The Vagina Dialogues
“Say it again.” “I’ve said it like 10 times already. When can I stop?” “When you don’t have to ask if you can stop” said my friend. “It’s obviously making you uncomfortable so you have to say it as...
View ArticleThrough Hairless Eyelids
As I stared at myself in the mirror, I thought ‘You look like a pig. Pig-girl.’ My eye scrutinised the minutia of my face with a magnified mirror. Up close, it was quite obscene; pores, blemishes and...
View ArticleNo Doesn’t Always Mean No
As an avid watcher of every crime drama going, I see televised depictions of violence and abuse almost daily. Rape is always ugly, never deserved and usually the bad guy is put away by the end of the...
View ArticleThe Magnificence of “Me”– Loving Yourself
Just reading the title that I came up with for this post makes me want to throw up a little bit, or at the very least turn away in disgust. The author isn’t a person I would want to associate with. But...
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