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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 think I know why people want to blame the victim. If it’s her “fault” a woman was raped or murdered then there are things you can do to make sure […]
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I was sitting outside a cafe and I watched as a pram fell over backwards, pulled down by a bag slung over the handle. I heard the sound of the toddler’s head hitting the concrete and then her scream, and the panic of her parents as they lifted the pram up and unbuckled her for cuddles. She was fine. There was no blood […]
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This one’s for you, America.
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When you’re a student and a solo mother, your budget for personal grooming is comparable to driving to the other side of town for a holiday instead of going to Thailand. Which is why I did something highly inadvisable, that carried an 85% chance of regret, if it even worked, which it probably wouldn’t, because my hair is naturally quite dark. I got some […]
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“Mama I had a dream about foxes and it was so scary and that’s why I don’t want to go to sleep!” Kids make up a bunch of excuses for not going to bed. It seems to be one of those classic things that almost all parents have to deal with. Fake thirst or hunger, elaborate tales of real or invented fears, needing to […]
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