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The Menstrual Cup As A Gauge For Wellbeing
The menstrual cup adventures and misadventures continue. It was to be expected. The menstrual system is a complex ones full of intricate levers and pulleys and hormones and what-not. All things considered, it really is an engineering marvel that works pretty much like clockwork for at least 30 years, adapts for pregnancy and sex life. […]
Why Men Need To Get Quiet
Yes, that’s what I said. Yes, all men. Yes, as an entire gender. Notice how much male-generated noise there is in the world? In politics, in art, in the media, in popular culture, in coffeeshops and bars and drawing rooms and boardrooms and bedrooms. There are more men in the world and they are saying […]
Breaking Up With The RomCom
I have been a fan of romcoms since it became possible for me to choose what to watch. I rejoiced when the Romedy Now channel showed up on my set. A 24 x 7 channel dedicated to funny, hopeful stories, YAY! But of course. The romcom is the fairytale of our times. And it is […]
Make That One Water
This blogpost was triggered by this article: Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink This December, I passed another milestone on my life journey and quit alcohol altogether. I didn’t grow up in a culture that normalised drinking. But I did grow up in one that taught me […]
I Think I’ve Outgrown Men
I met someone last week. After years of settling for insipid encounters with sexist 30/40-somethings and incomplete conversations with scared 20-somethings, I connected with someone close to my age. This microgeneration that I’m told I belong to – the Xennials or people born between 1977 to 1985 – we’re a rare species and most of us […]
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