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Ever watched Revolutionary Road?
I have. I watched it on a cold winter’s day, safe in the theatre from the cold outside. I…
My First Love Was Books as a Child
Having my period for the first time was a bittersweet experience. I was thirteen and three quarters and desperate for its arrival: all my friends’…
Growing up in an urban setting (mostly in flats in the CBD of East London) I learned very early in my teens that I didn’t…
No, not me, this is not about my cancer, but about cancer attacking those parts of our bodies that define us as women; humans capable…
I stayed awake one night, with a big knife placed on my wrist. Yes, it was big, and it was also blunt. I was a…
All my life I believed my inability to curtail my eccentricity lead to my own isolation. I felt a shadow in a psychedelic world.
Jung…
My mom bought me a little fridge magnet once and it had two squirrels on it with the phrase “my family tree is full of…
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I think it was my 10th birthday party when I blew out the candles on my birthday cake and wished that I could…
My first time was awful. I was seventeen, not ready for sex by any standards, and I was distracted. When I wasn’t thinking ‘Ow!’, I…
A few mornings ago, I was completing my oral hygiene routine with the obligatory holding-the-mouthwash-in-your-mouth-no-matter-how-much-it-hurts ritual, when a thought hit me. With mouthwash, when it…