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Step into power, step into pyjamas

Comics, Dating, Life
June 13, 2019/Charlotte
I don’t know exactly when or how I stopped being insecure about how I look. It’s not that I learned to love my body and see all its flaws as beautiful. They’re not beautiful,...
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Blame the women, why don’t you

Dating, Life, Parenting
December 10, 2018/Charlotte
I’m angry and sad about Grace Millane, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the rhetoric that inevitably emerges every time a woman is hurt: that she somehow brought it on herself. And I...
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A half full glass of beer with pink undies in it.

Chewing on used serviettes

Dating, Humour, Life
October 6, 2018/Charlotte
This is how much I like butter. If you said, “would you rather give up butter for the rest of your life, or lose a toe?” I would say “you’re no friend of mine,”...
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On celibacy, fantasy, Jane the Virgin, feminism, and not dating

Dating, Life
March 15, 2018/Charlotte
Obsessively binge watching Jane the Virgin coincided with – and perhaps influenced – my decision to stop dating and stop having sex. Not dating when you are romantically-lonely is uncomfortable and dissonant. It means...
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A poem for men on dating apps, men on the street, men in bars

Dating, Poetry
February 20, 2018/Charlotte
I am not your hun. I am not your babe precious sexy what you up to now wet dream. You can’t fool me into thinking we are intimate. I don’t know who you are...
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The Worst Online Dating Opener I’ve Ever Received

Dating, Humour
September 11, 2017/Charlotte
I received the following message last night.  – Never have I wanted juice less. – I don’t know why killing rats is a redeeming feature. – Does this strategy ever work for getting dates?...
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The monsoon and the shudder

Dating, Life, Poetry
August 31, 2017/Charlotte
When your heart is a desert the smallest of loves can feel like a monsoon. You were not the avalanche or the earthquake you were not the biggest of loves but you were the...
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What To Wear When Meeting Your Ex

Dating, Humour
August 22, 2017/Charlotte
Meeting your ex in person after a breakup can be a confusing time, regardless of how it ended or at what point in the recovery process you’re at. Sometimes you might bump into them...
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The things I think I should do when I feel unworthy

Comics, Dating, Life
August 4, 2017/Charlotte
Not too long ago I got dumped, and after I’d cried, and told all my friends; after the shock started to fade (although I couldn’t breathe properly for days); after all that I thought...
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Octopuses, poetry, whiskey, and algorithms

Dating, Humour
July 21, 2017/Charlotte
Look, even if I got nothing else out of my dating experiences, this story would almost make it all worth it. It starts like most of my dating stories, with matching on Tinder. We’ll...
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Here’s what happens when you find out I’m a mother

Dating, Parenting
July 14, 2017/Charlotte
Apparently this is what happens when you become a mother: This is hard for most mothers, I think, when our complex identities become overshadowed by this one role. But it’s particularly challenging when you’re...
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