A lot has changed since we last met. For starters, I now have friends, and depression and insomnia. They make for a manageable combination. …
Intersectional feminism can take away the fear of coming out queer
My flatmate made an observation: “really feminist women”, he said, “seem to end up with men who look like they vote right wing”. His statement has given me somewhat of an existential crisis. Has that been my dating history? …
How many other women fall into the trap of serving a man’s female fantasy, only to be cast aside once she owns who she is?
My last relationship ended. Not because I had decided it, but because he ended things.
I wasn’t the person he thought I was, apparently. He wanted the ‘fun me’ back, the me who made stupid mugs of his face, who baked him cake on his birthday, who listened to his…
and I hadn’t seen it coming. I’d spent a month dealing with crippling anxiety knowing deep down that he would, but I hadn’t actually believed it would happen.
I feel winded. Like I was battling one wave, entirely unprepared for another which dunked me. Floundering in the depths of the…
I’ve been unemployed for a year, more or less. I’m a qualified secondary school English teacher, with a Master’s degree, a private school education, and no debt to speak of, and yet, here I am, unable to make my mark on the world.
Like many sheltered and well-off individuals, I…
I’ve always thought that I would be bad at relationships. As a teenager and in my early 20s, I felt that I would never be able to be honest with my partner, never allow myself to open up — I feared that no one would love me if they knew…
All white people are racist. The Covid lockdown has forced us into a veritable jail. All pigeons should be culled and taxidermied as trophies.
Got your attention? Great. Job done. No need for further comment. All you need to know is that I hate everything and everyone and the world…
La France est le pays avec les plus consommateurs de cannabis en Europe, et 44% de jeunes ont déjà goûté la drogue avant le terminale au lycée. Mais, quelles seraient les bonnes raisons pour légaliser le cannabis ?
Le cannabis est une drogue très controversée. Pour certains, le cannabis n’est…
Much attention has been paid to grade inflation resulting from school assessed grades for this year’s GCSE and A-level pupils. But just as worthy of concern is grade deflation from teachers who simply don’t like a student.
In pre-pandemic days, teachers who opted to mark official exam papers could not…
Il y a quelques raisons pour lesquelles les gens sont poussés a devenir cannibales. Il y a peut-être les raisons psychiatrique, la cause de la famine, ou, les tactiques de guerres. Mais, pourtant, ça ne fait pas si longtemps que les gens ont commencé a manger de la viande humaine.
