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pride
It’s Pride Month (I remain confused as to when it became a whole month, especially in the UK where many Pride events take place in July and August.) I…
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politics
I’ll be honest I’ve had problems meeting anyone recently as I’m struggling to be around anyone who supports lgbtq. Oh god. It was the first sentence of…
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maria
How to reliably trace the boundaries of grief, when grief itself is not an entity or thing with form or shape but instead a rupture, negative space…
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problem
Yesterday I sat alone at a French bistro in New York’s West Village and entered a deep and suffocating gloom about how unlikely it now seems to me that…
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victims
A captioned screenshot from Netflix’s Pamela, a love story has been doing the rounds on the IG stories of people I follow. It is a moment from the film…
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reckless abandon
A few years ago, I was due to spend the weekend at the countryside home of my then-boyfriend’s family. It was a trip with his friends and their young…
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strong
I had acupuncture for the first time. My osteopath (I can’t help but laugh at the idea of having an osteopath) was in the Marines, apparently. He was…
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