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All the clothes I’ve lost to men

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

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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GUEST POST: The story of a ‘baby carrier’

03/01/17 / Kavita / Leave a comment /

“So I guess it’s any day now,” “Actually, I have another trimester to go.” “Really?!!?! Wow.” Yes, this was a real exchange that occurred in the kitchen at my workplace. Sounds innocent doesn’t it. I’ve been working as a digital professional for over 10 years, I am well read, I

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

09/09/16 / Charlie / Leave a comment /

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 /
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 /

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 /

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 /

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 /

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 /
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 /
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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