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Once upon a time in middle school, I came out to my mother as bisexual. Like many girls that age who have non-hetero tendencies, I had a mother who didn’t buy it. It’s normal to experiment with other girls, she told me. She clearly thought I was having make-out sessions with my girlfriends and was […]
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In my daily trawling of the internet in my pyjamas, a few weeks ago I saw that Kim Gordon has published a memoir. But my initial excitement for this release died an untimely death because, much to the joy of all bored journalists across the globe, she’d thrown in a few insults to spice it […]
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In 1908, a year after she joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (better known as the militant suffragettes) and became the Birmingham branch’s paid secretary, my great-great-great aunt Hilda Burkitt appeared before a court in Wolverhampton charged with preventing a police officer from entering a political meeting. While onlookers laughed, the judge told her […]
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Before I begin, a disclaimer: sport is not my thing. For most of my time at school, I had a highly unoriginal excuse to get out of it (three periods a month was my personal best.) So I’m not exactly the kind of person you’d describe as ‘active’. Nor am I the type to shop […]
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In 1167 a sixty-five year old woman died in Rouen. She left behind a son on the English throne – which she had been instrumental in securing for him – and in so doing established the Plantagenet house that would rule England for nearly three hundred years. She would also remain for another four hundred […]
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I recently inspected my hairline and I found a strand that may or may not have been a grey hair. I squinted and tilted my head towards the mirror, catching a glimpse of my tongue curling unattractively over my top lip as I concentrated as much as possible. In the end, I plucked it from […]
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Recently, I joined the gym. And I was slightly worried about it. I was worried that I would use it a couple of times and then peter out in favour of bed and biscuits, thus wasting £45.50 every month (discount price!). I was worried that by joining I would start to value my achievements in […]
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It was summer break, and my husband and I were going to Hawaii for the holiday. It was at one of those resorts with the all-inclusive-never-ending-mimosa package, and we had both had one hell of a year. Yippee! It was finally the day we were to catch our flight, so of course, I had the […]
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Those days when you’re wearing the wrong knickers. Those days. Itching, hoiking, pulling, pinging — there’s no peace to be found in bad pants. A woman in the wrong knickers is a woman disarmed. So tell me this: on a day when you’re meant to be looking and feeling good, why are you planning to […]
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I would like to be known as the pharmaceutical industry’s Official Worst Nightmare. Why, you ask? Because as I am typing I can feel tiny popping sensations in my brain, cleverly called “brain zaps” in the medical community. Breathing is an effort. My heart is desperately trying to escape my chest. That’s not an attempt […]
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Right now I’m single and every time I need a poo, I cherish the simplicity of wiping my bum and pulling my pants up, instead of jumping in the shower for a furtive bum wash. God, it’s a luxury. If I get skiddies in my knickers, I celebrate their presence as a brown striped flag […]
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Let me introduce myself: my name is Shannon. I am a 22 year old White-Asian woman from England studying a PhD at university. In reality, this means I’m busting my butt off doing experiments from nine ‘til god-knows-when, nearly every day of the week, for three and a half years of my life. Not because […]
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