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The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye.

I’m not a person who likes to read ‘theory.’ I’m not upper class – I don’t need somebody telling me about the struggles people face in society, because I either experience them first-hand or witness them first-hand. I didn’t need Karl Marx to tell me that wealth needs redistributing (though it was nice to discover him as a teenager). I didn’t need Greta Thunberg to tell me that the planet is…

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#FreeBritneyAgain? How did we get here?

The Free Britney movement was at it’s most prominent in summer of 2021 when Britney’s 13 year conservatorship came to an end. Britney thanked her fans in court and in her first few social media posts after the hearing. She shared videos of her flying in a plane and driving her car – two things she wasn’t allowed to do prior. And now? Almost radio silence. I say almost, because her Instagram…

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Yes, p*rn is cheating. But that’s the least unethical thing about it!

Yes, p*rn is cheating. But that’s the least unethical thing about it!

“Do you think porn is cheating?” It’s almost became an ice-breaker in today’s society to ask this. Some think that if you say yes you are too jealous, some think that if you say no you’re too laid back. It’s a debate you never really win with. It’s also a really boring debate ignoring the real problem we should be talking it. How about instead, “do you think porn makes you a degenerate who fails…

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The worst part about being a vegan

The worst part about being a vegan

What do you miss the most now you’re vegan? Oh I don’t know, probably not having strangers fake concerned about my nutritional needs being met! So that’s what I miss the most. But what’s the worst part of being vegan? The worst part about being vegan is when someone finds out you’re vegan and for absolutely no reason starts defending their right to not being vegan. I didn’t ask???? Why are you…

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BPD & hyper-empathy

BPD & hyper-empathy

Growing up I always felt things so much stronger than others. I knew I did, because the way I would react to certain things, others didn’t react the …BPD & hyper-empathy

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A late diagnosis

I’ve spent my life being called forgetful, clumsy, careless, random (xD), distracting… I’ve spent my life being told to slow down, to sit down, to stop fidgeting, to finish what I’ve started… Each time someone said any of these to me I felt a pinch of sadness because none of it was intentional. Do you think I enjoy feeling like I’m going to burst if I don’t share this random anecdote or fact…

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International Women’s Day 2022

International Women’s Day 2022

Happy Women’s Day! To commemorate the day and celebrate women everywhere, I collected all my favourite quotes for reminding women just how powerful and boss they are 💛 “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” – Mary Shelley. “Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.” – Viola Davis. “I have learned over the years…

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Dopesick: A dystopian true story

Dopesick: A dystopian true story

Over Christmas I binge watched Dopesick on Disney+. And it takes a lot for me to binge watch because I have the attention span of a literal fish. It was really good. If you haven’t, I recommend watching it. Once I finished it, I looked it up to see if there was any talk of a second season. Only, this Google search instead informed me this was a true story. The series follows the beginning, the…

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The loss of a loved one

The loss of a loved one

Losing a loved one feels like complete numbness and experiencing every emotion at the same time. It feels like you too have died, but at the same time you’ve never felt so alive, so human. I feel like I’ve been hit by a car but at the same time the pain is tolerable. It’s tolerable because you know it’s right. Saying they have gone feels wrong too. Because they haven’t, not really. Their body…

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Why periods do my head in

Why periods do my head in

I was having a shower earlier today – on my period – and nearly fainted. My vision went funny and I just knew I needed to sit down before my friend found me bloody and naked and unconscious. And it hit me. Not everybody has to deal with this. And it did my head in. Me thinking about periods If you didn’t fall victim to being born from XX chromosomes then you have no idea how fucking annoying…

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My Bizarre Covid Weekend in Cologne

My Bizarre Covid Weekend in Cologne

We’ve all been there. Bored of mundane repetitive days, so we open up the RyanAir app and look at random flight routes and their prices. I did this one day in mid-August and found two tickets left for £20 return flights Manchester to Cologne. (Cologne-Bonn, I should say. Do people from Bonn get annoyed their airport is referred to everywhere as simply Cologne’s?) So I obviously booked these last…

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The never ending lockdown

The never ending lockdown

For most of last year, and a fair bit of this year (depending on where you’re living), we experienced life in lockdown. Lots of us felt trapped inside the same four walls – doing the same few activities a day. It was depressing, wasn’t it? Boring. Quite anxiety inducing. For some, it made life seem meaningless. But for the most part, that is over now. We are back to being fully autonomous…

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My Cat’s Chaotic Month

My Cat’s Chaotic Month

Have a cat, they said. They’re cute and easier maintenance than dogs, they said. (They is I.). For those who haven’t had the pleasure of being introduced to my cat yet. He is Sergio. He is 6 years old, overweight and mentally challenged. Serg. About 3 weeks ago he became very bloated and would hiss when you approached him (not that out of the ordinary tbf). Then my mum noticed he hadn’t peed…

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Top 5 Tips for going vegan

Top 5 Tips for going vegan

Going vegan can be challenging. But that’s not because it’s ‘unnatural’ or because of our supposedly massive teeth that are actually very small and could not rip through a living animal at all – it’s because most of us are raised on meat and dairy. It is our normal. Sometimes people have that 💡 moment where they think…actually, this is kind of weird, or actually…it hurts every single time I eat…

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Looking after a hamster for life

Looking after a hamster for life

On 7th July and 12th July respectively I lost my two dwarf hamster brothers. They were around 2 years and 2 months old, and therefore had a long and thrilling life. Apple and Bobbins Unfortunately, a lot of hamster owners never find their hamsters reaching their life expectancy of 2 years as they’re very vulnerable to health problems that deteriorate very quickly. Before Apple and Bobbins, I…

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#FreeBritney: how did we get here?

#FreeBritney: how did we get here?

Unless you’ve been living under an ignorance rock (of which I’d be somewhat jealous) you’ll know that Popstar, Britney Spears, has been fighting to get an end to her conservatorship that she’s been living under for 13 years. The conservatorship began after her public breakdown. So let’s start there. Let’s talk about Perez Hilton. Hilton is famous for being friends with some of the biggest…

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Lockdown Life Lessons

21st June should have been the UK’s 4th July – sort of. Freedom Day, as the media called it. Myself, along with most of the population of the British Isles were looking forward for this day. Everywhere being open like normal, rules on numbers of people allowed somewhere gone – a sense of a return of our own autonomy. But then the Tory government didn’t put any travel restrictions on Indian…