and nonchalantly asking my nanny if she noticed anything different about me. Walking down the hall in...
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PLEASE, STOP CALLING WOMEN ‘CRAZY’
This is for the next time you’re hovering your thumb over the ‘send’ button of a text message to a dude and fretting that he’ll think you’re ‘crazy’. Today it struck me how many times that word pops up...
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WHEN WOMEN DON’T WANT CHILDREN
When women today decide to remain childless they face the same, tired line of questioning as they did in decades past. The idea that a woman could choose to remain childless and be content in that...
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A DATING MIXER FOR FEMINISTS
I love dating. The excitement of meeting a new person, catching a look in their eye, figuring out that you love the same album or movie or country – it’s such a rush when a perfect stranger can make...
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FINDING MY G-SPOT ON TINDER
I’ve never really dated. In high school boys didn’t look at me that way and I was always too scared to make a move. My first and only real boyfriend was an older man I’d met online. In the 90s, online...
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STEPHEN HAWKING’S CURE FOR A BROKEN HEART
Young women nursing a broken heart have been offered advice from the unlikeliest of relationship experts: renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. Professor Hawking appeared on stage at the Sydney Opera...
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CAN IKEA FIX YOUR RELATIONSHIP?
Don’t be fooled by the happy families scattered strategically throughout each and every IKEA catalogue; the grim reality of buying and assembling the Swedish-designed, flatpack furniture is not all...
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I WAS AN UGLY CHILD
You couldn’t dress it up – I was an ugly child. Not mousey, not average and not even interesting-looking; just plain ugly. Among the many (many) things that didn’t help were my fringe, braces and bad...
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View ArticleTHIS IS WHAT MY ABORTION WAS LIKE
I was 22, had a good job and was in a long-term relationship when I had an abortion. It started like I expect it does for everyone – my period... The post THIS IS WHAT MY ABORTION WAS LIKE appeared...
View ArticleSTEP THE HELL OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE!
We’ve all heard the famous Neale Donald Walsh quote: “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”. For a long time when I heard or saw this phrase somewhere... The post STEP THE HELL OUT OF YOUR...
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Making your own clothes is the best. Once you get a hang of it (and I promise you that it’s not hard, I’m an entirely self-taught sewer – thank you, YouTube tutorials!), you get total control over the...
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