A year ago I decided I would come off the pill. I started using it age 16 to regulate my period in hope that the period cramps would ease and the spots on my back would disappear. 8 years later, after researching eco-friendly ways to manage my period and finding linked articles about the contraceptive…
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Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies and my own feminist lie
If I’m to be honest, I haven’t been keeping up with my goal of reading more. I have read the occasional book, but so far I’m yet to be in a constant cycle of picking up a new read as soon as I’ve finished with one. In an attempt to start this routine, it’s about…
Worth the worry
I worry a lot. I either say “I’m worrying”, or people tell me I worry. The OED defines worry as: A troubled state of mind arising from the frets and cares of life; harassing anxiety or solicitude. I don’t think I was ever worried before I was 22. Sure I suffered short-term stress during my…
2018 Favourites
I am reflecting on the good things I’ve discovered and enjoyed in 2018, before I feel sad, sentimental and nostalgic like I usually do when the New Year is approaching. My top 10 films of the year will come later, in case I see something in the next week that makes its way onto my…