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All the clothes I’ve lost to men

06/04/18 / Charlie / Leave a comment / ALL

Content warning: references to suicide, sexual harassment, assault, rape, PTSD, intimate parner violence Against my better judgment, I recently decided to start watching the second season of “13 Reasons Why”. The first season was a struggle to watch and sparked off a massive panic attack and PTSD relapse – by

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I hate my chronic illness (and that’s ok)

09/09/16 / Charlie / Leave a comment / ALL, HEALTH

Ok so… After a really tough couple of months, and a very tough week last week, I want to open up and be honest about possibly my biggest secret. People will know me as a happy, optimistic (and hilariously funny) person. People regularly tell me that they “couldn’t do what I

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2016: The Year of the Cat Lady

04/13/16 / Charlie / 2 Comments / ALL
Tay Cat Lady

  At the start of this year I made a New Years resolution: I will not have a boyfriend this year. And I know how that sounds. A bit commitment-phobe. A bit mid-life crisis. A bit, dare I say, slutty. But it was actually much more than that. I’ve always been

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Thu, Oct 30, 2014 [Draft] No Subject

02/13/16 / Charlie / 1 Comment / ALL

I wanted to write a whole new post about this stuff, but there’s something symbolic about posting something I wrote and was too scared to put online a year and a half ago. I wrote this late one night in late October 2014 when I couldn’t sleep because I had all

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Go home Return of Kings, you’re drunk.

02/03/16 / Charlie / Leave a comment / ALL

Ok, here goes. I wasn’t going to get suckered into this, but here I am. You must all know the base story, so I looked further into it…   There is a worryingly large group of *straight men* (cos women and homosexuals aren’t welcome) who follow this fool, Roosh V, who created

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Get up, stand up.

12/17/15 / Charlie / Leave a comment / ALL

I brush on this topic time and time again, but with recent events it’s officially time to dedicate a full blog to it. Standing up to sexist abuse.   At the end of last month, popular Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford called out a man for sexist online abuse when

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Quite Contrary: The modern dating paradox

11/19/15 / Charlie / Leave a comment / ALL

I’ve recently rejoined the masses of singles in Auckland city and have quite quickly been reminded of just how complicated it is to navigate around. Especially as a “strong, independent woman”. I’m getting flashbacks of all my failed dates, potential lovers, Tinder weirdos, ex-boyfriends, and unrequited crushes and being reminded particularly

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Breaking up (with sugar) is hard to do

10/19/15 / Charlie / Leave a comment / ALL, HEALTH
Sugar

My dear, After a lot of thought, I decided after a long and beautiful relationship, it was time for us to take a break. We had some serious ups and downs and some really amazing times together. But it was starting to feel like a toxic relationship that was having

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My Particularly Tiresome Social Downer (PTSD)

10/13/15 / Charlie / 1 Comment / ALL
Panic Attack

Content warning: Rape, PTSD, sexual harassment, sexual assault, victim blaming. I didn’t know what a panic attack was the first few times I had them. They were completely out of the blue as they didn’t even come for almost 2 years after ‘the incident’ – around the middle of this

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Cunni-linguists: Singing about lady lovin’

10/01/15 / Charlie / Leave a comment / ALL
Azealia Banks

At any given time, if you scanned through my Spotify saved songs you’ll find at least one song about lady pleasure. Even better, they’re sung by women and usually about themselves. It’s no new information to say that in general, we’re inundated with songs about male pleasure and women giving men

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